PRESS ABOUT MISNOMER
“Chris Elam's dances burst with distinctiveness ... he is a talent, no doubt about it... Mr. Elam is well on his way to establishing himself as an important voice in downtown dance.” - The New York Times
“Christopher Elam's Misnomer Dance Theater hit town with a force I haven't seen since the early days of Mark Morris.” - The Village Voice
“Bizarre and comical, Chris Elam's Misnomer Dance Theater blurs the line between humans behaving weirdly and animals at play.” - Dance Magazine
“Absurd and poignant... wonderfully strange and unpredictable choreography.”
- The New Yorker
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THE MISNOMER STORE is a way to get great things and help us make art. Check it out for DVDs, signed photographs, and "wrap-around" T's by NYC designer Trong Nuygen printed on American Apparel. See them here:
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APPLE COMPUTERS made a feautre documentary about our choreography for RES digitized with motion-capture technology - Check it out below and read about it here.
Muchas gracias por el add!!! I love your work, specially because in this world I usually find pretentious people with cliché ideas, but your work has a lot of sense of humour, it's very personal and profesional... I'd love to see you dancing some day in Spain or Mexico :-) Good luck with everything
Hello Chris, i stopped here, to watch your videos, they are absolutely amazing. The coreographies, the armony of the movements. I admire your control over your body. Thank you so much for my add as your friend. I hope some day to meet you personally, and knowing more about your work and art.
ups!! sorry i forgotted that you dont spek spanish!! sorry!! but yes i like very much your imagines and 1000 tanks for the page taht you give me !!! i hope you are fine!! and soryy again but i dont kwon very much english!!jijiji!!from mexico kisses!!!chaOo.ATT...claudia!!
I love your page... So many interesting things! I was wondering if you could give me some inspiring information to motivate me into training again within Dance please?
