Dr. Jussara Belchior is a fat dancer living in Blumenau / SC, Brazil, working as a choreographer and a researcher of practices and writings in contemporary dance. Her projects deal with fat people, fatness and non-normative bodies and she is interested in poetics and politics of movement and positioning yourself through dance.

Magdalena Hutter is a documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and photographer. Magdalena is a PhD candidate at Concordia University in Montreal/Tioh'tà:ke, Canada, where she uses documentary film to do research-creation about fatness as method in dance and movement art, exploring the potentials of fatness in these art forms and developing frameworks for fat screendance.

Dr Gillie Kleiman is a choreographer and scholar living in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Her performances, events, and pedagogical encounters are presented at venues and festivals nationwide and beyond, and are often focused on the figure of the non-professional dancer.