Joëlle Antonia Santiago (b. New York, NY) is an Ecuadorian-American choreographer, writer, and performer based in New York and Paris. Joëlle creates immersive and charged site-specific works. She uses movement and a preoccupation with language to invoke the body’s relationship to narrative, ideology, and iconography.

Joëlle is a recipient of the Fulbright Harriet Hale-Woolley Award for the Arts in Paris, France. She is currently an Artist in Residence at the Fondation des États-Unis (Paris) where she will create choreographic projects throughout the 2023-2025 season. She has presented work at the NYU Tisch School for the Arts, Roulette Intermedium, Chelsea Piers, The Clark Art Institute, The International Studio and Curatorial Program, CitéShort Film Festival (Paris), the Fondation des États-Unis (Paris), with the PROMPTUS collective and Blackbox Music Ensemble. Joëlle was selected as a 2024 choreographic fellow for AXIS Dance Company and is involved in an ongoing collaboration with Dance Pour Parkinsons, Paris. She has been an adjunct professor at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where she directed the summer high school intensive and continues to act as a mentor. She has guest lectured at the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University, and the Fulbright Association. She is an ambassador for ITSLIQUID Group, a global communication platform for contemporary art, architecture, design, and fashion.

Joëlle graduated Cum Laude from Barnard College of Columbia University.