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PERFORMANCES I WRITING I QUEER COLLABORATIVE IMAGE MAKING I EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
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
HANNAH (16+)
Educational material including a podcast, online material and interactive aftertalk. 2023
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.