The power of the fat body on the scene
Fat Body; Fatphobia; Performing Arts.
Inspired byautoethnography as a theoretical-methodologicalperspective, this Master's in Performing Arts research
has the general objective of investigating the potency of the fat body in the scene, discussing the obstacles that make
itunfeasible, as well asits affirmative reverberations, with the intention of empowering more and more women-
actresses-fat and face the fatphobia that affects us, even in the theater. Amongthe theoretical references of this study
are Malu Jimenez (2020), Márcia Metz (2019), Fernanda Magalhães (2019), Denise Sant'anna (2001, 2016), as well
as Georges Vigarello (2012), Michel Foucault (1987), Judtih Butler (2002) and Janaína Leite (2017). Muchis said
that art has the power to transform. In this sense, this research proposes to the performing arts that they face
prejudice against the fat body, making the theater a place of freedom to experiment with the power of a fat body as it
is.