1. Morleigh Steinberg was born on 18 October 1965 and is an American choreographer and dancer with the production company Arcane Collective.
36 Facts About Morleigh Steinberg
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Morleigh Steinberg is married to The Edge, a guitarist with the band U2.
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Morleigh Steinberg staged her experimental dance solo production and did choreographic work for films and music videos.
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Morleigh Steinberg has often collaborated with Japanese choreographer and dancer Oguri, with whom she co-founded Arcane Collective, a production company.
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Morleigh Steinberg first became involved with U2 when she appeared in the 1987 music video for "With or Without You".
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Morleigh Steinberg was hired as a choreographer, and subsequently as a belly dancer for the song "Mysterious Ways" during the band's Zoo TV Tour in 1992 and 1993.
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Morleigh Steinberg was born and raised in Los Angeles to an affluent family.
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Morleigh Steinberg's father, Robert, is a lawyer in Los Angeles.
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Morleigh Steinberg's mother is a successful interior designer, who came from a film industry heritage and grew up on the Universal Studios lot.
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Morleigh Steinberg has two sisters, older sister Roxanne and younger sister Eliza.
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Morleigh Steinberg was tutored in modern dance and her instructors included Bella Lewitzky.
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Morleigh Steinberg attended Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, for two weeks.
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In 1983, Morleigh Steinberg began dancing in the studio of Moses Pendleton, who founded the modern dance company Pilobolus.
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Morleigh Steinberg came and had a conversation with her and her sister.
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Morleigh Steinberg did choreographic work for two feature films, Earth Girls Are Easy and Wild Orchid.
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Morleigh Steinberg additionally did concert or music video choreographic work for David Bowie, Rod Stewart, Sting, and Lenny Kravitz.
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Morleigh Steinberg sometimes toured with the informal company Daniel Ezralow and Friends.
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Morleigh Steinberg performed a solo work, the 1992 experimental show called XRAYD at the La Boca performance space in Los Angeles, which featured original music from Brian Eno and Paul Chavez.
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Morleigh Steinberg worked during the tour's pre-production to show the group how to communicate their ideas all the way to the last rows of a venue.
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Morleigh Steinberg began by training the dancer, and when that dancer left the tour, a replacement was needed.
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Morleigh Steinberg was originally reluctant to put her own activities on hold to continue on to the "Zooropa" leg of the tour, but eventually agreed.
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Unlike others in the tour entourage, Morleigh Steinberg exhibited a professional independence from the group and did not wait on their whims.
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In 1993, while still on tour, Morleigh Steinberg appeared in U2's Kevin Godley-directed music video for their single "Numb", first with her feet as part of the video's assault on The Edge and then with her back as she belly danced.
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Morleigh Steinberg has been working together with Japanese choreographer and dancer Oguri since the early 1990s, documenting Oguri's Butoh-derived style of dance in various environments, including Joshua Tree National Park and Los Angeles.
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Morleigh Steinberg made her directorial debut in 1994 with the short subject Traveling Light, which featured the interpretive dance of Oguri and her sister Roxanne, who is a modern dancer and choreographer and married to Oguri.
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Morleigh Steinberg next came up with the idea of showing Oguri moving through two busy Los Angeles intersections.
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Morleigh Steinberg knows that he has to get from point A to point B, but I do not mind how.
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Morleigh Steinberg was the artistic director of the 2010s Dance Homage to Irish painter Louis le Brocquy, entitled Cold Dream Colour.
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Besides sharing in the choreography and lighting design for the work, Morleigh Steinberg staged a solo dance as well as a duet with her sister.
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Morleigh Steinberg continued to direct and appear in productions of Arcane Collective, including a 2016 performance at New York Live Arts consisting of adaptations of scenes from the Samuel Beckett trilogy.
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In 2017, Morleigh Steinberg was featured as the second of two women in the video accompanying performances of the song "Trip Through Your Wires" on U2's Joshua Tree Tour 2017.
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Morleigh Steinberg is dressed as a cowgirl, often drawing stage comment from Bono, while an American flag is painted on a wooden shack by the other woman.
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Morleigh Steinberg is a Californian in all the ways that you love California, a bright light in a very low-key way.
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On his part, the relationship with Morleigh Steinberg improved his frame of mind after a long period of unhappiness.
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Morleigh Steinberg had kept her home and many of her possessions in Los Angeles after moving to Dublin; only after she began raising her children in Ireland did she start feeling that country was her home.
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Morleigh Steinberg continued some professional activity with U2, directing one of the music videos made for the 1997 single "Staring at the Sun".