Anti-Diet/Body Liberation Show

In this course we will co-create a multimedia dance-theater performance called Unconditional Love (of dancing, mangoes, and me). Blending dance, song, spoken word, recorded stories, and slide projections, this one-hour show explores eating disorders, patriarchy, capitalism, and racism while celebrating body liberation, pleasure, dancing in the mirror, and shaking off what binds us. Using texts (including Sonya Renee Taylor, Sabrina Strings, and Lindo Bacon), podcasts, personal stories, and research, participants will generate new material and also learn sections of existing choreography. The course culminates in a public showing. Grounded in an intersectional analysis of anti-fatness across race, class, and patriarchy, this course is both academic and intimate, using collective feminist creativity to resist body fascism and affirm self-love.



Rachel Siegel is a Burlington-based performer and choreographer as well as a community and political organizer. She is in recovery from eating disorders and works to expose the connections between diet culture and sexism, racism, capitalism, as well as other systems of oppression, so that we can all move toward liberation and pleasure.