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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).
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