past...present...and periodic...
Nick Bryson, (he/him) from Belfast, has degrees in dance from universities in Leeds and Amsterdam and masters in Contemporary Dance Performance from University of Limerick. As a choreographer he has an international profile with Hanging in There with Damian Punch, the trio Touching Distance (Ireland/Mexico), the co-choreographed 2012 quartet Second Hand Landscapes (Ireland/Cyprus/Bulgaria) and the duet with Jeff Wallace Balls to Receptivity. Works include with UK-based choreographer Robin Dingemans (Compass Commission) and with Sharon Mansur INSERT [ ] HERE in the U.S.
Daniel Burkholder (he/him) is a choreographer, improviser, performer, teacher, and lighting designer. His choreographic work has been commissioned by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, presented throughout the Americas, and spans theatrical performances, site-specific events, immersive media, and screendance. He has received two Metro DC Dance Awards for Emerging Performer and Outstanding Group Performance in a Dance Production, as well as Fellowships from the Maryland State Art Council for Individual Performance and Choreography. He was a Resident Artist at the Djerassi Artist Residency (CA), taught as a guest teacher for Cirque du Soleil, and was an artist-in-residence for 5 years at Georgetown University Hospital. Burkholder and Mansur co-directed Quiescence, a Washington, DC based dance/performance group, and have collaborated as a creative duo for over two decades.
Ronit Eisenbach is a visual artist and architect whose creative and scholarly efforts are located at the intersection of the two disciplines. With an extensive resume of collaborative designs, installations and exhibitions throughout the U.S. and abroad, Eisenbach is a member of the University of Maryland Architecture faculty, Eisenbach's creative and scholarly work has been supported by the Center for Creative Research, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, a University of Maryland Creative and Performing Arts Grant, the Great Lakes Fabricators and Erectors Association, the Graham Foundation, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the University of Michigan Arts of Citizenship program, the Maryland State Arts Council, and the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. In 2019, Eisenbach launched a new initiative in creative placemaking with UMD National Center for Smart Growth. The Maryland Creative Placemaking Collaborative (MCPC) advances the goals of the Purple Line Development agreement but is intended to engage in communities well beyond the purple line corridor and advance research and practice in this new emerging field. Ronit and Sharon's dance and architecture projects include: Underneath, Out of Place and Placeholders. Their projects have also been featured in Project Anywhere: http://www.projectanywhere.net/ronit-eisenbach-sharon-mansur-in-situ-exploring-sites-in-transition/
Christy Fisher (she/her) is a movement based artist who draws inspiration from culturally diverse movement forms, often blending elements with contemporary western approaches. Working collaboratively and in multidisciplinary contexts, she approaches each project as a process of stripping away to find what is authentic, real and spontaneous. Internationally recognized collaborators include the Fisher Ensemble; composers Amy Denio and Susie Kozawa; artists Kristin Tollefson and Louise McCagg; choreographers, Sharon Mansur and Sheri Brown, and literary and performance artist, Amontaine Aurore. Fisher has also been honored to perform in the work of Haruko Nishimura (Seattle) and as a company member of Works/Laura Glenn Dance (NYC). Sharon and Christy originally met at Connecticut College and most recently collaborated on Cocoon.
Brian Harris (he/him) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose creative explorations have included mixed media visual art, music,, video, music composition and performance, modern dance and performance art. He has a BFA in Visual Communication from Maryland Institute College of Art, and currently designs web and mobile content with the Mag 7 Collective. He has collaborated with Sharon Mansur as director of photography for the dance films variation on residue, and INSERT [coda] HERE.
Maré Hieronimus (she/her) is a New Mexico based interdisciplinary dance artist, performer and teacher whose performative work lies at the intersection of contemporary dance, sound, story, and imagery. Often working as a solo performer, and drawing from her interests in archetype, memory, and dreams, she creates abstract and psychic landscapes using the body in motion as the primary impulse. As a dancer she has had the opportunity to perform extensively, touring Russia, Siberia, Canada, Brazil and Mexico. The Body Archive is the umbrella for her teaching work, which is a synthesis of her studies in contemporary dance, yoga, somatic practice and Ayurveda. Maré has been working with Sharon since 2000 and their collaborations include the companion duets topology and leveling.
Making his home in the Mississippi River town of Winona, Minnesota, Mike Munson (he/him) is well known for playing slide guitar blues. The driving rhythms in his songs are reminiscent of the trains that barrel through his neighborhood. Munson makes regular appearances throughout the Midwest, and is his third release was "Rose Hill" in 2018, following a debut studio recording and the acclaimed "Live at Ed's" releases in 2014. Mike has appeared in two SHIFT~ performance salons and created original music for the ...in the space between dance film.
