acting & performance
projects, practice and pieces
beyond acting
A performer drawing on THE ACTOR’S craft
Robert is an actor, but his performance practice can also be located in dance. He often works with the tool of improvisation and related strategies. He likes to integrate voicing and moving to create instantly composed pieces that have an air of hyper-theatricality. Robert is interested in the creation of poetic text in pieces that, although improvised, can be repeated and still be worthy of the status of improvisation but also in how improvisation manifests in text-based performance and plays.
instant composition
Sand and Vision
Sand and Vision – a series of four solo pieces by Agostina D’alessandro, Billie Hanne, Anna Heuer Hansen and Robert Vesty. Directed by Julyen Hamilton. Lights by Sylvain Formatché. Carthago, Brussels, 1, 2, & 3 April 2016
A Piece for Two Lovers
A one-off performance, a gift, a performance of the precarity of love.
A Piece for Two (Lovers) was performed by A de la Fe & Robert Vesty for Dancing Economies, RHUL, 20 February 2015 – Boilerhouse in the session entitled Performances: Friendship and Love. This piece brings two real-life lovers, A and Rob, together to perform. A is a dance artist, and Rob, an actor. Both enter the theatre of a performance piece using the language of dance and/or word. Before the piece, each lover secretly recorded a performance score lasting exactly 15-minutes. Once on stage, they each handed the other an MP3 player with headphones. The audience then witness each lover encounter and perform the score. In that way, this one-off performance played with the strategy of improvisation.
Robert’s score for A
A’s score for Robert
anthologyofamess
Anthologyofamess is a stable for living forms, people, performers, dancers, librarians…
The Container
The Container was an improvised duet. It was performed on Saturday 4th October, 2014 by Petra Söör and Robert for Agony Art at Chisenhale Dance Space. They shared a bill with two other improvised duets by Seke Chimuntengwende & Rebecca McKenzie and Andrew Morrish & Brenda Waite.
Photos from the tech by Maria Andrews.
Julyen Hamilton’s Instant Composition Workshop
These images are taken of dancers participating in Julyen Hamilton’s 10-day workshop (Improvisation and Technique) in Arlequi, Spain between 2013 & 2017 by photographer Patrick Beelaert.
