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SHIFT~

SHIFT~ performance salons

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What are SHIFT~ performance salons?
SHIFT~ is an informal and intimate interdisciplinary platform, curated by Sharon Mansur.  SHIFT~  encourages Winona area creatives to collaborate, test out new ideas, experiment, improvise, and engage each other and audience members in conversation. The salons also are an initiative to further the development and visibility of contemporary art practices in the Winona community. 

SHIFT~ prioritizes BIPOC, LGBTQIA+,  and/or female identified artists.

SHIFT~  supports creativity, collaboration and innovation, and making those processes visible and accessible through public performance and engagement. Sharon Mansur started SHIFT~ in 2016, initially hosted at Infinity Yoga Studio, and has presented visual, music, spoken word, video and movement artists.

What is a SALON?
A salon is an intimate informal gathering in a private home for creative exchanges of ideas, originally flourishing in 17th & 18th century Europe, particularly in France where women played a vital role.  An original intent was to bring diverse people together for open and equal engagement as a “microcosm of life.”  Guests could share works-in-progress and receive feedback, to “promote a culture of creativity and collaboration.”

​(source: www.publicspheresalons.com/whysalons)

shift~perceptions
shift~ imagination
shift~ possibilities
​shift~ happens!


2022 Season
​SHIFT~ a performance salon
curated by Sharon Mansur
in partnership with the
Winona Outdoor Collaborative


Recent:
RETURN/ings
October 2, 2022 @ 1pm CST
Guest: Gloria Alatorre
Location: McNally Landing 
Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge, Prairie Island Road, Winona, MN, Dakota Land
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Click here for: Indigenous land acknowledgment, plus information and resources
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See below for press release translations into Spanish & Hmong:

2022 Season
LAND/ings
with guest: Katwa Ngoma
August 13, 2022
East End Recreation Center, Winona, MN


BLUE AWAKEN/ings
with guest: Mary Jo Klinker
​September 9, 2022
Levee Park, Winona, MN



2021 Season
During 2021 SHIFT~ presented three outdoor and online events in Winona, MN.
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August 2021

Erin Drummond + Mai'a Williams

September 2021
StuffStudio + Sydney Swanson

​October 2021

Sarah Johnson + Marcia Ratliff

mansurdance is honored to host this archive of SHIFT~ 2021 & 2022 salons, click on each button below to view:
August 2021 archive
September 2021 archive
october 2021 archive
AUGUST 2022 ARCHIVE
SEPTEMBER 2022 ARCHIVE
OCTOBER 2022 ARCHIVE
2021 & 2022 SHIFT~ ARTIST QUOTES

I found SHIFT~ to be a safe space and container for our community. I also found SHIFT~ being a holistic and transformational place where paradigms of creativity are awakened and further explored. SHIFT~ happened to me.  -Gloria A. Alatorre
"Improvisational performance has the capacity for subtle and profound transformation, and Sharon Mansur curates and creates this space in such a tender, wonderful way."  ~Erin Drummond

“The more we play, the better we get at receiving challenging shifts as gifts that can broaden and transform us mere mortals into wholehearted, fully embodied, connected creatures of the universe.” ~Sarah Johnson

SHIFT~ offers an opportunity to bridge mediums and explore our relationship to community and public space through art.  -Mary Jo Klinker

As an artist, the SHIFT~ salon provided a broader platform for my personal development and growth in public performance, and the opportunity to share the gift of percussion instruments with my Winona community. And and provided an opportunity to address community concerns for public spaces like the East End Recreation Center.   -Katwa Ngoma

“To me, SHIFT~ is about moving outside of the worn-out grooves, jumping off the track, and listening to the creative pulse within the ordinary. It's also a space of connection for artists to find each other, for neighbors to notice each other, for community to weave a little tighter through shared art making.”  ~Marcia Ratliff
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“My recipe for life is loaded with and’s. My recipe for life includes wide open spaces, a cacophony of options.” ~StuffStudio 

“SHIFT~ has expanded my ideas around art and art-making since its inception. I'm looking forward to experimenting and engaging while collaborating with StuffStudio.”  ~Sydney Swanson

“SHIFT~ is one of the rare spaces that allows for folks to play and experiment with art and creativity in a low stakes environment...”  ~Mai’a Williams
Sharon Mansur is a fiscal year 2021 and 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. 

​Additional support for SHIFT~ 2021 was provided by the Winona Main Street Program and Art of the Rural.  Additional support for SHIFT~ 2022 includes the Winona Parks & Recreation Department and the Winona Outdoor Collaborative.


shift~perceptions…      shift~imagination…      shift~possibilities…      shift~happens…
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