Joana
Öhlschläger
choreographer &
dancer

Joana Ellen Öhlschläger (she/her) is a German choreographer and dancer based in Copenhagen.
Through transdisciplinary collaborations she constructs sensorial universes that employ humor, surprise and abstracted cliché to invite an audience into places of imaginative recognition and emotional permission. Her most recent works are porch, pool, shoreline (2025), ALL GOOD IN (2024), piece off / a lecture performance (2023) and ETERNAL SUPPORT ACT (2023).

Joana holds an MfA in Choreography from The Danish National School of Performing Arts.
She is co-founder of KOMMA Performance Productions, an association supporting freelance performing artists to realize their work.

Calendar:

26.06.2025, 16:00
guts spilled edges
residency showing @ workspacebrussels, Brussels

02. - 05.04.2025, 20:00
porch, pool, shoreline
1st year production of the BA students in Dance & Choregraphy
@ The Danish National School of Performing Arts, Holstebro
Role: choreographer

31.01. + 01.02.2025, 20:00
ALL GOOD IN
performance @ Inkonst, Malmö

18.01., 14:00
PIECE OFF
public residency showing @ Inkonst, Malmö

PIECE OFF / a lecture performance

rehearsal photos of ALL GOOD IN

ETERNAL SUPPORT ACT

artist portrait by Valeriia Shcherbina
all other photos by Joana Ellen Öhlschläger

contact: joanaellen@posteo.de

***This is a preliminary website that will be updated in fall 2025 and include more detailed descriptions and credits to each work. You are warmly invited to contact me in the meantime for any inquiries***