MORLEIGH STEINBERG is a dancer, choreographer, lighting designer, and filmmaker. She was a co-founding member of ISO Dance Theater and a formative member of Momix with which she has toured extensively. She has also toured with Daniel Ezralow and Friends, rock group U2, and as a solo artist/performer. She has collaborated with Los Angeles based dancers Oguri and Roxanne Steinberg on several productions and has been working as lighting designer for OGURI and RENZOKU. She has choreographed and performed in numerous music videos and films, inspiring her to explore the medium of film. She conceived and directed her first film, "Traveling Light" which was noted in festivals around the world. Steinberg continues to shoot and direct projects including dance inspired shorts, music videos and documentaries.
Morleigh Steinberg has been directing films since 1994. Her directorial debut, the award winning short, “Traveling Light", was presented by Francis Ford Coppola, for the VH-1 music-film series. Since then, it has been her passion to capture dance on film. Morleigh was chosen to participate in the UCLA Dance/Media Fellowship Project, where she shot and directed, “XING” and “Naizou”, featuring renowned Butoh dancer, Oguri. Her other films include “Stir” and “Too Close for Conversation”, with New York choreographer Nina Winthrop. Morleigh completed her first feature length documentary “Height of Sky” which documents the extraordinary two year journey of Oguri as he sets out to investigate his identity and his dance in the hostile serenity of the deserts of California. Known for her work as a dancer, choreographer and lighting designer, Morleigh co-founded ISO Dance in 1986, along with Jamey Hampton, Ashley Roland, and Daniel Ezralow, and was a formative member of Momix. She toured the world extensively with both companies and with her solo work. She won an Emmy award for best screen choreography in “Episodes”, a PBS presentation of ISO repertory. Working as a choreographer and performer in numerous music videos and feature films served as a natural progression in her move to directing film. Morleigh is a native of Los Angeles now residing in Dublin, Ireland.
ISO - Formed in 1986 by Daniel Ezralow, Jamey Hampton, Ashley Roland, and Morleigh Steinberg, the principals dancer/choreographers of Momix, ISO's projects are as varied as its style: from music videos to feature films, dance theatre to fashion shows. The choreography of ISO is created by the collaborative efforts of all four members. As members of Momix from 1983 - 1987, they worked in collaboration with Issey Miyake to direct fashion-dance spectacles in Tokyo, Paris, New York City, Fashion-Aid in London and Music Television Videos for The Lover Speaks, John Fogerty, U2, and Simply Red. In 1986, ISO Dance Theatre was born and began creating new shows and touring throughout the world. An early ISO project was a collaboration on the choreography for David Bowie's Glass Spider World Tour after which ISO went on to choreograph and perform in the film Earth Girls Are Easy. In 1988, ISO choreographed and performed the Music Television Video for Sting's They Dance Alone, a protest to the political problems in the Republic of Chile, which has been seen throughout the world.
In the same year, ISO also organized a dance benefit at the Joyce Theatre in New York to raise funds for Amnesty International. In the spring of 1988, ISO joined forces with The Bobs to produce the show ISO and The Bobs.
ROXANNE STEINBERG is a founder of BODY WEATHER LABORATORY in L.A. (1988) and has been performing with OGURI since 1990. She has danced worldwide and performed in special projects for MIN TANAKA'S opera choreography and in FIFTH by AMAGATSU of SANKAI JUKU. She has choreographed works for BODY VOX in Portland, Oregon, LAUREN BON'S NOT A CORNFIELD and FARMLAB in downtown Los Angeles. Her solo dance work has been presented in OGURI'S FLOWER OF THE SEASON in Venice and she received a DURFEE ARTS GRANT for her piece at CONVERSATIONS at THE FLEA in New York where she will be perform again April 7th 2009. She is an artist in residence at the ELECRIC LODGE in Venice.
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