Rob List

Rob List lives and works in Amsterdam (NL).

“I see my work as a critique of the language and ideology of representation, in which the audience must constantly analyze, interpret and make judgments. In the theater every gesture and action onstage seems to provoke the question “What does this mean?” I wish instead to return to a more elementary starting point in the theater: the body alone in space, which through sheer presence continuously actualizes the here and now, activating the space and making it concrete and palpable. My work is a form of research into this ‘quality of the living present’ and how it can develop into a choreography.” - Rob List