Dead reckoning

“Dead reckoning” is a way of determining the position of a moving object, particularly at sea. Another name for this is “path integration” or the ways of knowing that animals and insects use to locate themselves. Incorporating speed, direction, and time, they reckon, by continually estimating their present relationship to once-and-future points of place.

This dance practice reckons through scales of time, touch, and otherliness. It is danced by one who is, has been, and will be many. Likewise, its audience is one who is many and many who are one. Performance terrains are flooded with relation. Wayfinding slips into making within and without the moment at hand.

Dead Reckoning performances will live multiple lives within the NPP presentation context. Live performance document is the current working edge. Supporting assemblages and entangled practices are just that. You are invited to one and all.

When / Where

Live performance document – a solo for one danced for many.
April 28 18:00
April 29 17:00
April 30 14:00
ccap Körsbärsvägen 9
Places limited. RSVP alexissteeves@gmail.com

Supporting Assemblages + Entangled Practices

Pop-In-Performance - Robert Malmborg’s Temporary Workplace Situation
April 27-28, 13:30-17:00
Studio 11, Brinellvagen 58, SKH

Push/ing on Language with Laressa Dickey + Sara Kaaman
April 30, 17:30, 75 minutes
Skeppsholmen Studion, Slupskjulsvägen 34

A series of solos for audiences of one.
May 2-3, 11:00-13:00
Studio 16, Brinellvagen 58, SKH
Performances limited. RSVP alexissteeves@gmail.com 

Pop-Up-Performance - NPP presentation week at Weld
May 3-6, time TBD
Weld, Norrtullsgatan 7
Supported by ccap Körsbärsvägen and Skeppsholmen Studion

Special thanks belong to Laressa Dickey, Martin Hargreaves, Dages Juvelier Keates, Valentina Parravicini, Tove Salmgren, Rain Special thanks belong to Rosalind Crisp, Joshua Dumas, Laressa Dickey, Martin Hargreaves, Dages Juvelier Keates, Chrysa Parkinson, Valentina Parravicini, Tove Salmgren, Rain Saukas and the beloved cohort.

Bio

ALEXIS STEEVES is a dance artist based between New York City and Stockholm. Steeves pursues ongoing research in live solo and collaborative performance praxis. She is currently conducting graduate work in the New Performative Practices program at the Stockholm University of the Arts (Sweden) as a scholarship recipient and holds a BA from Bard College (USA). 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 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). Her work as a choreographer and teacher is accompanied by 18 years as a licensed, therapeutic bodywork practitioner. Specializing in Structural Integration, the manual fascial work handed forward by Ida Rolf.