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All There is Left to Do



A four hour durational performance with Steef Kersbergen. 

With Italian translation by Andrea Pagnes. 

First performed at the T-Danse Festival, Aosta, Italy. October 2025 . Photos by Daniele Chatrian.

 This intimate performance art piece explores the journey of a nonbinary gender transition, shared from the perspectives of the person transitioning and their partner. Performed by real-life partners navigating this transformative experience -and the waiting associated with it- the work delves into themes of longing for change, identity, grief, and celebration.

 Through a poetic interplay of live action, voice-over, and projections, the performance invites the audience to join the pair in saying goodbye, in imagining change, and in waiting for it to happen. Mixing what has been, what might come and what is, creating a space filled with anticipation, frustration, and hope. 

While rooted in the personal journey of gender transition, All there is left to do reaches beyond the queer experience to touch on the difficult truth of waiting for change. By focussing on this specific struggle in the transgender experience, the piece serves as a reminder that while the journey of becoming is deeply personal, the act of waiting alongside someone is a radical expression of love, hope, and solidarity.

Even Concrete Shivers



Arcane Portals: an intensive co-creation with VestAndPage, 2025. Future Ritual: CEREMONY. Photo by Fenia Kotsopoulou.

A LOVE LETTER

Writing & Performing Experimentation

Created as part of 
the La Pocha Nostra & VestAndPage Alumni Summit 
at Live Art Ireland, July 2024. 










Photograph from the VestAndPage workshop 
by Fenia Kotsopoulou. 

About fear

Writing & Performing Exercise. A part of the La Pocha Nostra & VestAndPage Alumni Summit at Live Art Ireland, July 2024. Photograph from the VestAndPage workshop by Fenia Kotsopoulou. 

What we remember

 

Some places are see through.

Layering what we see now

old bricks, an unstable wall 

with history, heritage, 

stories of honey 

and weeds 

that will once again cover it all.


Look in the dark pits 

and you time-travel backwards

for over four hundred years.


 (...)



Part of the Buzzing the Boles event at Live Art Ireland during Irish Heritage Week. Made while working in residence at Live Art Ireland. Thanks to Culture Moves Europe. A Performance Ritual, August 2024. 

Mud

let’s start with mud

no start

just mud

mud


slosh


grijze vlakte

zwarte drek

grijs

zacht grijs

grauw grijs

blauw grijs

zwart grijs

grijs zwart


splosh 

splut


my foot is getting stuck

i’m stuck

i’m stuck in rhyme

don’t rhyme

just rhythm

just

rhythm

this -


sulfur smell

smell the sulfur

smell the sea

smell 

de zwavel zee

(...)

Mudwalk

Read or listen to the full poem published in
 
Notulen van het Onzichtbare. Juni 2024
with music by Cas Bastiaans. 

Presented at 


Literatuur Nest, Nijmegen. 2024

Eigenzinnig, Arnhem . 2024

Queer-openmic, Nijmegen. 2024

Written during the
Tidal Bodies Workshop with VestAndPage, Feb 2024. 

Queer Collaborative Image Making

Photography: Fenia Kotsopoulou, Vicky Maier, Steef Kersbergen. Development and Printing: Fenia Kotsopoulou, Vicky Maier and Caro Ruoff. Kings: Fenia Kotsopoulou, Vicky Maier, Steef Kersbergen and Caro Ruoff. Ongoing

I am lying with my face to the floor

my mouth in my hands fighting 

while they are biting 

the insides of my cheeks bleeding 

from where they started eating 

me from the inside out

breathing hot vapor in my mouth

polluting my brain with heavy fog

twisting their tails around my tong

my vocal cords, my thoughts

tighter and tighter

hardly capable of breathing

I realise I’ve lost

the capacity 

to speak.

I’ve been eating monsters

Presented at
 

Eigenzinnig, Arnhem. 2024
Poëzie Colada, Nijmegen. 2024

A Portrait

Writing & Performing Experimentation


Created as part of the Course 

WRITE I PERFORM

by Emily Orley 


Performance for Camera. 2023

Nog niet eerder benoemd, herkent of uitgesproken

gonst er in mij een grondtoon haast onhoorbaar

waarop al mijn cellen mee vibreren.


Je raakte mij al direct de eerste keer dat ik je zag.  

Een vorm van vrijheid liep met jou mijn leven binnen. 


Ik heb er nog geen woorden voor, 

kan nog niet benoemen hoe precies, 

weet niet of het vechten wordt of een zacht verglijden 


maar tegen jou heb ik me nooit hoeven verzetten. 

Zacht stromend ben ik met je meegegaan.

Maar dat hoef ik jou niet uit te leggen 

Performed at Eigenzinnig, Arnhem. 2024

Educational Materials

Kaatje

Educational material including a shuitcase , a building plate, online material, interactive aftertalk and a mini-podcast. 2022

Online material

Mini Podcast

HANNAH (16+)

Educational material including a podcast, online material and interactive aftertalk. 2023

Mini Podcast

LUCY

Educational material including posters, stickers, online material and interactive aftertalk. 2021 


This educational material belongs to ©Theater AanZ. Photography and Design by © Karin Jonkers.