Rob Hesp (they/them) is a performance artist, choreographer and dancer originally from Leeds, England. Rob trained in London at the Royal central school of speech and drama before starting to work freelance. 

 

Rob is interested in the ways people come together, creating work that traverses between the local, intimate, individual experience and the large scale group expression. Working with choreography and movement, Rob builds frames and compositions to house chance encounters and improvisation. Swelling choreographies often growing from a language of action, counter-action and crude gesture, rooted by the relationships between people or pathways in space. 

Rob is also very interested in different forms of participation, in challenging and sometimes removing the distance between the audience and the performance - giving people direct access to the sensation, feeling and movement within the work.

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As a performer Rob has worked with artists and choreographers including Marina Abramović, Mehmet Sander, Ingri Fiksdal, Farah Saleh, Robert George Sanders and Luke Pell, performing at venues including the Royal academy of arts, Saatchi gallery and Tate Modern. Rob also worked as a core performance artist with Danish performance group Sisters Hope for a number of years, with key involvement in their Sisters Hope Home 5 year immersive project.

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Rob is based in Copenhagen, Denmark and works internationally, having presented performance work across the UK and Europe. ​They currently lead the course 'Performance; the body as site, sense and instrument' at Ryslinge Højskole. 

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Image by Sebastian Buch.