QUOTES
"Sharon has given the community here a gift. It is precious. A glimpse of herself and how her cultural experience has been part of her. How sense of place and people, heart and physical being, filled with spirit and wonder---how this makes us who we are. Our dreams and stories are who were are. The food and multi-media were a perfect way to engage us on all on many levels."
- Winona MN audience member, Dreaming Under a Cedar Tree, Fall 2017
"…Sharon Mansur’s devastatingly beautiful INSERT[coda]HERE, which makes her immensity so quietly and thrillingly present
that I pledge myself always to be her champion and also to stalk her by any means available."
-Irene Hsaio, RADFest 2016 https://irenechsiao.wordpress.com
“…an abstract realm where meaning is revealed by slow drip rather than steady stream. … rooted in individual impulse…here/there...(for one) …was a fine showcase for her [Mansur’s] light, delicate dancing…”
-Sarah Halzacks, The Washington Post
"Her performance of residue carried a drama in its vulnerability. She appeared in the street through the curtains of the front window, wrapped in a sheet of light paper, as if in defiance of the heavy snow and cold outside and a bright contrast to the darkly bundled figures huddling past."
-Sarah Valeri, visual artist, sarahvaleri.wordpress.com
"Longtime collaborators and improvisers extraordinaire, Burkholder and Mansur are silky dancers who fill a space with movement that’s alternately athletic and subtle—but always contains an element of watchfulness.”
-Amanda Abrams, Washington CityPaper, Spring Arts Guide
"Seeing them together, they make a curious couple, he [Daniel Burkholder] is tall and broad but light on his feet and moves with wide swaths of energy while she [Mansur] is small, quick and full of mischief....they strike a balance that is both delightful and mesmerizing."
-Boris Willis, Pink Line Project/Pink Noise
“…both Burkholder and Mansur are such smooth, watchful movers that the show’s on-the-spot creation might not be immediately obvious.”
-Amanda Abrams, Washington CityPaper
“….visually creative...an evening of visual surprises and startling images...an exciting evening and a feather in the cap for this enduring duo…”
-Pamela Squires, The Washington Post
“They [Daniel Burkholder & Sharon Mansur] are listening: to each other, to the space, to the dance that unfolds beautifully, carefully, exuberantly before us.”
–Megan Bridge, Thinkingdance.net, Falls Bridge Festival of New Movement, Improvisation & Performance, Philadelphia
“It was Mansur & Eisenbach’s Underneath that accomplished what site-specific work should: alter a space or one’s experience of that space.”
–Lisa Traiger, DanceViewTimes
“…. these choreographers [Mansur, Sara Pearson, Patrik Widrig] burble with ideas and warmly embrace the notion of collaborating with their dancers. There is a lot of intellectual meat on the bones of all three.”
-Pamela Squires, The Washington Post
"Sharon has given the community here a gift. It is precious. A glimpse of herself and how her cultural experience has been part of her. How sense of place and people, heart and physical being, filled with spirit and wonder---how this makes us who we are. Our dreams and stories are who were are. The food and multi-media were a perfect way to engage us on all on many levels."
- Winona MN audience member, Dreaming Under a Cedar Tree, Fall 2017
"…Sharon Mansur’s devastatingly beautiful INSERT[coda]HERE, which makes her immensity so quietly and thrillingly present
that I pledge myself always to be her champion and also to stalk her by any means available."
-Irene Hsaio, RADFest 2016 https://irenechsiao.wordpress.com
“…an abstract realm where meaning is revealed by slow drip rather than steady stream. … rooted in individual impulse…here/there...(for one) …was a fine showcase for her [Mansur’s] light, delicate dancing…”
-Sarah Halzacks, The Washington Post
"Her performance of residue carried a drama in its vulnerability. She appeared in the street through the curtains of the front window, wrapped in a sheet of light paper, as if in defiance of the heavy snow and cold outside and a bright contrast to the darkly bundled figures huddling past."
-Sarah Valeri, visual artist, sarahvaleri.wordpress.com
"Longtime collaborators and improvisers extraordinaire, Burkholder and Mansur are silky dancers who fill a space with movement that’s alternately athletic and subtle—but always contains an element of watchfulness.”
-Amanda Abrams, Washington CityPaper, Spring Arts Guide
"Seeing them together, they make a curious couple, he [Daniel Burkholder] is tall and broad but light on his feet and moves with wide swaths of energy while she [Mansur] is small, quick and full of mischief....they strike a balance that is both delightful and mesmerizing."
-Boris Willis, Pink Line Project/Pink Noise
“…both Burkholder and Mansur are such smooth, watchful movers that the show’s on-the-spot creation might not be immediately obvious.”
-Amanda Abrams, Washington CityPaper
“….visually creative...an evening of visual surprises and startling images...an exciting evening and a feather in the cap for this enduring duo…”
-Pamela Squires, The Washington Post
“They [Daniel Burkholder & Sharon Mansur] are listening: to each other, to the space, to the dance that unfolds beautifully, carefully, exuberantly before us.”
–Megan Bridge, Thinkingdance.net, Falls Bridge Festival of New Movement, Improvisation & Performance, Philadelphia
“It was Mansur & Eisenbach’s Underneath that accomplished what site-specific work should: alter a space or one’s experience of that space.”
–Lisa Traiger, DanceViewTimes
“…. these choreographers [Mansur, Sara Pearson, Patrik Widrig] burble with ideas and warmly embrace the notion of collaborating with their dancers. There is a lot of intellectual meat on the bones of all three.”
-Pamela Squires, The Washington Post
