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[keryx]

You could think about the whole inauguration thing, but why would you want to?

Instead, you could think about "Voluminous Dance", a Cuban ballet company of fat folk. Their pictures (in the article, which is shocked - shocked, I tell ya - to discover that fat people are graceful) are pretttty; I'd like to see them perform.

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[rackletang.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I would love to see them!

[libskrat]

Do they teach?

[keryx.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I haven't found anything other than US-based articles about them online (no doubt in part because I'm not sure what their actual, probably Spanish, name is).

[follybard.livejournal.com]

"Danza Voluminosa", according to the article.

Googling the Spanish name didn't turn up very much -- no official website or anything, as far as I can tell -- but I have learned that Google's auto-translate does very amusing things to surnames....

This should give you the Google-translated version of this El Nuevo Herald page with an article about the group (3rd article down). But check out the poorly translated title of the article just following it, which totally gave me the giggles....

[ivyblogs.livejournal.com]

Ooooo! I'd love to see them too.

Notice they managed to get the words "fast food" and "obesity" in the same sentence. Like how can there be fat people without fast food? Because that is all us fat folks eat, after all. I'm still trying to figure out how my mother and her mother and even her mother all managed to get fat in pre-fast food America. How did they ever manage to do it back in the olden days of whole foods, home cooked meals, hard labor house cleaning and no t.v?

[keryx.livejournal.com]

Where did we get the idea that only processed, "lower class" foods made people fat, anyhow? I bet it's just whatever poorer people are eating more of at the time. I recall the thought being in the eighties that it was the Midwestern (milk, meat, potato, veggie at each meal) diet that made people fat.

[momsmilkrules.livejournal.com]

I wanna live in Cuba, LOL. I was watching the inauguration, how depressing...

[deadpoet83.livejournal.com]

As a fat girl who is currently taking ballet (and who is the only fat girl in my class) that is very inspiring.

[examorata.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you saw this - a month or so back I heard a story on them on "Morning Edition" on my drive to work, and I meant to look them up specifically because I thought you would appreciate hearing about them! But then by the time I got to work it was busy and distracting and I forgot what they were called. Anyway -cool!