September 25, 2007

Interview with Chris Elam of Misnomer Dance Theater

Chris Elam, who recently became the first recipient of the Summer Stages Dance/Baryshnikov Arts Center residency, is truly a dance artist for the 21st Century--a brilliant, probing maker of dance that expresses the protean nature of the human body, mind, and spirit; an explorer of the myriad ways in which people communicate; and an innovator of Internet community-building and artistic marketing. I had a wide-ranging talk with Elam, founder and artistic director of Misnomer Dance Theater, about the origins and intent of his unusually powerful choreography and about his latest and upcoming projects.

Listen to audio interview with Chris Elam (MP3 - 38 minutes)

Misnomer Multimedia

View this annotated photograph on Flickr of Misnomer rehearsal at The Yard this July:

A rehearsal video of The Yard performance work (Misnomer blog post):

Video documentary of rehearsals at The Yard showing how Misnomer captures video of rehearsals in real-time (Misnomer blog post):

View following video excerpts of Misnomer performances on their website:

Chris Elam Bio

Chris Elam graduated magna cum laude from Brown University and received his MFA in Dance from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Since founding Misnomer Dance Theater his work has been performed in over 100 theaters across the USA, Cuba, Brazil, Indonesia, and Turkey. Elam's work has met critical acclaim including a featured article in Dance Magazine, interviews in The New Yorker and The New York Times, and reviews in numerous publications. Elam had been a guest faculty and choreographer at numerous schools and universities, and is presently teaching at Brown University, and is guest choreographer at both Manhattanville college and Hoftra University. (Read complete bio...)

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