Charly and Eriel Santagado

Mignolo Dance is a contemporary dance company founded by sisters Charly and Eriel Santagado. They have been dancing and creating together for over ten years and utilize this experience to continue collaborating with other dancers and artists throughout the tri-state area. Their work explores elements of various artistic mediums through movement.

Charly Santagado

Co-founder and Artistic Director of Mignolo Dance is a dancer and choreographer originally from Orlando, Florida, currently residing in Metuchen, New Jersey. Her work has been produced at more than twenty venues around the tristate area, including Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, GK Arts Center, City Center Studios, The Secret Theatre, Ailey Citigroup Theater, Peridance, Triskelion Arts, Suzanne Roberts Theater, and Baruch Performing Arts Center. She studied with Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company in Ga’aton, Israel, from 2018-2019, was part of the 2019 Dance Canvas Choreographic Initiative, was selected for coLAB Arts’ 2019 new choreography commission, and was project leader at Earthdance’s 2019 EMERGE Collaborative Residency. She actively collaborates with Arts by the People and was a 2019-2020 Urbanity Next resident choreographer. Find her on Instagram @charlymoves.

Eriel Santagado

Co-founder and Associate Artistic Director of ~mignolo dance~, started dancing at the age of 2 and grew up as a competitive dancer, winning two national titles at American Dance Awards. She recently graduated from the Honors College at Rutgers University with a major in evolutionary anthropology and a minor in dance at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, and was a competitive gymnast on the Division 1 gymnastics team. She choreographs and performs alongside her sister, Charly, in numerous dance festivals and has presented at many venues around the tristate area, including Triskelion Arts, Suzanne Roberts Theater, HERE Arts Center, Dixon Place, Wild Project, Gibney, and Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. Find her on Instagram @erielgs.