FAT BLOKES
Fat Blokes is a sort of dance show about flab, double chins and getting your kit off in public
Image © Rosie Powell
Image © Rosie Powell
Image © Rosie Powell
Image © Rosie Powell
The Fat blokes Company
Fat Blokes is the cult, award winning, sell out, sort of dance show about trying to fit into a world that says you’re too fat.
Made by five fat friends who have never done this sort of thing before, in collaboration with Lea Anderson, Fat Blokes subjects you to our pent up aggression, love for riot grrrl and our ability to burp on command.
Prepare to fall in love with us.
This is fat rebellion.
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Sam
“I just like to wear some glitter on my eyes and to be left alone”
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Asad
“I haven’t seen enough fat, brown blokes talk and be centre of attention. And, I love attention.”
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Gez
“I wanted to celebrate my body, and my value. I wanted to dance about it.”
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Joe
“I realised i was fat when I was 4 years old, I found out because people told me”
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Scottee
“Fat Blokes is about reclaiming the slur, it’s not about the gender of the performer.”
The Live Show
Made in collaboration with Lea Anderson and four fat blokes who’ve never done this sort of thing before. The live show is all about pent up aggression, riot grrrl and the hokey cokey.
Our 2022 tour is coming to a city near you!
"an act of theatrical consciousness-raising”
— The Guardian
Digital work
Fat Blokes have embraced digital in the last few years by creating a number of digital works including international collaborations.
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This Kind Body examines five fat queer bodies and their attempt to carve out a space in which their fatness isn't the cause of their death but the reason they survive. Made across nine locations and shot entirely on mobile phones during a national lockdown in the UK, This Kind Body is a surreal and often confronting dance film.
This Kind body will be available on The Campery in July 2022.
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Over 10 days the Fat Blokes collaborated with five fat artists from poa em cena in Brazil. They will create a series of 15 second dance works filmed in their bedrooms that will be archived on the new Fat Blokes Instagram channel.
This digital residency was made possibly with support from the British Council.
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Available exclusively in The Campery
Directed by: Scottee/ Performers Joe, Gez, Asad, Sam and Scottee/ Lea Anderson/ Executive Producer: Molly Nicholson / Associate Director: Matty May/ Understudy for Sam: Jonny Goode
Co-commissioned by Southbank Centre and Home, Manchester.
The Campery
Find exclusive Fat Blokes work on The Campery
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Fat Blokes company are BACK! Over the next year we will be creating a series of digital works with the Fat Blokes company that go beyond the stage show with the same name.