​Johanna Kepler is an MFA candidate in Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis at Duke University and holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Michigan. Her research centers on choreography as a form of embodied knowledge production, investigating how movement practices transmit cultural memory, identity, and lived experience across time and place. Situated within performance studies, dance ethnography, and practice-as-research methodologies, her work positions the body as a living archive that holds, reorganizes, and transmits personal, collective, and ancestral histories through movement, intuition, and creative process. Central to her research is a methodology she has developed called weaving, an interdisciplinary practice that integrates movement, drawing, reflective writing, and ethnographic inquiry to explore how identities and memories are interlaced across geographies and generations. Informed by ethnographic research in Guatemala and partnerships with Maya weaving communities, her work examines how embodied cultural practices function as systems of storytelling, resistance, and knowledge transmission. This research extends into interdisciplinary performance, immersive installations, and public scholarship, including large-scale choreographic works and a living archive of oral histories. Across all platforms, she approaches performance as both an artistic and research-driven practice that invites audiences into embodied explorations of belonging, displacement, resilience, and transformation, while contributing to decolonial and interdisciplinary approaches within contemporary dance and performance studies.