The most beautiful part of your body is where it’s headed: T4t togetherness in Jules Fischer’s performance Vanitas

This article analyses the performance and total installation Vanitas (the musical) (2022) by the Danish choreographer and visual artist Jules Fischer. Through a t4t methodology and anchored in my own embodied and affective experience as a trans person I argue that Vanitas offers a knowing trans togetherness we who are trans can experience and feel in different ways than those who do not have such experiences. Vanitas centers trans experience and togetherness not by explaining what transness is, but by offering a performative space filled with ambivalence, embodied practicing and an alongsided togetherness. A temporary t4t (trans-for-trans) togetherness shaped around the multiplicity of ways, we as trans people, together and alongside one another, move closer to each other and ourselves in an effort to heal, survive and even thrive.