ALEXIS STEEVES is a dance artist based between New York City and Stockholm. Steeves pursues ongoing research in live solo and collaborative performance praxis. Her questions emerge from substrata of long-term, interdisciplinary dialogues and the relational ethics and emergent practices within which they co-create and sometimes rest. Most often these methods proliferate in shared studio practices, experimental performance and pedagogical formulations. Steeves’ is deeply informed by her exchange with Rosalind Crisp (AUS, EU), and work with the NYC based performance collective HAM (high art moment).Her work as a choreographer and teacher is nourished by 18 years as a licensed, therapeutic bodywork practitioner (LMT, SI).
She earned an MFA in Choreography in the New Performative Practices program at the Stockholm University of the Arts as a scholarship recipient and
holds a BA from Bard College (USA). Her artistic work has been presented in Estonia, Germany, Spain, Sweden, the USA and UK. She has taught contemporary dance, performance and composition at the Tallinn University (TLU), Fine5 Dance Theater, Noore
Tantsu Festival (NoTaFe), Bard High School Early College and Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX). Since 2003 Steeves has worked as a licensed and certified massage therapist and, from 2013, specializes in Structural Integration (ATSI, manual fascial work of Ida Rolf).