2025
2024
Embodying Multiplicity: Group Exhibition from Lanesboro BIPOC Artists-in-Residence
Lanesboro Arts Exhibition Gallery
October 26-December 21, 2024
Opening reception October 26 6-8pm
Embodied Multiplicity will celebrate the diversity of mediums and creativity of the artists who participated in the first two rounds of the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Persons of Color) Artist Residency at Lanesboro Arts. Artists featured: Akiko Ostlund, Geno Okok, Juan Diego Perez la Cruz, Mary Prescott, Mike Hoyt, Sharon Mansur, and Tiphanie “PH” Copeland.
lanesboroarts.org/calendar/embodied-multiplicity/
Driftless Dance Film Tour: Fall 2024/Winter 2025
1001 Arab Futures is being screened at InSite Arts & Healing's Driftless Dance Film Tour, curated by Sydney Swanson/InSite Arts and healing. DDFT features a range of evocative short films by: Sarah Abdel-Jelil, Leila Awadallah, Erin Drummond, Brianna Rae Johnson, Erinn Leibhard, Sharon Mansur and Sydney Swanson.
Join Sharon in person for post-screening Q&A sessions Sept 14th, Dec 7th and Jan 11th!
www.insiteartsandhealing.com/driftlessdancefilmtour
Blurring Borders: Cinema & Home
Co-curated by Sharon Mansur & Michelle Baroody
Frozen River Film Festival
Presented in partnership with The Cedar Tree Project & Mizna
February 10, 2024 at the Winona Arts Center and online
Showcasing Arab and SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) artists and filmmakers,
this set of short films challenges documentary form as well as common narratives/images
of immigration and displacement.
Sharon Mansur is a fiscal year 2023 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board.
Image: video still, Sharon Mansur (2023)
Motion State: community engaged workshops
with Frozen River Film Festival, Community Not Cages, Project FINE, Our Voices and the Winona Afghan Support Network
Spring 2024
Sharon Mansur is a fiscal year 2023 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board.
Image: video still, Sharon Mansur (2023)
Nori Screendance Festival, Utah
April 6, 2024
1001 Arab Futures
Moonplay Cinema, Minneapolis
Cinecriture, at Open Book
April 10, 2024
1001 Arab Futures
Weather-ing: the secret sound of f
McKnight International Choreographer Residency
with Meryl Zaytoun Murman, Thessaloniki, Greece
Residency partner: Sharon Mansur and The Cedar Tree Project
June 2024
2023
...in the space between: film screenings
McKnight International Choreographer Residency: Sandy Silva
Migration & Transition Dance Film Showing
Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, MN
Franconia Five Minute Film Fest, September 2023
Franconia Sculpture Park, MN
www.franconia.org/events-programs/film-at-franconia/
tracings: a creative walking project
directed by Sharon Mansur
solo walks, Winter/Spring 2023
1:1 walks and conversations: Spring-Fall 2023:
Gloria Alatorre, Zoe Cinel, Erin Mae Clark, Sarah Johnson, Sadie Neuman, Tia Rai, mw/woolen lover, Melissa Wray
group art walks, September 2023
in partnership with the Winona Outdoor Collaborative
film screening + community sharing: October 2023
in partnership with the Frozen River Film Festival
art zine: coming Fall 2023
2022
SHIFT~ performance salons 2022
curated by Sharon Mansur
Winona, MN
August: LAND/ings
Guest Artist: Katwa Ngoma
East End Recreation Center
September: BLUE AWAKEN/ings
Guest Artist: Mary Jo Klinker
Levee Park
October: RETURN/ings
Guest Artist: Gloria Alatorre
McNally Landing
Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge
SHIFT~ imagination...
SHIFT~ happens...
Sharon Mansur is a fiscal year 2022 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature; and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
1001 Arab Futures
The Cowles Center & McKnight Fellowship for Dancers presents SOLO:
Six Dance Films - An Encore Showing
Renée Copeland, Yeniel “Chini” Perez Domenech, Sharon Mansur, Erin Thompson, Joseph “MN Joe” Tran, Elayna Waxse
May 2022
Silverwood Park, St. Anthony, MN
FREE admission, bring a chair or blanket.
