About me: Visit www.misnomer.org to find out what we're up to in 2009!
April 2009 - MISNOMER CREATING NEW WORK IN WALL STREET BANK VAULT-
We know a lot of people are down on Wall Street these days, but Misnomer, technically, is down on Wall Street - rehearsing in a BANK VAULT directly next door to the stock exchange! That's right, behind a 4-foot deep metal door, in a room where millions of dollars once resided, there is a dance floor upon which we are creating a new dance. We figure that the nation has finally realized the priceless commodity of dance!
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
VISIT MISNOMER.ORG for news, behind the scenes vidoes, contests, and upcoming shows.
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:
CONTRIBUTE TO OUR DANCES If you like what you see and want to help us make more dances and videos please consider making a contribution. Be part of an online group effort. Thank you for considering us.
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.
