Sharon Mansur 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, the Minnesota State Arts Board, Springboard for the Arts, and The McKnight Foundation.  She has been a full-time dance faculty member at Winona State University and the University of Maryland, guest artist at various universities, festivals and summer programs and is also a therapeutic bodyworker. She currently makes her home in the Mississippi River town of Winona/Keoxa, Minnesota/Mne Sota Makoce, Dakota Land, in a little grey house with a bright yellow mailbox and a cat named Juniper Moon.
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