Robert Steijn tries to bring the magic back in life and in the theatre. His instrument is his body and his mind. He thinks we must clean this instrument, before we can offer the audience something valuable. Although he grew up as a disco kid, and discovered trance-states during the house music in the eighties and nineties, he started late dancing in front of an audience. His helper is a deer, who appears in a lot of his texts and dances. His belief is that everyone can become a home made contemporary shaman, if he puts himself on the path of poetry. In making dance performances he feels influenced by two dutch choreographers with whom he worked for more than ten years as a dramaturge: Gonnie Heggen and Desiree Delauney. He is also influenced by two theatre companies, belonging to the dutch avantgarde: called Nieuw West and Maatschappij Discordia. In inventing big rituals, as he used to do sometimes, he is influenced by his collaboration with the Dutch director Lidy Six. In his thinking about art, he is strongly influenced by the mentality of the work of performance artists Jack Smith, and the poets Whalt Whitman and Alan Ginsberg. In his aesthetics he is influenced by the formality and playfullness of the performances of Dan Graham and Matt Mullican. In his belief in the spiritual dimension of theatre he is influenced by his encounters with the Korean Shaman Hi ah Park, by Ayahuasca rituals, long walks and very significant dreams and visions about how to go on in his life.