LAURA GARY & JOHANNA ACKVA
Laura Gary is a French dancer, choreographer and Somatic Movement Educator of Body Mind Centering® who is living in Brandenburg and working between Potsdam and Stralsund. Alongside her artistic and teaching practice, she engages also for other projects relatet to dance and dance education. She has built her own artistic universe and teaches children, teenagers, adults and families to express themselves through movement and to let poetry grow from within.
Johanna Ackva lives and works between Berlin and the Uckermark region. For her work, she draws on dance, movement, choreography, anthropological field research methods, artistic research, and theatrical and musical techniques. She often collaborates with artists from other disciplines, particularly in site-specific projects and in exchange with locals or experts. Next to her artistic work, Johanna is part of the curatorical team of Denk- und Produktionsort Libken (Uckermark) and regularly teaches as a guest lecturer in the Studium Generale program at the Berlin University of the Arts.
For Ritournelles, both choreographers and dancers Johanna Ackva and Laura Gary are collaborating for the first time on an artistic project and have invited three other artists to join the team: Yuko Matsuyama moves between dance and music and is the third performer in Ritournelles, Martin Sieweke creates costumes and stage design, and Odile Seitz-Walser brings her diverse experience as a dancer and dance educator for young children to the process.
