Joti Singh is a Punjabi-American choreographer, cultural organizer, and educator whose work lives at the intersections of tradition, resistance, and community. She is the Co-Artistic Director of Duniya Dance and Drum Company, which she co-leads with her partner, Guinean musician Bongo Sidibe.

Joti’s choreography draws from Bhangra, Punjabi folk traditions and West African dance from Guinea, using these forms as vessels of memory, protest, and belonging. Her work uplifts South Asian radical histories and builds solidarity across diasporas, particularly between South Asian and Black communities. Joti’s choreography includes “Half and Halves,” about Punjabi-Mexican farmworker histories in California, and “Ghadar Geet: Blood and Ink,” inspired by her great-grandfather Bhagwan Singh Gyanee’s leadership in the Bay Area-based Ghadar Party, an anti-colonial movement that fought for India’s independence.

Joti’s work has been supported by the Creative Work Fund, California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, and the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, and she is the 2024 recipient of the Gerbode Special Award in Dance and the 2025 New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) National Dance Project grant. She founded the World Dance Program at Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts and continues to teach widely. A mother of two, Joti’s practice is rooted in cultural advocacy, storytelling, and creating spaces of joy, resistance, and liberation.