Juanita Santafe Sabogal
actor | movement artist | fight choreographer
nyc + bogotá
About Me.
Juanita Santafé Sabogal is a Colombian actor and interdisciplinary physical theatre artist based in New York City. Her practice integrates acting, movement direction, fight direction, choreography, and directing in the service of embodied storytelling — creating movement language that makes narrative visible in the body, and building character-driven stage combat that carries dramatic intention rather than spectacle alone.
She is part of the team at Sordelet Inc., one of the foremost theatrical fight-direction companies in the United States, led by Rick Sordelet and Christian Kelly-Sordelet, where she supports character-driven stage combat for professional productions and trains actors in combat technique and safety. She is also a company member and choreographer with Virago Physical Theatre, and directed It's Not the End of the World for the Dream Up Festival at Theater for the New City. On screen, she was lead performer and acting coach on J Balvin and Jay Wheeler's music video "Si Te Vas" (Universal Music).
Juanita trained in acting and dance at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, and continued at HB Studio in New York, with further training in stage combat and fight direction through Sordelet Inc. Her work draws on Laban, Lucid Body, and Body Intelligence.
She believes the trained body is an actor's first instrument — the place where truth, character, and story begin.
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