Sharon Mansur (she/her) is an Arab/SWANA American experimental dance and interdisciplinary artist whose creative work integrates visual and visceral landscapes, finding expression as live art events, public art happenings, performance installations, and dances on film. Improvisation as a research and performance form is a particular love, integrating inner and outer perceptions, and embodying subtle layers of presence, identity, and memory. Since 1991, Sharon's multi-dimensional projects have been experienced in theaters, galleries, parks, parking lots, street corners, gardens, cafés, apartments, train stations, empty storefronts, fields, rivers and other intriguing and often surprising locales throughout the U.S. and internationally. Sharon started mansurdance in 2002, in cahoots with near and far flung artists. In recent years her creative investigations have been supported by the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council, Minnesota State Arts Board, Springboard for the Arts, Winona Fine Arts Commission, and The McKnight Foundation. Sharon teaches at various universities, festivals and summer dance programs and is currently an adjunct dance professor at St. Mary's University. She is also a therapeutic bodyworker integrating massage therapy, reiki, craniosacral therapy and somatics.. Sharon currently makes her home in the Mississippi River town of Keoxa/Winona, Mne Sota Makoce/MN, Dakota Land.
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Header: dance film still from INSERT[coda]HERE, director of photography Brian Harris