Johanna Kepler    
Faculty: Level 2 Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Musical Theatre, Petite & Jr Ballet & Foundations

Johanna is a Guatemalan American creative director, choreographer, educator, and interdisciplinary artist from Brookline, Massachusetts. As a Maya descendant, her work explores identity, culture, and belonging through dance, storytelling, and visual art. She holds a BFA in Dance and a Minor in Latino/a Studies from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis from Duke University, where she also earned a Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Her work is informed by ethnographic research in Guatemala exploring Maya textile traditions and oral histories, and has been presented through the American Dance Festival, the American College Dance Association, Duke University, and the University of Michigan. Through interdisciplinary performance and community storytelling, Kepler creates spaces that reconnect people to memory, culture, and one another.