March 13, 2008Bjork Screening @ Deitch Studios Tonight and Tomorrow, 3/13 & 14This March 13th, Bjork's new music video Wanderlust (directed by Encyclopedia Pictura), will be screened in 3D at Deitch Studios!
Misnomer choreographed the video and two of our dancers (Coco and Brynne) perform in it alongside with Bjork. For those who cannot make it Thursday, there will be another screening FRIDAY at the Museum of Natural History. 
We're excited to officially announce the release date for Bjork's music video Wanderlust. Attendance for the viewing is first-come, first-serve, so arrive early.
The choreographic and artistic process on this project was very rewarding, and we're excited to be sharing this work with you. Once the video is released, check our flickr page for a behind the scenes look.
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From Deitch.com :
Jeffrey Deitch and Encyclopedia Pictura invite you to a public screening of Björk's new video, Wanderlust, in 3D on March 13th from 7-9 PM at Deitch Studios. First come first serve.
Deitch Studios can be reached by taking either the E or V Train to the 23rd Street/Ely, the G train to LIC/Court Square or the 7 train to 45 Road/Court House Square. Walk down 44th drive to the water's edge. Deitch Studios is located on the left hand side. Posted by Jaki Levy at 6:56 AM - Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0) December 31, 2007Dance on the Web in 2007There's a great article in the New York Times about the rise of dance on the web. The article has a screenshot of Dance Theater Workshop's site, designed by The Studio for Interactive Media.
The article does a nice job of laying out a few approaches. There are as many approaches to connecting online as there are sites. Camille Brown says, "A year ago it wasn't really geared toward business, but in the past six months it's been turning into that. The amount of contacts you can have -- you can send out a bulletin about your show, and all of your friends, whether it's 1,000 people or whatever, can find out about it. You can reach so many people." Business and tickets sales are definitely a driving force. However, there are many other aspects to connecting online. When Jennifer Alexander died in a car crash this December, the dance community paid tribute to her on The Winger. The posts were touching, thoughtful, and caring. Whether, it's posting on MySpace, writing a blog, or even sending out mass emails, this personal touch drives the work I am doing. In this coming year, I am personally excited to continue to connect with others in the dance world and to build growing relationships - both online and offline. Happy New Year! (posted by Jaki Levy) Posted by Jaki Levy at 12:50 PM - Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0) December 26, 2007Engaging Audiences OnlineThere has been so much interesting dialogue and idea exchange happening here on Great Dance. It seems that there are a growing number of ways that the arts can use web technologies to create new modes of support for artists, while also creating more engaging ways for audiences to feel involved with the art, the artists, and the artistic process.In particular, the web offers ways to leverage the size of the arts community to develop tools and services that benefit the arts at large.  A perfect example of this is the way that Fractured Atlas, an arts service organization, is able to negotiate better health care plans for artists by serving a wide population of artists. Large numbers of people can create positive impacts. As the artistic director of Misnomer Dance Theater, I've been looking at ways to contribute not only to Misnomer Dance, but the arts as well. For example, we are currently competing as an Ideablob finalist to win $10,000 to develop web tools aimed at helping performing arts groups to build and broaden online audience involvement. The prize goes to the idea that receives the most online user votes. The contest funds $10K to an initiative every month and runs through March. (You can check out and vote for our entry here before Dec. 31st, or register and submit your own idea for next month's contest!) We think this is a great example of a creative way that online arts communities can raise funds to help the arts without making direct contributions themselves. Since creating this entry on IdeaBlob, we have received great support for this project as well as some constructive feedback. Are there other online methods that you've found to help groups raise funds for the arts without individual personal contributions? If so, let us know by leaving a comment. Together, we can help generate ideas that artists can test and use so that we can all grow the arts together. Posted by Chris Elam at 6:25 PM - Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) December 18, 2007Extending Dance Magazine's Interview with Chris ElamDance Magazine's December 2007 issue featured an article by Kina Poon called Dance Wide Web. Kina interviewed Chris Elam, Misnomer's artistic director, for the feature which focused on how dance companies like Misnomer and others are using the web. Chris came up with the idea of recording the conversation with Kina so that you could hear some of the thoughts that could not make its way into the article. I took the video of Chris talking on the phone and placed past choreography and experiments on top of the conversation to give the conversation more context. I hope this supplemental material gives you additional insight into Dance Magazine's great article. Related Links: Visit Dance Magazine Read the Article Posted by Jaki Levy at 9:49 PM - Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) October 18, 2007Welcome to the Misnomer BlogStarting last year, we started an acitve blog on our homesite: www.misnomer.org/blog. Since then, we've seen a growth in participation and an expansion of our audience. Now that we're participating in Great Dance, we hope this reach will allow us to hear from an even more diverse audience. Throughout this process, we aim to de-code some of the aspects of what it means to run an emerging dance company these days. We are looking to expose some of the aspects that are usually only experienced by the artists themselves. Traditionally, an audience only interacts with a dance company for two hours a year, during one night in the theater, and then nothing else. We hope to provide you an interesting way to gain further insight into our work, and share in some of the added excitement which has led us to dedicated our lives to this form.
Upcoming posts will feature Misnomer's project with Bjork, and the New York Times visits Misnomer's office. Stay tuned! We're thrilled to be part of this great community and can't wait to hear from you!!!
Best,
Chris
Posted by Chris Elam at 11:14 AM - Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) October 17, 2007Misnomer's Unpacked Video SeriesWelcome to the Misnomer dance blog with Great Dance! We are excited to have the chance to explore ideas with you. Our blog will cover a range of aspects, including insights into our working method both in the studio and in all aspects of our company. We will also focus on thoughts about improving ways of engaging with audiences both online and in the theater. For our first post, we're featuring a new video made by one of our dancers, Dorian Nuskind-Oder. The video is part of the "Misnomer Unpacked" series. Posted by Chris Elam at 3:56 PM - Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) |
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