Robert Vesty

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Robert grew up half in Lancashire and half in Essex through the 70s and 80s. He was the eldest of three boys in a working-class family and a first-generation University student. He originally trained as an actor (University of Birmingham and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama) in the 90s, but has maintained an interdisciplinary performance practice over many years since. He has also had extensive experience working in Higher Education. Until May 2024, he was Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University where he taught on the BA Theatre programme, led the MA in Professional Arts Practice and co-chaired the LGBT+ Staff Network. Robert was a long-term visiting lecturer at Central School of Speech and Drama, teaching movement (through the Feldenkrais Method) on the Collaborative Devised Theatre course between 2016 and 2021. In 2020, he completed his PhD thesis entitled Material Words for Voicing Dancers (Royal Holloway University of London) based on practice-led research that investigated the use of voice in some dance improvisatory performance practices. Robert graduated as a practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method® in 2015. The thing that brings all this together is a specialism in movement for actors within the field of consent-based performance in both practice and research. He currently lives in East London with his spouse.