Johanna Ackva works as an artist in the fields of dance and performance. Collaborations and collective processes are central to her approach, in which she sees the body as a site of various movements and agencies, creating physical and meta-physical textures and landscapes. Together with Carrie McILwain, Magdalena Meindl, or Philipp Enders, Johanna conceived and realised several performances. In 2019, Johanna's works *Out of Our Hands *(Open Spaces / Tanzfabrik) and *thank you for all the food that I have received in my life *(VERY / Project Space Festival) were both presented in Berlin. Together with *Suddenly *collective, she premiered the piece *ESPRIT *(Open Spaces / Tanzfabrik). In 2020, Johanna receives the Elsa-Neumann-Scholarship which supports her current research on perceptions and practices around death and dying. As a dancer / performer and dramaturge, Johanna collaborates with various dance-, film-, and visual artists. In 2019/20, she assumed the role of ada Studios in-house-critic and taught as a guest teacher at Berlin's University of the Arts. www.johannaackva.com