The New York Times has described Mansur's work as "a tour de force of authoritative, evocative performing, its kaleidoscopic physical imagery voluptuous, elegiac and whittled keen from moment to moment."

As a contemporary dance artist my main focus is experimental multi-media performance in a wide range of traditional, non-traditional and site specific venues. Since 1991 I have been presenting works throughout the Washington, DC Metropolitan area, as well as in New York City, England and Argentina.

In 2002 I started mansurdance, continuing to develop multi-layered dances that integrate both improvisational and choreographic approaches, with an emphasis on the interplay of live sound and visual media, melding visual and visceral landscapes.

Our performances meld a strong sense of performance presence, with movement invention and qualitative nuance. I appreciate movement that is subtle and detailed, that accumulates over time, valuing what is seen as well as what is invisible to the eye but palpable nonetheless. I am interested in what we conceal and reveal as human beings, the dynamic relationship between the inner landscape of the body and mind and our outer environment.

Ongoing creative investigations concern exploring physical and visual language that expresses the personal awareness of self, including the dynamic and complex interplay between the public and private individual. My creative work is informed by my training and experiences with post-modern dance, contact improvisation, somatics, visual arts and music, as well as short and long term artistic collaborations with performing artists, musicians, and visual artists.

For the past seven years I have been particularly interested in questions of identity and perception of self from both internal and external perspectives. Works that reflect this theme include: here/there, which embodies a sense of self through presence and absence of a human figure in relation to rural and urban landscapes; Off White, which examines my Lebanese heritage and feeling of being not quite White; (Un)Identified, a solo investigating the mutable and subjective nature of self; Depth of Perception, an original commission created by David Dorfman and performed with Boris Willis embodying the tension between intimacy and otherness.

"[Mansur] doesn't choreograph her dances, she paints them…[she] has an eye for color and line, a knack for coursing her dancers through the unadorned space that leaves movement trails---after-images, if you will-that linger and blend with the ensuing action onstage," (The Washington Post).