• Fat Liberation * Empowering Community

    Body Home Fat Dance leads classes and creates performance centering our fat community. Our goal is to inspire joyful movement, connection with our bodies, and creative expression that engages our fat bodies. We're exploring an empowering and nuanced theory of fat liberation, one that goes beyond body-positivity or body image, and really digs deeper into our personal and lived experiences. We do this by connecting with our own embodied selves within the context of community. Dance classes and embodiment classes offered here in Portland, OR. We also have a touring group and solo performances exploring meaningful movement in fat bodies.

  • Coming Soon!

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    May 29, 30, 31 of 2026

    NEW Expressive Works

    Portland, OR

    Years in the making, a community of fat artists taking risks and getting curious about our bodies and building trust with each other, we are now ready to share with our community what we have built.

    MASS MOVEMENT explores movement and connection in fat bodies, in fat community, while holding the complexities of queer identity, gender variation, disability and chronic illness.

    Each performance is followed by a discussion between cast and audience.

    Details and ticketing coming soon!

  • Press: What are they saying about us?!

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    Portland Monthly- Arts Roundup

    Even this glossy print magazine took notice of the buzz our performances created recently!

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    What the Q? Podcast

    Hear KT talk about fatness, queerness, and how art helped her explore gender. Interviewed by the incredible Mickey, dancer and composer for Weighted Bodies.

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    Fat Face Feelings Podcast

    KT talks about fatness, identity, gender, queer performance art, community, imposter syndrome and her 3-legged anxious dog.

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    Dance Wire

    Dance Wire founder, Emily, interviews KT about her hopes for the future of Body Home (which later came true!)

     

     

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    Portland Monthly

    Article about Body Home and KT in December 2017

     

     

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    Fat Girls Hiking

    Fat Girls Hiking is a diverse body positive hiking community. Trails Not Scales! Article by their Sumr, their founder.

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    Stance on Dance

    Feature article from this organization that educates about dance from the perspective of underrepresented voices and access points.

  • Who are we?

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    KT Kusmaul (she/they)

    Founder, Artistic Director, choreographer

    KT is a fat, queer, non-binary, white, mostly able-bodied human who is passionate about community, creativity, and mutual liberation from oppressive systems. With a history of creating radical gender performance in an underground queer art scene, now they are using their creative skills to bring fat liberation performance art to life. They also bring their background in health care, bodywork and mental health to layer in the healing opportunities in these gatherings. They have been inspired by many teachers and mentors including Meshi Chavez, Pepper Pepper, and the vast fat liberation community that they have collaborated with.

  • Stay in Touch

     

    Want to collaborate, ask questions or send us love notes?

    Email us at:

    BodyHomeFatDance@gmail.com

     

     

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