Johanna Kepler is a choreographer and creative Director with a passion for storytelling through movement. Kepler graduated from the University of Michigan class of 2020 with a BFA in Dance and Minor in Latino Studies. Kepler is expected to graduate Duke University class of 2026 with a MFA in Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis and Certificate in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Kepler’s work as a choreographer, designer and visual artist is centered around community building and empowering artists in all stages of their career. 

 

During her time at Michigan Kepler founded a student organization called Arts in Color. In 2018 she was awarded an Arts award by the North Campus Deans. She was also the recipient of the UMS 21st Century Artist Internship. In 2019 her work was selected to represent Michigan at the American College Dance festival in Ohio. Kepler was also a student speaker for the SMTD class of 2020. 

 

In March of 2020 Kepler founded an oral history interview project called Power of the Performing Arts. Kepler interviewed over 300 professional performing artists worldwide and across disciplines about the affects of the pandemic on the performing arts. In 2025 Kepler is launching a podcast sequel to this project called Creativity Cost, exploring the cost of being a creative post-pandemic. 

 

As a Dancer and Choreographer Kepler has worked in New York City and Boston. In 2021 Kepler joined American Ballet Theatre as a full time administrative staff member where she worked for three years in Marketing and as the Executive Assistant to the Executive Director. Since 2021 Kepler has taught for the Senior Intensive program at Mass Motion Dance Academy in Boston Massachusetts for the summer intensives, year long programs, master classes, and has set competition choreography. Kepler’s most recent choreography includes a piece for Bosoma Dance Company presented at the Boston Center for the Arts in 2022. Kepler also set a piece on Duke University students for November Dances 2024 presented at the Reynolds Industry Theater in Durham North Carolina. In 2025 Kepler was a part of Maija Garcia’s artist in residence at the Kennedy Center. 

As a designer and creative director Kepler co-founded Digital Drip Fashion House where she saw a unique opportunity with the emergence of Web3 to help empower artists through this new digital landscape. Digital Drip held the first Digital Fashion event during Art Basel Miami in 2022 in partnership with Artisant and Spatial.io that was featured in NasDaq.