Rob Hesp (they/them) is a performance artist and choreographer from Leeds, England. They completed training in London at the Royal central school of speech and drama before starting to work freelance. Rob has presented work at venues across the UK and throughout Europe, working with artists including Marina Abramović, Farah Saleh and Danish performance group Sisters Hope.

Rob is interested in the ways people come together, creating performance that traverses between the local, intimate, individual experience and the large scale group expression. 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.

Rob has choreographed for Ryslinge Højskole on many occasions, including performances at Heartland festival, as well as leading the spring-term course line ‘Performance; the body as site, sense and instrument’. With a creative practice rooted consistently in teaching, Rob encourages their students to work with sensitivity, courage and imagination, tools necessary for realising the transformative potential both in live performance and the everyday.