www.silverwoodonstage.org
http://www.mcknightdancechoreo.org/solo/
https://fb.me/e/3HE7WaH7h
Midwest RADFest Regional Alternative Dance Festival
In person and online screening of 1001 Arab Futures dance film
March 2022
Frozen River Film Festival
In person and online screening of 1001 Arab Futures dance film
February 2022
2021
1001 Arab Futures
concept, creative contributions and performance by Sharon Mansur
co-directed by Yara Boustany (Lebanon), Andrea Shaker (Minneapolis), and Mette Loulou von Kohl (New York City), sound by woolen lover, costume by Angie Vo
Live outdoor site-specific dance performance and visual installation
Online Viewing and Watch Party with Artist Discussion, facilitated by Leyya Mona Tawil
Indoor visual installation at the Valencia Arts Center by Andrea Shaker
Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts
Keoxa/Winona, Mni Sota Makoce/MN
June 2021
Lebanon International Dance Festival
Online screening of 1001 Arab Futures live performance video
Tiro Arts Association, Lebanon
August 2021
The McKnight Foundation's Dancer Fellows SOLO Commission evening
In person and online screening of 1001 Arab Futures dance film
The Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts
Minneapolis, Mni Sota Makoce/MN
September 2021
Arab Film Festival
Arab American National Museum
Virtual viewing of 1001 Arab Futures dance film
November 1-7, 2021
Sharon Mansur, in partnership with the Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts is a fiscal year 2020 recipient of a Cultural Community Partnership grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature, and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Sharon Mansur was also a 2018-2019 McKnight Foundation Dance Fellow and received support from the McKnight SOLO commission program.
SHIFT~ performance salons
curated by Sharon Mansur
featuring: Erin Drummond, Sarah Johnson, Marcia Ratliff, StuffStudio, Sydney Swanson, Mai'a Williams
Keoxa/Winona, MN
Summer/Fall 2021
Sharon Mansur is a fiscal year 2021 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature, and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
2020
...in the space between
site-specific dance film screening at Winona Main Street Program's Dine Out Downtown
Fall 2020
Supported by a 2020 individual artist grant from the Winona Fine Arts Commission
homesick
Ten Tiny Virtual Dances
curated by Sarah Carlson/DanceLink
May 2020
small distances
Mid West Music Fest at HOME
May 2020
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C3HtS1b5rM&t=1832s
view minutes 30-60:
The Cedar Tree Project presents:
Western Sahara & Palestine: an evening of creative resistance
with Leila Awadallah, Fatimatu Bachiri, Alexis Salem and Mai'a Williams
March 2020
Art of the Rural's Public Launch, Keoxa/Winona, MN
Video still from small distances, Mid West Music Fest at Home, 2020
Image description: A very close up view of a bright red Viewmaster.
2024
Embodying Multiplicity: Group Exhibition from Lanesboro BIPOC Artists-in-Residence
Lanesboro Arts Exhibition Gallery
October 26-December 21, 2024
Opening reception October 26 6-8pm
Embodied Multiplicity will celebrate the diversity of mediums and creativity of the artists who participated in the first two rounds of the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Persons of Color) Artist Residency at Lanesboro Arts. Artists featured: Akiko Ostlund, Geno Okok, Juan Diego Perez la Cruz, Mary Prescott, Mike Hoyt, Sharon Mansur, and Tiphanie “PH” Copeland.
lanesboroarts.org/calendar/embodied-multiplicity/
Driftless Dance Film Tour: Fall 2024/Winter 2025
1001 Arab Futures is being screened at InSite Arts & Healing's Driftless Dance Film Tour, curated by Sydney Swanson/InSite Arts and healing. DDFT features a range of evocative short films by: Sarah Abdel-Jelil, Leila Awadallah, Erin Drummond, Brianna Rae Johnson, Erinn Leibhard, Sharon Mansur and Sydney Swanson.
Join Sharon in person for post-screening Q&A sessions Sept 14th, Dec 7th and Jan 11th!
www.insiteartsandhealing.com/driftlessdancefilmtour
Blurring Borders: Cinema & Home
Co-curated by Sharon Mansur & Michelle Baroody
Frozen River Film Festival
Presented in partnership with The Cedar Tree Project & Mizna
February 10, 2024 at the Winona Arts Center and online
Showcasing Arab and SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) artists and filmmakers,
this set of short films challenges documentary form as well as common narratives/images
of immigration and displacement.
Sharon Mansur is a fiscal year 2023 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board.
Image: video still, Sharon Mansur (2023)
Motion State: community engaged workshops
with Frozen River Film Festival, Community Not Cages, Project FINE, Our Voices and the Winona Afghan Support Network
Spring 2024
Sharon Mansur is a fiscal year 2023 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board.
