Kettly Noël (born 1966 in Port-au-Prince) is a Haitian dancer, choreographer and actress. Her first choreographed piece, Nanlakou, premiered in 1995. Tichèlbe (2002) won both the Rencontres chorégraphiques d’Afrique et d’océan Indien and RFI Danse prizes. She's the founder and artistic director of the Donko Senko dance studio, Dense Bamako Danse festival, both in Mali, and the Port-au-Prince Art Performance (PAPAP) festival in Haiti. Noël was also noted for her performance in the role of Zabou in Abderrahmane Sissako's 2014 film Timbuktu.
Works 1995: Nanlakou 2002: Tichèlbè 2017: Panser la planète 2017: Zombification and Errance, documenta 14 in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany
Prizes Rencontres chorégraphiques d’Afrique et d’océan Indien, 2003 RFI Danse, 2003 Hiroshima Prize, 2014
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