Fat Performance Network at Colchester Arts Centre
An unofficial Weight Stigma Conference fringe event, open to everyone.

‘Fat Contact’ Workshop
2pm – 4pm
Pay What You Can Afford
Appropriate only for people in larger bodies/fat people

Gillie will offer a practical dance workshop, continuing her research into the ways in which meaning is made by fat bodies coming into contact with one another. Inspired by sumo, slow dancing and when you blow a raspberry on a baby’s tummy, we’ll move with our fat flesh pressing, shoving, stroking, and holding another’s.

Jussara Belchior, Magdalena Hutter and Gillie Kleiman are pleased to host this workshop as part of a Fat Performance Network event at Colchester Arts Centre ahead of the Weight Stigma Conference at the University of Essex.

The Fat Performance Network grew out of a Live Art Development Agency DIY workshop about fat performance initiated by Gillie in 2020. Colchester Arts Centre was the partner for this project, but none of us ever went there, holding the activities online instead. This is an exciting opportunity for some of us to meet in person for the first time, do some fat performance stuff, and hang out.

Ju, Magdalena and Gillie will be presenting at the conference, but this is open to all fat performance people whether or not you’ll be at the conference.

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