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Arcane Collective is a an international dance co-op and production company co-founded in Spring 2011 by dancers Morleigh Steinberg and Oguri.

Members

 * Morleigh Steinberg: Co-founder and dancer
 * Naoyuki Oguri: Co-founder and dancer
 * Roxanne Steinberg: Dancer
 * Cat Westwood: Dancer
 * Boaz Barkan: Dancer
 * Sherwood Chen: Dancer
 * Dani Lunn: Dancer
 * Joyce Lu: Dancer
 * Liz Roche: Choreographer
 * The Edge: Misician
 * Paul Chavez: Musican, Composer
 * Louis Le Brocquy: Artist
 * Hirokazu Kosaka: Artist
 * Moses Hacmon: Artist, Architect
 * Mariad Whisker: Clothes/Costume Designer

Cold Dream Colour
(check and edit) Morleigh Steinberg was the artistic director of the 2010's Dance Homage to Irish painter Louis le Brocquy, entitled Cold Dream Colour. The work had its world première in Dublin. Le Brocquy later died, in 2012. The Edge had brought le Brocquy's work to Steinberg's attention, and she became convinced that his paintings could be interpreted through dance. The music for Cold Dream Colour is composed by The Edge in collaboration with Paul Chavez (known for his experimental electronic compositions under the project name FeltLike). Besides sharing in the choreography and lighting design for the work, Steinberg also staged a solo dance as well as a duet with her sister. The work had its US première at REDCAT in Los Angeles in 2012; a review in the Los Angeles Times said that "Visceral expressionism and a prodigious visual beauty coalesced ... a striking visual success", but that it was less certain whether the nature of le Brocquy's paintings had been conveyed to the less-familiar American audience. . Excerpts from Cold Dream Colour were performed at the Guggenheim Museum's Works & Process series for two nights in 2013 in New York, with Irish broadcaster John Kelly moderating a discussion of the work with its creators.

The US Cold Dream Colour was presented by Arcane Collective, a production company that Steinberg and Oguri had co-founded in Spring 2011.

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LA Times  Oguri Los Angeles Times Monday March 27, 2006 At its heart, a dark tale old and familiar By Victoria Looseleaf First there is the face: Astonishing in its many guises, this is a visage simultaneously old and young, ecstatic and empty;  More

LA Downtown News  Caddy! Caddy! Caddy! On a recent Monday morning, the Japanese- born, Los Angeles based choreographer who goes by the single appellation, Oguri is sipping green tea from a delicate, white- and-blue porcelain teacup. More

Orange County Register  Caddy! Caddy! Caddy! Oguri, the master, is in a class by himself. And he surpassed even himself in this piece, a memorable theatrical event. Butoh artist Oguri captures the thick humidity and Gothic atmosphere of William Faulkners decaying South. More

Los Angeles Times  Caddy! Caddy! Caddy! First there is the face: Astonishing in its many guises, this is a visage simultaneously old and young, ecstatic and empty; one where a surprised look becomes a world of wisdom living within a sly, sweet smile. This is the face of Oguri, butoh master and L.A. jewel. More

LA Downtown News  Cold Dream Colour When Morleigh Steinberg moved to Ireland about 20 years ago after marrying U2 guitarist The Edge, she was immediately drawn to the paintings of Louis le Brocquy, a widely hailed Irish artist and close friend of the band. More

LA Times  Cold Dream Colour a virtuoso performance?- a striking visual success Visceral expressionism and a prodigious visual beauty coalesced in Cold Dream Colour, a dance-theater homage to seminal Irish artist Louis le Brocquy. More

Irish Times Magazine  Cold Dream Colour Morleigh Steinberg has devised a dance homage to Louis le Brocquy. Róisín Ingle met her at a break in rehearsals. More More

Irish Independent  Cold Dream Colour ITS NICE to see a bit of rock-star oomph being injected into the world of contemporary dance. More

The Irish Times  Cold Dream Colour Although it is billed as a dance homage to Louis le Brocquy, Cold Dream Colour refused to be a moving representation of static canvases. The first moments made it clear that this would be more than a visual experience. More ________________

Los Angeles Times Monday March 27, 2006 At its heart, a dark tale old and familiar By Victoria Looseleaf

First there is the face: Astonishing in its many guises, this is a visage simultaneously old and young, ecstatic and empty; one where a surprised look becomes a world of wisdom living within a sly, sweet smile. This is the face of Oguri, butoh master and L.A. jewel. That his body is also a pristine, pliant work of art makes an Oguri performance a profound journey unlike any other.And so it was Saturday at Venice’s Electric Lodge, when the dancer presented “Caddy! Caddy! Caddy!” Inspired by William Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury,” the 55-minute work was its own poetry, gushing with physical, emotional and spiritual depths.Accompanied by Paul Chavez’s deliriously original score (performed live), Oguri pierced the heart of Southern family darkness, and with it, our own. His latest dance troupe — Honeysuckle (Jamie Burris, Morleigh Steinberg and Roxanne Steinberg) — completed the remarkable, fractured picture.Sprawled on a child’s chair on a small wooden platform (think cozy front porch), Oguri, in white face and carrot top-like wig, wore baggy pants and a shirt. Unblinking, he moved only his head, so slowly as to be virtually imperceptible in the dim, amber light. A faint train whistle sounded; the head now cocked.

A million stories played out in these moments of near stillness before Burris, clad in a floral print dress, stealthily entered the narrow pool of water separated from the stage/porch by barbed wire. Clutching a calla lily, she began spinning.

Oguri responded with a silent, anguished scream, eventually contorting himself into and around the chair in what would become a prolonged, startling exit.

Roxanne Steinberg appeared in black pumps and dress, an enigmatic tableau moving her long, bony legs unnaturally. She was a 21st century hair-tossing Veruschka to Morleigh Steinberg’s athletic mime, the latter arriving in a man’s suit, straw boater and cowboy boots. Scattered piano sounds accompanied this squatting, bouncing, backward-walking dance, before Morleigh, wading into the water, stripped down to a slip, then straddled and snipped the wire.

Liberated, the women (three Graces, albeit ones swatting imaginary flies) frolicked in hide-and-seek mode, the music swelling to herald Oguri’s reentry. Naked and wigless, he semi-reclined in the pool, smoothly slithering into Morleigh’s shed suit.

Finally, upright and facing the audience, Oguri — hat in one hand, book in the other — was the mysterious stranger, a gentleman caller, that much-needed emissary beckoning from beyond.