Image: video still, Sharon Mansur (2023)
Nori Screendance Festival, Utah
April 6, 2024
1001 Arab Futures
Moonplay Cinema, Minneapolis
Cinecriture, at Open Book
April 10, 2024
1001 Arab Futures
Weather-ing: the secret sound of f
McKnight International Choreographer Residency
with Meryl Zaytoun Murman, Thessaloniki, Greece
Residency partner: Sharon Mansur and The Cedar Tree Project
June 2024
2023
...in the space between: film screenings
McKnight International Choreographer Residency: Sandy Silva
Migration & Transition Dance Film Showing
Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, MN
Franconia Five Minute Film Fest, September 2023
Franconia Sculpture Park, MN
www.franconia.org/events-programs/film-at-franconia/
tracings: a creative walking project
directed by Sharon Mansur
solo walks, Winter/Spring 2023
1:1 walks and conversations: Spring-Fall 2023:
Gloria Alatorre, Zoe Cinel, Erin Mae Clark, Sarah Johnson, Sadie Neuman, Tia Rai, mw/woolen lover, Melissa Wray
group art walks, September 2023
in partnership with the Winona Outdoor Collaborative
film screening + community sharing: October 2023
in partnership with the Frozen River Film Festival
art zine: coming Fall 2023
2022
SHIFT~ performance salons 2022
curated by Sharon Mansur
Winona, MN
August: LAND/ings
Guest Artist: Katwa Ngoma
East End Recreation Center
September: BLUE AWAKEN/ings
Guest Artist: Mary Jo Klinker
Levee Park
October: RETURN/ings
Guest Artist: Gloria Alatorre
McNally Landing
Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge
SHIFT~ imagination...
SHIFT~ happens...
Sharon Mansur is a fiscal year 2022 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature; and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
1001 Arab Futures
The Cowles Center & McKnight Fellowship for Dancers presents SOLO:
Six Dance Films - An Encore Showing
Renée Copeland, Yeniel “Chini” Perez Domenech, Sharon Mansur, Erin Thompson, Joseph “MN Joe” Tran, Elayna Waxse
May 2022
Silverwood Park, St. Anthony, MN
FREE admission, bring a chair or blanket.
www.silverwoodonstage.org
http://www.mcknightdancechoreo.org/solo/
https://fb.me/e/3HE7WaH7h
Midwest RADFest Regional Alternative Dance Festival
In person and online screening of 1001 Arab Futures dance film
March 2022
Frozen River Film Festival
In person and online screening of 1001 Arab Futures dance film
February 2022
2021
1001 Arab Futures
concept, creative contributions and performance by Sharon Mansur
co-directed by Yara Boustany (Lebanon), Andrea Shaker (Minneapolis), and Mette Loulou von Kohl (New York City), sound by woolen lover, costume by Angie Vo
Live outdoor site-specific dance performance and visual installation
Online Viewing and Watch Party with Artist Discussion, facilitated by Leyya Mona Tawil
Indoor visual installation at the Valencia Arts Center by Andrea Shaker
Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts
Keoxa/Winona, Mni Sota Makoce/MN
June 2021
Lebanon International Dance Festival
Online screening of 1001 Arab Futures live performance video
Tiro Arts Association, Lebanon
August 2021
The McKnight Foundation's Dancer Fellows SOLO Commission evening
In person and online screening of 1001 Arab Futures dance film
The Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts
Minneapolis, Mni Sota Makoce/MN
September 2021
Arab Film Festival
Arab American National Museum
Virtual viewing of 1001 Arab Futures dance film
November 1-7, 2021
Sharon Mansur, in partnership with the Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts is a fiscal year 2020 recipient of a Cultural Community Partnership grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature, and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Sharon Mansur was also a 2018-2019 McKnight Foundation Dance Fellow and received support from the McKnight SOLO commission program.
SHIFT~ performance salons
curated by Sharon Mansur
featuring: Erin Drummond, Sarah Johnson, Marcia Ratliff, StuffStudio, Sydney Swanson, Mai'a Williams
Keoxa/Winona, MN
Summer/Fall 2021
Sharon Mansur is a fiscal year 2021 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature, and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
2020
...in the space between
site-specific dance film screening at Winona Main Street Program's Dine Out Downtown
Fall 2020
Supported by a 2020 individual artist grant from the Winona Fine Arts Commission
homesick
Ten Tiny Virtual Dances
curated by Sarah Carlson/DanceLink
May 2020
small distances
Mid West Music Fest at HOME
May 2020
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C3HtS1b5rM&t=1832s
view minutes 30-60:
The Cedar Tree Project presents:
Western Sahara & Palestine: an evening of creative resistance
with Leila Awadallah, Fatimatu Bachiri, Alexis Salem and Mai'a Williams
March 2020
Art of the Rural's Public Launch, Keoxa/Winona, MN
Video still from small distances, Mid West Music Fest at Home, 2020
Image description: A very close up view of a bright red Viewmaster.