Sharon Mansur is a multi-media dance artist based in the Washington, DC area and has shared her work in theaters, galleries, parks, street corners, apartments, train stations, storefronts, fields, rivers and other venues throughout the U.S. and abroad. She focuses on improvisation as a performance form as well as the melding of visual and visceral landscapes. Since 2002 Mansur has directed mansurdance, an ongoing collaborative performance project that integrates choreography, improvisation and experimental multi-media performance in traditional, alternative and site specific venues.

Since 1991 her work has been presented throughout the MidAtlantic region, including Washington, DC at Dance Place, The John F. Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage, the Capital Fringe Festival, among others; in New York City at Dixon Place, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Galapagos Performance Space, the Dancenow Downtown Dance Festival and Sarah Lawrence College; in Minnesota through the Kinetic Kitchen Series, the 9 by 22 Series at Bryant Lake Bowl and Winona State University; the Goose Route Dance Festival, the Contemporary American Theater Festival and throughout the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia; in England at the Dartington International Improvisation Festival, and at Teatro de Danza in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Sharon has been fortunate to collaborate and perform with numerous contemporary dance artists including Daniel Burkholder, Clare Byrne, Body Cartography, Kitty Clark, Jess Curtis, Maré Hieronimus, Cyrus Khambatta, Amii LeGendre, Stephanie Maher, Joanna Rotkin, Marcy Schlissel, Ginger Wagg and Maida Withers among others, as well as sound artists Kelly Cornelius, Alexandra Gardner and Lucas Zarwell, photographer Ali Herischi, photographer/videographer Todd Clark, visual artist Felicia Glidden, architect Ronit Eisenbach, and video artist Boris Willis.

Sharon danced for Sara Rudner in New York City from 1998-2000, and was a core cast member of Rudner's four hour Dancing on View, reconstructed and performed at St. Mark's Church for Danspace Project's 25th Anniversary Silver Series in 1999. Sharon was a co-curator for the 2001and 2002 DC International Improvisation Festivals, and performed and taught at the festival from 1996-2004. She has also been on faculty at the Wild Meadows Improvisation Intensive in 2000, 2007 and 2009. Sharon co-directed Quiescence, a DC based contemporary dance/performance project with Daniel Burkholder from 1992-1998.

She received support from the Bossak-Heilbron Charitable Foundation in 2002 for the creation of the improvisationally based work Still Life. Sharon's site-specific improvisational performance work, in collaboration with Kitty Clark, was funded by the West Virginia Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Arts and Humanities Alliance of Jefferson County. In 2004 she was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship in Choreography from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, and a John F. Kennedy Center Local Dance Commission. In 2008 she was awarded a Creative and Performing Arts Award from the University of Maryland for the creation of semblance during the 2009-2010 season. And Sharon received an Individual Artist Award in Solo Dance Performance from the Maryland State Arts Council for 2010.

Sharon is currently an Assistant Professor in the department of dance at the University of Maryland has taught at numerous Washington DC area studios and colleges including Dance Place, American University, George Mason University, George Washington University, Goucher College, and Howard University. She holds an M.F.A. in Dance from George Mason University, a B.A. in Dance and English from Connecticut College, and is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst (CMA).