"Ms. Mansur is a highly focused and precise mover with imagination and daring and a look of unshakable physical balance overlaid with delicacy." The New York Times

Sharon Mansur is a performer, improviser, choreographer, teacher and community organizer, relocated to Minnesota from the East Coast in 2005. With a "combination of physical strength, playful wit, and ease of movement" (Washington CityPaper) Sharon Mansur has performed her own choreography and improvisation to critical acclaim since 1991.

Her choreography and directed improvisations have been presented internationally at the Teatro de Danza in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the Dartington International Improvisation Festival in England; in New York City at the DanceNow Downtown Dance Festival, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and Sarah Lawrence College; in Minnesota by Winona State University, Kinetic Kitchen and the 9 by 22 Series; and throughout the East Coast, particularly in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area. Recent East Coast performances include the Goose Route Dance Festival (WV), Capital Fringe Festival (DC), and Solar 1 Dance Festival (NYC). She has been awarded support for her work from the John F. Kennedy Center Local Dance Commissioning Project, Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council, The Bossak-Heilbron Foundation, and the West Virginia Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Sharon established her own performance project, mansurdance in 2002 which includes several dance, music and visual arts collaborators. She has also been fortunate enough to perform and collaborate with dance artists Sara Rudner (NY), Daniel Burkholder (DC), Cyrus Khambatta (WA), Joanna Rotkin (CO), Jess Curtis and Stephanie Maher (CA), Clare Byrne (NY), and Maida Withers (DC), among others. Her background includes training in post-modern dance, contact improvisation, LMA, somatics, visual arts and music. Sharon is currently an Assistant Professor in the Theatre & Dance department at Winona State University, MN. She holds an M.F.A. in dance from George Mason University, a B.A. in dance and English from Connecticut College, is a Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst and a reiki practitioner.