Johanna Ackva

revolves in her artistic practice around the interactions between physical and metaphysical movements. Her works on paper and in performative spaces address the relationships between body and thought, the living and the dead, the world and perception. As a choreographer, dancer, lecturer, author and curator, she is mainly active in Berlin. In the Uckermark (Brandenburg), she runs the Libken thinking and production space as part of a team of four.

Rise of the Spoons Against the System. OR: Kudos! Here’s How Intersectional Inclusion Can Work in Theater

29. April 2024, Johanna Ackva
  • Languages:
  • DE
  • and
  • EN

The stand-up comedy Baby I’m Sick Tonight will make you laugh and cry. Ahead of the premiere (April 25, 2024, Sophiensaele), I spoke with the choreographer Olivia Hyunsin Kim about chronic illness and the shortcomings when it comes to dealing with it.
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Only Guests on Earth

4. December 2023, Johanna Ackva
  • Languages:
  • DE
  • and
  • EN

The interdisciplinary evening Terrestrial Transit asks how we can embrace the earthly and finite transition of being as a way of life. With five performances at DOCK11 until December 9, 2023, the company Cranky Bodies concludes a nomadic project that began in Berlin and led via Brandenburg and the border town of Szczecin to the Baltic Sea.

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