Tara Rodgers (she/her) is a composer, historian and critic of electronic music. She holds an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College and a PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University. She has presented work at the Tate Modern, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, on the Le Tigre Remix album, and in many other forums. She is the author of Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound (Duke UP, 2010), a collection of interviews that won the 2011 Pauline Alderman Book Award from the International Alliance for Women in Music, and numerous essays on music, technology, and culture. She has taught at Dartmouth College, the University of Maryland, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She currently serves on the editorial board of Leonardo Music Journal. Tara created original music for the INSERT [ ] HERE performance/installation project and the INSERT[coda]HERE dance film.
Joanna Rotkin: (she/her)I make dances and I teach dance classes. Both are focused on noticing the breath -- the inhale, the exhale, and the gaps in between.I'm curious about what emerges from that noticing. I'm curious to about stripping away notions of what dance is and starting from a place of not knowing anything. My work, in teaching and in performance, focuses on listening to each moment that emerges within the body, and then meeting that moment as it is, through movement and stillness.
Jo and Sharon intersect improvisationally and through an ongoing creative dialogue.
Sydney Swanson (she/her) is a dancer, photographer, dance filmmaker, and healing arts practitioner recently relocated to Rochester, MN. Winona had been her home for nearly half her life and the river town and its inhabitants continue to shape her consciousness and inspire her. In the last year and a half she has been redefining her relationship to art and healing arts and is curious how the two intersect, inform, and support each other. She is grateful for the many connections she has made and looks forward to the unfolding of these connections in her life. Most recently Sydney was the director of photography for the 1001 Arab Futures dance film.
woolen lover (they/them) is a sound and movement artist based in Winona, MN. They blend organic found sounds with electronic sensibilities. keeping it simple while also reaching for complexity, interest, the heart of the world. Through the limits and possibilities of the loop pedal, woolen lover layers words, sound, movement and meaning. 1001 Arab Futures is woolen lover's most recent creative collaboration with Mansur.
Plus: all of the amazing SHIFT~ performance salon artists....and more!
Placeholders, created by Ronit Eisenbach & Sharon Mansur, 2014, photo by Zachary Z. Handler
Nick Bryson, (he/him) from Belfast, has degrees in dance from universities in Leeds and Amsterdam and masters in Contemporary Dance Performance from University of Limerick. As a choreographer he has an international profile with Hanging in There with Damian Punch, the trio Touching Distance (Ireland/Mexico), the co-choreographed 2012 quartet Second Hand Landscapes (Ireland/Cyprus/Bulgaria) and the duet with Jeff Wallace Balls to Receptivity. Works include with UK-based choreographer Robin Dingemans (Compass Commission) and with Sharon Mansur INSERT [ ] HERE in the U.S.
Daniel Burkholder (he/him) is a choreographer, improviser, performer, teacher, and lighting designer. His choreographic work has been commissioned by The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, presented throughout the Americas, and spans theatrical performances, site-specific events, immersive media, and screendance. He has received two Metro DC Dance Awards for Emerging Performer and Outstanding Group Performance in a Dance Production, as well as Fellowships from the Maryland State Art Council for Individual Performance and Choreography. He was a Resident Artist at the Djerassi Artist Residency (CA), taught as a guest teacher for Cirque du Soleil, and was an artist-in-residence for 5 years at Georgetown University Hospital. Burkholder and Mansur co-directed Quiescence, a Washington, DC based dance/performance group, and have collaborated as a creative duo for over two decades.
Ronit Eisenbach is a visual artist and architect whose creative and scholarly efforts are located at the intersection of the two disciplines. With an extensive resume of collaborative designs, installations and exhibitions throughout the U.S. and abroad, Eisenbach is a member of the University of Maryland Architecture faculty, Eisenbach's creative and scholarly work has been supported by the Center for Creative Research, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, a University of Maryland Creative and Performing Arts Grant, the Great Lakes Fabricators and Erectors Association, the Graham Foundation, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the University of Michigan Arts of Citizenship program, the Maryland State Arts Council, and the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. In 2019, Eisenbach launched a new initiative in creative placemaking with UMD National Center for Smart Growth. The Maryland Creative Placemaking Collaborative (MCPC) advances the goals of the Purple Line Development agreement but is intended to engage in communities well beyond the purple line corridor and advance research and practice in this new emerging field. Ronit and Sharon's dance and architecture projects include: Underneath, Out of Place and Placeholders. Their projects have also been featured in Project Anywhere: http://www.projectanywhere.net/ronit-eisenbach-sharon-mansur-in-situ-exploring-sites-in-transition/
Christy Fisher (she/her) is a movement based artist who draws inspiration from culturally diverse movement forms, often blending elements with contemporary western approaches. Working collaboratively and in multidisciplinary contexts, she approaches each project as a process of stripping away to find what is authentic, real and spontaneous. Internationally recognized collaborators include the Fisher Ensemble; composers Amy Denio and Susie Kozawa; artists Kristin Tollefson and Louise McCagg; choreographers, Sharon Mansur and Sheri Brown, and literary and performance artist, Amontaine Aurore. Fisher has also been honored to perform in the work of Haruko Nishimura (Seattle) and as a company member of Works/Laura Glenn Dance (NYC). Sharon and Christy originally met at Connecticut College and most recently collaborated on Cocoon.
