Arcane Collective is a

contemporary dance Contemporary dance is a genre of Concert dance, dance performance that developed during the mid-twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominant genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world, with particularly stron ...

production company, producing and presenting work from a

cooperative A cooperative (also known as co-operative, coöperative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomy, autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned a ...

of international artists from different backgrounds. It was founded in 2011 by Morleigh Steinberg, a dancer and

choreographer Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which Motion (physics), motion or Visual appearance, form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A chor ...

and

Oguri Naoyuki Oguri (born 1963), who performs as simply Oguri, is a dancer and choreographer from Japan who lives in Los Angeles, California, where he works creating and teaching dance. His work is influenced by the tradition of the Japanese Butoh st ...

, a dancer and choreographer from Japan. Their performance ''Cold Dream Colour'' was presented in 2012, as a homage to the important Irish artist

Louis le Brocquy __NOTOC__ Louis le Brocquy '' HRHA'' (; 10 November 1916 – 25 April 2012) was an Irish painter born in Dublin to Albert and Sybil le Brocquy. Louis' sister is the sculptor Melanie Le Brocquy. His work received many accolades in a caree ...

, the performance being inspired by his paintings. Morleigh explained "He so often pays homage to different painters, and I thought, for his birthday we could pay homage to him." The music was composed by Paul Chavez and performed by U2's

The Edge David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961), better known as the Edge or simply Edge,McCormick (2006), pp. 21, 23–24 is a British-Irish musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist, keyboardist, and backing vocalist o ...

with choreography by Liz Roche Steinberg, the artistic director of the piece staged a solo dance as well as a duet with her sister Roxanne, wife of Oguri. Excerpts from ''Cold Dream Colour'' were performed at the

Guggenheim Museum The Guggenheim Museums are a group of museums in different parts of the world established (or proposed to be established) by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Museums in this group include: * The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Ne ...

's Works & Process series in New York in 2013 and Irish broadcaster John Kelly moderated a discussion of the work with its creators. Collaborating dancers include Cat Westwood, Boaz Barkan, Sherwood Chen, Joyce Lu and Dani Lunn and costume design by Mariad Whisker.

Personnel

Dancers

*Roxanne Steinberg *Cat Westwood *Boaz Barkan *Sherwood Chen *Dani Lunn *Joyce Lu *Morleigh Steinberg

Choreographer

*Morleigh Steinberg *Oguri

Musicians

* Paul Chavez

Artists

*Louis Le Brocquy *Hirrokazu Kosaka * Moses Hacmon

Costume designer

*Mariad Whisker

References

External links

Arcane Collective website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Arcane Collective Contemporary dance Performing groups established in the 2000s