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"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.
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