Basic Organization Information
Misnomer
- Also Known As:
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Misnomer Dance Theater
- Physical Address:
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Brooklyn, NY
11218
- EIN:
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26-1418868
- Web URL:
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www.misnomer.org
- NTEE Category:
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A Arts, Culture, and Humanities
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A62 Dance
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A Arts, Culture, and Humanities
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A20 Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
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A Arts, Culture, and Humanities
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A60 Performing Arts
- Year Founded:
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2007
- Ruling Year:
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2008
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Mission Statement
To create and present original dance and movement-based art, to develop new tools and methods of audience engagement, and to explore and implement innovative models for the arts community.
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Leadership
Chris Elam
Profile:
<p>Heralded as “a true original” (The New York Times), whose “clarity of vision delights the soul” (the Village Voice), Founding Artistic Director and CEO Chris Elam’s work for Misnomer has toured to over 300 theaters in fourteen countries, and the breadth of his creativity is exhibited by artistic collaborations and projects with Bjork, the Sundance Channel, Apple Computers and the Danish Dance Theater. <br /></p>
<p>Having choreographed since the age of 14, Elam founded Misnomer during his senior year of college. He graduated from Brown University in public policy, focused on federal involvement in the arts, and computer science, before receiving his MFA in Dance from NYU Tisch. An active teacher, he has served as faculty at Brown University and The State Conservatory for the Arts in Turkey, and has been a guest choreographer and teacher at over twenty universities. <br /></p>
<p>An advocate for the smart use of technology for audience engagement in the arts, Elam has been an invited speaker at many of the country’s foremost arts, business and technology conferences, including Fortune Magazine’s Brainstorm: TECH, the National Arts Marketing Project, and TEDxEast. Elam serves on the advisory board of the Americans for the Arts’ National Arts Marketing Project, and frequently participates in panels to provide advocacy for the arts.</p>
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Program:
Dance Programs
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- Category:
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Arts, Culture & Humanities
- Population Served:
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Adults
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
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Aging/Elderly/Senior Citizens
Program Description:
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Dance Programs - The development and presentation of new dance works and dance-based
projects.</p>
Program Long-Term Success:
Misnomer has performed its works at over 300 venues throughout New York City, across the USA, and in 14 countries and the world. Our production “Throw People/Land Flat” was named by <em>The New York Times </em>as “one of the top ten dance performances of the year”, and earned Misnomer a position as one of the “25 to Watch” in <em>Dance Magazine</em>. We have presented regular NYC seasons of work at spaces such as The Skirball Center for the Performing Arts and Symphony Space, enjoyed residencies at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, and collaborated with the likes of Bjork, Evan Ziporyn of the Bang on a Can All-stars, and the Danish Dance Theatre.
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Outreach Programs
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- Category:
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Arts, Culture & Humanities
- Population Served:
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Adults
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
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Aging/Elderly/Senior Citizens
Program Description:
<p > · Outreach Programs: Contributing to
the larger arts and intellectual community</p>
Program Long-Term Success:
Misnomer regularly performs and teaches in schools and universities
across the United States and abroad, and is frequently a featured speaker at
technology conferences, including; Fortune’s Brainstorm: Tech Conference,
Carnegie Mellon’s Technology in the Arts Conference, the Arts and Business
Council of NYC, and the TEDxEast Conference. Misnomer also offers programming
to companies and universities using the arts as the basis for developing
communication skills, team-building, and creative thinking.
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Program:
Audience Engagement Programs
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Arts, Culture & Humanities
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Adults
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Children and Youth (infants - 19 years.)
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Aging/Elderly/Senior Citizens
Program Description:
<p >Audience Engagement Programs - Bringing artists
and audiences together through interactive strategies</p>
Program Long-Term Success:
<p >Misnomer Dance Theater keystone audience
engagement program is our platform, GoSeeDo.org. GoSeeDo.org is a web platform
and service designed as a sector-wide solution for reducing the barriers that
separate audiences from the richness of the arts. Rather than using the web as
a traditional static storefront, Misnomer has worked to transform its web
platform into a dynamic hub of two-way communication so that audiences are part
of the inside experience. This platform is public and freely available for use.
Over one hundred artists and arts organizations are using it to deepen the
experiences that they offer to their audiences.</p>
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