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Bizarre and comical, Chris Elam's Misnomer Dance Theater blurs the line between humans behaving weirdly and animals at play. "Throw People," a two-part concert that premiered in May at P.S. 122, will run August 17-27 at The Brooklyn Lyceum. There is plenty of throwing, along with climbing, contorting, balancing, and twisting - all on the surfaces of their bodies. Dancers with elastic limbs lurk in releve and slap at each other's elongated bodies. Elam choreographs from his background of traditional Balinese as well as modern dance, and his six-member Misnomer Dance Theater has performed in places such as Indonesia and Turkey. This summer extends their travels to virtual space when Apple Computers launched a documentary featuring the company on their homepage, www.apple.com. See www.misnomer.org. - Emily Macel