Sharon Picasso is a Minneapolis based movement and interdisciplinary artist. Her creative work incorporates her rich background in dance, theater, somatics, music and design. She invests in cultivating an inclusive and sustaining creative environment and above all, values the process. Her collaborative and performance work provides the privilege of working with a wide variety of artists, most recently Deborah Jinza Thayer/Movement Architecture, Pedro Pablo Lander, Jennifer Glaws/Jagged Moves, Jess Forest, Paula Mann/Time Track Productions, and Rosy Simas Danses. She studied Theatre and Psychology at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and earned a degree in Dance Performance and Choreography from The Boston Conservatory.
We sat in my dad’s studio in our Minneapolis home last Christmas, chatting over scones and tea. In this episode we discuss her beginnings in theater and psychology and why she took a break from dance for two years, how becoming a mother positively impacted her career as a choreographer and how she makes life and work sustainable, being a self-proclaimed “slow cooker” in terms of creative process, her thoughtful and special relationship with failure, plus she shares a couple of my favorite answers that I have heard so far in terms of what her daily rituals are for creativity.
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SHOW NOTES
-Sharon’s website & instagram
-A scene from Admittance
-Barry Manilow & Saturday Night Fever
-Walker Choreographers’ Evening roundtable (on her solo performance)
-Jennifer Glaws / Jagged Moves
-Judith Butler
-Yvonne Rainer
-Erin Thompson at Zenon Dance School, Minneapolis
-The inspiration that’s floating around in Sharon’s consciousness these days (mentioned at the end):
“A thing can travel everywhere, just by holding still”
- Richard Powers from his book, ‘The Overstory’
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