Performance Artist

Choreographer

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Shar, a first-generation Canadian of Afro-Caribbean descent, encompasses a profound fusion of music, culture and heritage through movement. With over two decades within the performing arts, her expertise spans between jazz, contemporary, commercial jazz and Improvisation.

After pursuing her studies at George Brown College in the Commercial dance program, where she immersed herself in American jazz, contemporary, ballet, and musical theater. She entered into a dynamic career as an international performing artist, choreographer and movement director, working across diverse creative landscapes such as, theater, television, film and the music industry.

Moving to Berlin in 2021, she has worked with Artes Mobiles, Candela Capitain, July Weber, Kiani Del Valle (KDV dance ensemble), King Rose dance collective, Marie Zechiel, Monica Mirabile, Orly Anan, Steph Ilova(Movement seven company), Rimini Protokoll and many others.

Currently, her embodied practice centers around themes of collective healing within the BiPoC community, bringing forward the history and collected stories of her migrant family’s culture and connecting a parallel timeline of colonial syncretism within their belief systems and rituals, medicinal healing practices, and collective gatherings. Transported through her Afro-Caribbean heritage, her choreographic work blends and challenges the dynamics of jazz and contemporary styles, creating expressive, movement-driven pieces that explore the human form’s potential and activation. Her solo works include We Shall (Shift Lab Festival 2025), Where Have All the Orishas Gone? (Nomansland 2024), Soul Symphony (Tanznacht 2023), and the co-produced short film Back to Heart, developed during her scholarship residency at Uncertain Unities and Color Block (2022). In collaboration with spoken word artist Natalie Amoatin and a diverse ensemble of Berlin-based dancers, Shar continues her creative journey by developing a new body of work titled Louder. The piece explores themes of Black liberation and the ongoing labor required to sustain joy within German society. Developed with an ensemble of BiPoC artists, the work draws from the rich diaspora heritage of jazz, gospel, blues, and Caribbean music.