Fat dancers challenge our body image ideals

Kate Champion has worked with fat activist Kelli Jean Drinkwater to bring larger-bodied performers to the stage.

<p>Image via www.sydneyfestival.org.au

Recent years have seen considerable discussion in the arts sector around the need for greater diversity on Australian stages. In Nothing to Lose, Kate Champion’s final work as Artistic Director for Force Majeure, that discussion is taken a step further through the participation and representation of larger-sized performers.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts