Noelle Awadallah نوال (she/her) is a Palestinian-American choreographer, dancer, improviser, and farmer residing in Mni Sota Makoce (Minneapolis). She is the Co-Artistic Director of Body Watani Dance alongside her sister, Leila Awadallah. She has been dancing with Ananya Dance Theatre for 6 years and holds a BFA from Columbia College Chicago (2018).  Awadallah’s daily pursuit of a “land-based life” emerges from sumud—a Palestinian ideology guiding steadfast perseverance and rooted relationality to homeland. Her artistic approach in upholding these ideologies extend from her commitment and rigor to multi-directional attention, embodied storytelling, resistance and liberation practices, grief and rage, futuristic imagination as strategy, and tending to her reciprocal relationships with land and non-human beings. She has presented work at multiple venues such as Red Eye Theater, MOVO, Mixed Blood Theatre, Pancake House Gallery and The Southern Theater. She is the recipient of the Hinge Arts Residency (2020), Solo Perspectives Residency at MOVO (2023), New Works Isolated Acts through Red Eye Theater (2024), Creative Individuals Grant (2024), Next Step Fund (2025), and is currently a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow (2025-2028). She is currently farming at Cimarron Community Farm and lovingly holds the Grief and Rage Circle for Palestine alongside Aziz Bisanz.