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.

Christopher Elam's Misnomer Dance Theater hit town with a force I haven't seen since the early days of Mark Morris.

Bizarre and comical, Chris Elam's Misnomer Dance Theater blurs the line between humans behaving weirdly and animals at play.

Chris Elam has fashioned a distinctive, engagingly bizarre choreographic style…his skill and clarity of vision delight the soul.

A True original, Mr. Elam is one of the most individualistic of modern dance voices today.

Absurd and poignant... wonderfully strange and unpredictable choreography.

Elam knows how to allow space and calm into his works. He seems well in control of his material and confident in the ability of movement and music to express something unique and persuasive.

If the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, don’t expect Elam to walk it.[Elam's work] makes you chuckle and recoil at the same time.

Elam’s juicy, elastic tumbling looks simultaneously innocent and darkly symbolic. His mythic and playful dances suggest something that might have happened at the dawn of the world.

If the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, don’t expect Elam to walk it.[Elam's work] makes you chuckle and recoil at the same time.

Terrifically weird.

The dancers' bodies served as a play environment.

Elam, who is more impossibly elongated than an El Greco Christ, frequently looks like a praying mantis or a goofy Hanuman.

Only partially resolves into dancing humans.

Fusion doesn’t begin to describe what’s going on here; Elam is annealing his influences, creating a taut, intense movement language quite remote from the ‘released’ style so common downtown.

Chris Elam is as flexible as a pretzel.

Perhaps throwing his viewers for a loop each time they think they can figure it all out is part of Chris Elam’s style.