Artistic Director & CEO, Misnomer
Chris Elam is the Founding Artistic Director and CEO of Misnomer Dance Theater, an award-winning innovative dance company based in NYC. Heralded as “a true original” (The New York Times), whose “clarity of vision delights the soul” (The Village Voice), Elam’s work with Misnomer has toured globally in fourteen countries and the breadth of his creative projects includes choreographing for Bjork, the Sundance Channel, Apple Computers and the Danish Dance Theatre. An innovator in connecting people with the arts, Misnomer has developed GoSeeDo, an audience engagement web platform designed to give audiences new ways to directly interact with artists and incorporate arts into their lives. Elam is a frequent speaker at conferences ranging from TEDx to Fortune Magazine’s Brainstorm Tech summit.www.misnomer.org
