is a dance artist based between New York City and Tallinn, Estonia. She pursues live solo performance and praxis. Her questions are inspired by a substrata of long-term, interdisciplinary dialogues with visual and performing arts collaborations. Most notably, Dages Juvelier Keates, NYC based collective HAM and celebrated choreographer Rosalind Crisp (AUS, EU). Steeves’ artistic research concerns relational ethics and emergent practices in co-creative art making. Her present focus is companioning (dramaturgically or otherwise) dance makers in rehearsal and production – currently Valentina Parravicini and Misleading Subjects (Balto-Scandic collaboration). Concurrently, Steeves has conducted a parallel career as a professional bodyworker since 2003. Her study and development of touch skills, relational dynamics and embodied language profoundly informs her artistic work. She has taught contemporary dance, performance and composition at the Tallinn University, Estonia since 2008 – current (both as full time and guest artist). Steeves achieved a MFA in New Performative Practices at the Stockholm University of the Arts (2023) as a scholarship recipient and holds a BA from Bard College (2001,USA). Her artistic work has been presented in Estonia, Germany, Spain, Sweden, the USA and UK.
