CONTRAPESO: MANIFESTO CÊNICO DE UMA CORPA GORDA

Abstract

This master's dissertation is an autoethnographic research in the field of somaticperformative studies. The main question of this work is: How can stigmatizing symbology be re-signified scenically in order to highlight the potential and corporeal elements that define a body as fat, by denouncing, combating, contextualising and analysing social fatphobic violence? In order to deepen the experiences of the author's own fat body, the work draws from thoughts and narratives of other dissident corporealities, in the light of artistic, anthropological, sociological, historical and philosophical theories, to investigate, through artistic practices, some physical components - weight, fat, and fascia - as devices for creative and bodily activation for the scene. This practice-led research, based specifically on the SomaticPerformative Practice approach, was developed through creative laboratories and body techniques such as Authentic Movement, Body-Mind Centering (BMC), besides other performative programs. By asserting her fat identity and singularity, assuming herself as a corpa gorda (a fat female body) that challenges and disobeys a social normative system, the author discusses her creative process, presenting artistic strategies and methodologies that highlight the political aspects of a corpa gorda, through a scenic-performative experiment named ContraPeso.