A German-born performance and media choreographer who currently resides in Houston (Texas), Nottingham (UK), and Schmelz (Germany) after 15 years of working in theatre, dance, performance art and multimedia collaborations on both sides of the Atlantic.
He began directing in the mid-1980s while finishing his PhD at Yale University, and then moved to Dallas and Houston to work in the independent visual art/performance scenes. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and moving to Chicago in 1990, Johannes developed long-term video and performance projects that involve interactions with other artists and cultural workers in several locations: Havana (Cuba), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Eisenhuettenstadt and Dresden (East Germany), São Paulo (Brazil), while also directing workshops on dance technology both locally and internationally.free and open to the public
