Veronica Santiago Moniello

Artist-In-Residence 2025-2026

Veronica Santiago Moniello is a dance maker. Dances, for her, are emanations from a body in flux and its transformative farewells—in correspondence with natural elements and poetry. Her practice is rooted in dance, research, process-oriented performances, curation, and teaching.

Nomadic by instinct, home is the electric pulse of New York City, the stone-Caribbean memories of the Yucatán Peninsula, and Venezuela—her place of birth, a breath-like source of cadence that moves her to reflect on notions such as trap, dreams, dispossession, offerings, naturaleza. Exploring the body’s emergence—hacer nacer (‘to drop into being’).

She holds an MFA in Fine Arts from UC San Diego and a BA in Dance from Folkwang Universität der Künste in Germany, where she engaged with Pina Bausch’s Le Sacre du Printemps repertoire. Verónica is currently a 2025–2026 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, as well as collaborating with Christopher Unpezverde Núñez on the Vortex methodology. In 2025, she was commissioned to choreograph for Limón Launch (Limón Foundation, NY).

Her recent collaborations include work with Luciana Achugar and Richard Mosse. She has taught and performed across South, Central, and North America, Europe, and Korea, at venues such as Jacob’s Pillow, the Bauhaus School, PACT Zollverein, Festival Cervantino, the Seoul Museum, Judson Memorial Church, Performance Space New York (Open Movement), and Roulette.

She has collaborated with artists like Eric Geiger, Yolande Snaith, Johannes Regnier, Michael Amacio, Andrea Canepa, Orlando Rodriguez, Malou Airaudo, Samir Akika (Unusual Symptoms), Alex Carrillo, Melissa Cisneros, Fernando Melo, Mariangela Lopez, Tania Solomonoff, Jaekyung Jung, and Diana Bayardo, among others. In 2017, Verónica created Habitual, nomadic, sensitive space, studio project. She is also a member of Red Alterna in Yucatán, Mexico.

Her ongoing research, The Body that Has Been Possessed, has received support from FONCA, Iberescena, the Tinker Fellowship, CILAS, the Toymako Foundation, and The Momentary (Artist-in-Residence, February 2024).

  • 2025 Artist in Residence
A black-and-white photo of Verónica. A woman standing with her arms open, fingertips touching the walls on either side. Her legs are spread wider than shoulder-width apart, in front of a closed door covered in graffiti. She faces forward, creating a sense of expansion and presence. She wears denim overalls and a winter jacket with a hood that covers her head, though her hair remains visible, in contact with her heart. Photo by Alexander Carrillo.
ID: A black-and-white photo of Verónica. A woman standing with her arms open, fingertips touching the walls on either side. Her legs are spread wider than shoulder-width apart, in front of a closed door covered in graffiti. She faces forward, creating a sense of expansion and presence. She wears denim overalls and a winter jacket with a hood that covers her head, though her hair remains visible, in contact with her heart. Photo by Alexander Carrillo.