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Bookings
Misnomer works closely with presenters and event planners to create multi-dimensional experiences for audiences. We conduct performances, talks, and workshops, and produce dynamic media that translates our work into online spaces. From working in depth with university students to presenting for 300 CEOs; from creating choreography for Bjork to giving keynote speeches at major conferences; Misnomer connects to communities through the art of dance to create earnest, educational, and enjoyable moments.
We work with you to create the experience you want for your audience, students, or employees. Click the tabs above for examples:
We work with you to create the experience you want for your audience, students, or employees. Click the tabs above for examples:
Drawing from their 14-work repertoire, including Throw People - which was named one of the “Top Ten Dance Performances in 2006” by The New York Times - Misnomer can design an evening that suits any presenter’s needs. To see a work sample, visit the video page or contact Melissa to request a DVD.
PRESENTER PARTNERSHIP & AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
In addition to performing our critically acclaimed choreography, we strive to form lasting relationships with your community that extend beyond the stage. Through workshops and outreach, we offer a cutting-edge audience development program that supports the relationship between you and your audiences. Business Week Magazine and The New York Times have featured Misnomer’s innovative methods of engaging new audiences.We Improve Your Reach to Next Gen'ers by Providing:
- * 5 hours of strategic consulting with Misnomer’s New Media Director and your staff
- * Dynamic and personalized content for your website that will serve as a window into the creative lives of the companies you present
- * Ongoing blogging about Misnomer’s work before, during, and after the engagement
- * Contact with young audiences members in your area through our extensive online, social network
- * Photos, testimonials, and video collected by our company while Misnomer is in your community
TALKS: Arts & Technology
Misnomer discusses their past interactive technology work with Apple Computers, as well as projects creating multimedia dances in Holland, working with the Sundance Channel, and choreographing for Bjork’s 3-D music video.TALKS: Intercultural Talks
Misnomer talks about creating choreographies in international contexts, during which they discuss their past work in Indonesia, Cuba, France, Ukraine, Turkey, Brazil, Ireland, Holland, and Denmark.THEATER HIGHLIGHTS:
Summer Stages Dance / Baryshnikov Arts Center
The Skirball Center for Performing Arts @ NYU
freedance Festival in Ukraine
Joyce Soho, December 2008
au foyer Roger Panouse in France
Chris Elam and Misnomer Dance Theater have taught classes, performed, choreographed on students, and given lecture-demonstrations through residencies at dozens of universities.
Elam is guided by an artistic philosophy that every individual is a powerful creative source. By coaching performance skills, choreography, improvisation, contact climbing, and partnering, Elam imparts skills and perspectives that encourage students to be inventive in the creation and execution of their own movement and choreography. To see Misnomer's work with students, contact Melissa to request a DVD.
Modern Technique
Trust Through Movement
Intercultural Considerations
Elam is guided by an artistic philosophy that every individual is a powerful creative source. By coaching performance skills, choreography, improvisation, contact climbing, and partnering, Elam imparts skills and perspectives that encourage students to be inventive in the creation and execution of their own movement and choreography. To see Misnomer's work with students, contact Melissa to request a DVD.
GUEST CHOREOGRAPHY / TEACHING
When Misnomer sets works on university students, we offer an educational and artistically meaningful experience that is student-focused. Elam teaches extensively in a range of performance-related subjects.UNIVERSITY CLASSES
Improbable Partnering and Exceptional Physical InteractionsModern Technique
Trust Through Movement
UNIVERSITY TALKS
Arts & TechnologyIntercultural Considerations
NEW MEDIA & CONSULTING
Misnomer consults and teaches institutional staff and students to develop field-appropriate approaches to new media, online videos and social networks. With our hands-on experience, we help you create and implement educational, artistic, and marketing strategies as well as to develop programming and curriculum.CROSS-CAMPUS & INTER-DEPARTMENTAL INITIATIVES
Elam has facilitated several large-scale, cross-campus and inter-departmental initiatives to integrate resources and offer comprehensive education.UNIVERSITY HIGHLIGHTS:
Brown University, Towson University,
Roger Williams University, Skidmore College,
Hofstra University, Manhattanville Collge
CONFERENCE TALKS & WORKSHOPS
Trust and Thought Through MovementNew Media and Consulting
Web 2.0: Engaging Audience and Building Loyalty
Diversity: Leaving Comfort Zones in Search for Common Grounds
CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS:
Fortune Magazine Tech Conference
Pop Tech
Dance / USA Winter Forum
Fuel for Arts
For your reference, the following slideshow is part of a speech New Media Director, Jaki Levy gave on New models for Distribution and Production in Arts Organizations for Soundstreams New Models of Distribution Conference in Canada:
Misnomer offers programming to corporations that uses the arts as the basis for developing communications skills, team-building, and creative thinking.
Inspire your company’s management through leadership workshops. Affirm your employees through teambuilding and human interaction exercises. Let Chris Elam and Misnomer Dance Theater breathe vision and inspiration into your company today.
Talks and workshops are available in team building, cross-cultural collaboration, technology and the arts, social entrepreneurship, and other subjects. To see a work sample, visit the video page or contact Melissa to request a DVD.
New Media and Consulting
Web 2.0: Engaging Audience and Building Loyalty
Diversity: Leaving Comfort Zones in Search for Common Grounds
Inspire your company’s management through leadership workshops. Affirm your employees through teambuilding and human interaction exercises. Let Chris Elam and Misnomer Dance Theater breathe vision and inspiration into your company today.
Talks and workshops are available in team building, cross-cultural collaboration, technology and the arts, social entrepreneurship, and other subjects. To see a work sample, visit the video page or contact Melissa to request a DVD.
CORPORATE PERFORMANCES
Performances can be tailored to suit your venue and audience, as well as your budget and time considerations. Engagements can range in length from a single half-hour performance to a day-long performance and workshop combination. Chris Elam and Misnomer Dance Theater are happy to customize our offerings to meet your company's needs. Rates are available upon request.CORPORATE TALKS & WORKSHOPS
Trust and Thought Through MovementNew Media and Consulting
Web 2.0: Engaging Audience and Building Loyalty
Diversity: Leaving Comfort Zones in Search for Common Grounds
CORPORATE HIGHLIGHTS:
Crain’s Business NY
Business Week Magazine
The Wall Street Journal
The New York Times, Business Section
Book Misnomer
To learn more about Misnomer’s booking opportunities or for full DVDs of Company Performance and its works on students, contact
Melissa Gilliam, Bookings Manager for Chris Elam / Misnomer Dance Theater.
314-346-3868
melissa@misnomer.org
NEWS
Crain's New York Features Misnomer Crain's NY has featured Chris Elam and Misnomer Dance Theater's capacity to engage corporate audiences through performance, workshops, and talks in its May 5th issue.
view our corporate bookings page
Business Week features Misnomer
IDEABLOB WINNERS!
THANK YOU!!! With your support, we won $10k in December's IdeaBlob Contest.
Misnomer is awarded the first Summer Stages Dance/Baryshnikov Arts Center Artist Residency.
Collaborations
BJORK's new music video Wanderlust uses choreography by Misnomer.
Apple Computers shoots a documentary about Misnomer featured on Apple's homepage.
Misnomer + Motion Capture
As part of a feature on Motion Capture, Business Week included Misnomer's work in the realm of motion capture.
RES DIGITAL FILM FESTIVAL and RES magazine features Misnomer digitized through motion-capture technology to use as the trailer for the ongoing RES screening series.
