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. Subscribe to Body and Soul podcast at http://magickaleva.hipcast.com/rss/bodyandsoul.xml. (c)2007, Eva Yaa Asantewaa