Joana Öhlschläger (she/her)
joana@kommaproductions.dk
www.joanaoehlschlaeger.com
+49 178 1623085
Joana Ellen Öhlschläger 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 ALL GOOD IN (2024), piece off (2023) and ETERNAL SUPPORT ACT (2023).
Joana holds an MfA in Choreography from The Danish National School of Performing Arts.
She is one of the co-founders of KOMMA Performance Productions.
ARTISTIC EDUCATION
2022 - 2024 The Danish National School of Performing Arts (DASPA)
Master Studies in “Choreography“ (120 ECTS)
2017 - 2020 The Danish National School of Performing Arts (DASPA)
Bachelor Studies in “Dance and Choreography” (180 ECTS)
2016 - 2017 Centre of Contemporary Dance Cologne (CCD)
Bachelor Studies in “Dance” (60 ECTS)
2015 - 2016 Tanzfabrik Berlin (TF)
Dance Intensive Program: 25 to 35 hours of varying dance lessons per week
Further education
2023 danceWEB Scholarship Program (VIE), further training program in Contemporary
Dance and Performance at ImPulsTanz - Vienna international Dance Festival
2021 Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH)
Summer Course „Studio Practice and Artistic Process“ (7.5 ECTS)
MOST RECENT AND UPCOMING CHOREOGRAPHIC WORKS
2025 Choreographing 1st year production for the BfA students in Dance & Choreography
at The Danish National School of Performing Arts in Holstebro, premier in April 2025
2025 - 2026 New production for Danish Dance Theatre’s (DDT) talent development program
DRIVHUS under the mentorship of Trevor Davies (Metropolis), creation of a site-specific
work with the dancers of DDT, premier in June 2026
2024 - 2025 ALL GOOD IN, graduation performance on strategies for entering and exiting with 11
performers and an interdisciplinary team (DASPA), re-staging at Inkonst in January 2025
2023 piece off, performance lecture on desires of destruction with Ella Östlund (DASPA)
2023 ETERNAL SUPPORT ACT, dance performance on (in)visible acts of support, with
drummer and performer Ivar Myrset Asheim (DASPA)
2022 cut a slice of life, dance performance on celebrating diverse modes of co-existence,
choreographed for Anita Czakó, Hanna A. Lokøy, Isabel Carvalho, Neža Kokal (DASPA)
2021-2023 The Picnic & The Fountains, performance installation on food and water consumption
in the era of climate collapse, co-creation with Lara Ostan Vejrup and Nadja Bounenni
2021 so_long_ing, solo work on solitude and belonging with site-specific elements, co-
created under artistic direction of Quim Bigas Bassart
2021 BURST, research and performance on impulses-driven dancing and pleasure (SKH)
2020 everything and everything else, solo BA work, research and lecture performance on
high speed artistic production, created in interdisciplinary collaborations (DASPA)
2020 choreographic sonic recursion, collaboration with sound artist Viktor Dahl on layered
resonance of sound and movement (DASPA)
2019 Born This Way, solo creation on transformational myths, with an interdisciplinary team
INITIATIVES AND INVOLVEMENT
since 2021 KOMMA Performance Productions
founder of choreographic production association
since 2021 FUCHSBAU FESTIVAL curator and producer for interdisciplinary festival for contemporary issues, art and music