Performances and choreographic work

A selection of performance experiences own choreographic work

dancer and co-choreographer

GRASP

GRASP is a multidisciplinary performance research project exploring the perception of time through movement, sound, and projection. Developed collaboratively by Ada Freund (concept & producer), Menni Renvall (scenography & film/projections), and performers Ada Freund, Lisa Nicatore, Johanna Spies, and Julie Pollet, the piece investigates how we experience and grasp time in its fluid, intangible form.

During a residency at rezi.dance in the Czech Republic (Sep–Oct 2025), the artists will deepen this dialogue across disciplines to create an immersive, sensory performance. GRASP invites audiences to question what captures their attention in time’s passing and how perception shapes lived experience.

dancer and co-choreographer

New commisioned work for ELAN - Exit Like an Animal with the premier at the Hamburger Sprechwerk in October 2025

Responsible for concept, direction, costume design and sound design

was wir sagen, was wir meinen und was bleibt

exit_animals

Don’t you often find yourself thinking: Things used to be better, simpler, clearer? Welcome to this heteronormative nostalgia—your very own trad-wife fever dream—where men are men again and women are women again.

"was wir sagen, was wir meinen und was bleibt" choreographed and performed by Johanna Spies and Yamuna Henriques, dissects classic gender roles with AI projections, blending earnestness and a healthy dose of irony.

dancer and co-choreographer

HAMPAMPAM

Dancer and co-choreographer of the new production HAMPAMPAM of the finnish festival Dialogia! based on the book by Ville Hytönen

Confirmed tour in Lapland and South-Finland in Autumn 2025

dancer

Secrets of the Attic

Since 2025 dancer in the childrens dancetheatre piece "Secrets of the Attic" from the finnish choreographer Ada Freund.

Toured in South-Finland in Spring 2025 with confirmed performances for the upcoming winter season

dancer and co-choreographer

Edith

Since 2023 dancer and co-choreographer for the new production of EDITH! in cooperation with the Dialogia!Festivaali in Hämeenlinna, Finland.

Confirmed tour through Scandinavia and Iceland starting in spring 2024

dancer and co-choreographer

Ciclo I

Co-choreographed duo in collaboration with Flamenco dancer Malin Wiebe

Festivals and Performances:

ONE MORE NIGHT TO SHOW (Madrid '23)

SHD (Hamburg '24)

duo.malin.johanna

solo project since 2021

CROW

Festival selection:

Dance.Impro.Space (Madrid '23)

Hop's and Bop's (Leeds, UK '22)

FlockFest (Leeds, UK '22)

dancer and performer

En relación con el otro

Since 2023 company dancer of Cia Monica Arroyo

cia.monica.arroyo

dancer and performer

Las descalzas

Choreographed by: Alejandro Moya

Working period: September-December 2023

performer

Back to the Fuchsia II

Artistic Directors: Dr. Joseph Mercier and Imogen Reeve (2022)

performer and choreographer

Are you tired?

Third Year immersive and participatory performance experiment which took place at the backstage area of the Riley Theater at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance (2022)

choreographer

The Lobster

Second Year choreography at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance (2021)

co-director

The Lunch Break Experience

An interactive online experience developed with a group of fellow students in the first year at Northern School of Contemporary Dance during the Covid pandemic