Brian Harris (he/him) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose creative explorations have included mixed media visual art, music,, video, music composition and performance, modern dance and performance art. He has a BFA in Visual Communication from Maryland Institute College of Art, and currently designs web and mobile content with the Mag 7 Collective. He has collaborated with Sharon Mansur as director of photography for the dance films variation on residue, and INSERT [coda] HERE.
Maré Hieronimus (she/her) is a New Mexico based interdisciplinary dance artist, performer and teacher whose performative work lies at the intersection of contemporary dance, sound, story, and imagery. Often working as a solo performer, and drawing from her interests in archetype, memory, and dreams, she creates abstract and psychic landscapes using the body in motion as the primary impulse. As a dancer she has had the opportunity to perform extensively, touring Russia, Siberia, Canada, Brazil and Mexico. The Body Archive is the umbrella for her teaching work, which is a synthesis of her studies in contemporary dance, yoga, somatic practice and Ayurveda. Maré has been working with Sharon since 2000 and their collaborations include the companion duets topology and leveling.
Making his home in the Mississippi River town of Winona, Minnesota, Mike Munson (he/him) is well known for playing slide guitar blues. The driving rhythms in his songs are reminiscent of the trains that barrel through his neighborhood. Munson makes regular appearances throughout the Midwest, and is his third release was "Rose Hill" in 2018, following a debut studio recording and the acclaimed "Live at Ed's" releases in 2014. Mike has appeared in two SHIFT~ performance salons and created original music for the ...in the space between dance film.
Tara Rodgers (she/her) is a composer, historian and critic of electronic music. She holds an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College and a PhD in Communication Studies from McGill University. She has presented work at the Tate Modern, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, on the Le Tigre Remix album, and in many other forums. She is the author of Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound (Duke UP, 2010), a collection of interviews that won the 2011 Pauline Alderman Book Award from the International Alliance for Women in Music, and numerous essays on music, technology, and culture. She has taught at Dartmouth College, the University of Maryland, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She currently serves on the editorial board of Leonardo Music Journal. Tara created original music for the INSERT [ ] HERE performance/installation project and the INSERT[coda]HERE dance film.
Joanna Rotkin: (she/her)I make dances and I teach dance classes. Both are focused on noticing the breath -- the inhale, the exhale, and the gaps in between.I'm curious about what emerges from that noticing. I'm curious to about stripping away notions of what dance is and starting from a place of not knowing anything. My work, in teaching and in performance, focuses on listening to each moment that emerges within the body, and then meeting that moment as it is, through movement and stillness.
Jo and Sharon intersect improvisationally and through an ongoing creative dialogue.
Sydney Swanson (she/her) is a dancer, photographer, dance filmmaker, and healing arts practitioner recently relocated to Rochester, MN. Winona had been her home for nearly half her life and the river town and its inhabitants continue to shape her consciousness and inspire her. In the last year and a half she has been redefining her relationship to art and healing arts and is curious how the two intersect, inform, and support each other. She is grateful for the many connections she has made and looks forward to the unfolding of these connections in her life. Most recently Sydney was the director of photography for the 1001 Arab Futures dance film.
woolen lover (they/them) is a sound and movement artist based in Winona, MN. They blend organic found sounds with electronic sensibilities. keeping it simple while also reaching for complexity, interest, the heart of the world. Through the limits and possibilities of the loop pedal, woolen lover layers words, sound, movement and meaning. 1001 Arab Futures is woolen lover's most recent creative collaboration with Mansur.
Plus: all of the amazing SHIFT~ performance salon artists....and more!
Placeholders, created by Ronit Eisenbach & Sharon Mansur, 2014, photo by Zachary Z. Handler