Sarah Lisette Chiesa is an interdisciplinary artist originally from New York, who has lived and worked in the United States, Europe, Mexico, and Venezuela. She graduated from North Carolina School of the Arts in high school with Modern Dance Concentration, received a BFA from SUNY Purchase College in 2004, a Post Graduate Certificate in Choreography from the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in 2014.

Currently, she is a Predoctoral Lecturer at University Washington and will receive an MFA in June of 2020. She has performed works by Kazuko Hirabayashi, Sidra Bell, Noemie LaFrance, Tania Perez-Salas, Sidra Bell, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Stefan Dreher, Hubert Lepka, Yang Jiang, Franca Ferarri, Brian Brooks, Susan Marshall, Mark Morris, and Daniel Charon.  She was a company member of Shen Wei Dance Arts for six years and continues to work as a guest artist. She has collaborated with artists such as John Mattuizzi, Jacopo Foggini, Yuval Avital, Piergiorgio Casotti, Mario Vighi, Luciano Bosi, Fabrizio Orsi, Chanhee Choi, Abbey Blackwell, and Abigail Jara.