Live from New York, it's...Misnomer!

Chris Elam's Misnomer Dance Theater, nearing the conclusion of its run at Joyce Soho, will broadcast the first ever live webcast of a New York City downtown dance show on Sunday, December 14 at 8pm. Elam's premiere, Being Together, will be available to watch live on the Misnomer Web site, featuring a live chat with online audience members. Visit the site now for more information.

Chris Elam's high-tech vision

Dance - Point Toe, Click Mouse
by Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times, November 23, 2008

Bjork + Elam = Wanderlust

Body and Soul interviewee Chris Elam invites you to Bjork’s Wanderlust Screening @ Deitch tonight!

Can't make it? You can catch another screening on Friday evening at the American Museum of Natural History. For those details, click here.

Congratulations to Chris Elam and Misnomer Dance Theater

Misnomer Dance Theater wins Ideablob's $10,000 contest: developing online tools for the arts

Background

Chris Elam of Misnomer Dance Theater

Chris Elam, the first recipient of the new 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. In September 2007, 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.

Update: Chris invites you to vote for Misnomer Dance Theater, a finalist in the IdeaBlob contest with a proposal to build online tools for the dance world. For more information and to cast your vote, see http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/
906-Impact-the-arts-Enable-perform.

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(c)2007, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

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Vote for dance online

Chris Elam of Misnomer Dance Theater writes:

"I wanted to let you know about a new series of free tools that we are developing to serve the performing arts and to ask for your help in getting the word out about an opportunity that we have to win $10,000 to help us create them. If you can read the blurb below, and if you have a context to do so, share it, this would be greatly appreciated. The contest runs for all of December, but the votes between now and Dec 7th are the most important so if you can help spread the word in the next few days that would be especially appreciated. Thank you for your consideration. I send my best wishes!"

Misnomer Dance Theater has put together a proposal to build online tools for the dance world. Please take two minutes to vote for us on IdeaBlob to win $10,000 toward building these tools to share with dance and theater artists to help them increase bookings and revenue and give online audiences more engaging experiences. The web has created new opportunities for artists and we are asking you to help enable us to build these resources for the arts. This first round of voting ends December 7th, so we need you to support our idea on IdeaBlob today! With your vote and this $10k, we'll be creating exciting ways for people to discover arts online! Vote here.

What will Misnomer do if we win $10,000 for this idea?

Your vote will help us:

1) BUILD web-streaming capabilities for rehearsals enabling audiences to "attend" live rehearsals online and interact directly with artists.

2) CREATE an online theater in which visitors can watch and direct performances from multiple perspectives including back stage views, and performers' point of view via body mounted cameras.

3) DEVELOP tools to request and display the geography of artists online audiences. Venues in new cities can then have ready-made audience bases.

We hope these online tools will help transform artist's websites into sites of participation. We anticipate this will create great impact in the arts world!

VOTE FOR US on IdeaBlob (reg req'd)! Or, heck, register your own idea!

"For people who want to be better informed, the Internet itself is the key. For those who want to join the process, the Web is where we merely start." -- Dan Gillmor, We the Media