Arcane Collective

{{Short description|Contemporary dance production company}}

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| founders = Morleigh Steinberg
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| venue = Dublin, Ireland

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| choreographers = Liz Roche

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Arcane Collective is a contemporary dance production company, producing and presenting work from a cooperative of international artists from different backgrounds. It was founded in 2011 by Morleigh Steinberg, a dancer and choreographer and Oguri, a dancer and choreographer from Japan.{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-xpm-2012-may-17-la-et-cm-cold-dream-colour-review-20120516-story.html | title=Review: Striking visuals lift 'Cold Dream Colour' at REDCAT | work=Los Angeles Times | access-date=June 5, 2013 | last=Bleiberg | first=Laura | year=2013}}

Their performance Cold Dream Colour was presented in 2012, as a homage to the important Irish artist Louis le Brocquy, the performance being inspired by his paintings.{{cite web|url=http://www.lhpublicity.ie/arts-culture/cold-dream-colour/ |title=Cold Dream Colour |work=Lindsey Holmes Publicity |accessdate=June 5, 2013 |year=2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235835/http://www.lhpublicity.ie/arts-culture/cold-dream-colour/ |archivedate=March 3, 2016 }} Morleigh explained "He so often pays homage to different painters, and I thought, for his birthday we could pay homage to him."{{cite web | url=http://www.u2.com/news/article/6337 | title=Cold Dream Colour, US Premiere | work=U2 | accessdate=7 June 2013 | year=2013 }} The music was composed by Paul Chavez and performed by U2's The Edge with choreography by Liz Roche{{cite web|url=http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/calendar-and-events/2013/05/12/arcane-collective-cold-dream-colour/1365 |title=Arcane Collective: Cold Dream Colour |work=guggenheim.org |year=2013 |accessdate=June 5, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510044312/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/calendar-and-events/2013/05/12/arcane-collective-cold-dream-colour/1365 |archivedate=May 10, 2013 }} Steinberg, the artistic director of the piece staged a solo dance as well as a duet with her sister Roxanne, wife of Oguri.{{cite web |url= http://www.hotpress.com/politics/frontlines/7258734.html? |title=For A Dancer |first=Adrienne |last=Murphy |work=hotpress.com |year=2013 |accessdate=June 5, 2013}}

Excerpts from Cold Dream Colour were performed at the Guggenheim Museum's Works & Process series in New York in 2013 and Irish broadcaster John Kelly moderated a discussion of the work with its creators.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/events/dance/works-and-process-at-the-guggenheim-12278.html | title=Works & Process at the Guggenheim | first=Siobhan | last=Burke | newspaper=The New York Times | accessdate=6 June 2013}}

Collaborating dancers include Cat Westwood, Boaz Barkan, Sherwood Chen, Joyce Lu and Dani Lunn and costume design by Mariad Whisker.{{cite web | url=http://arcanecollective.com/artists/collaborators/ | title=Collaborators | work=Arcane Collective | accessdate=June 6, 2013 | year=2013}}