weaving Dreams is an interdisciplinary performance that blends dance, spoken word, visual art,
sound, and projection to explore how memory, identity, and ancestral connection surface through
embodied and intuitive practices. The work gathers fragments of director and choreographer
Johanna Kepler’s life, tracing the subtle threads of reconnecting and self-discovery that emerge as
she navigates what it means to be a transnational Guatemalan adoptee living between many
worlds. These overlapping worlds give rise to multiple selves and at times conflicting identities,
each one shaped by belonging, displacement, and cultural memory.
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Weaving Dreams Gallery (January 28-February 27)
Weaving Dreams Gallery is an immersive thesis exhibition by Johanna Kepler that explores memory, identity, and ancestral connection through an embodied weaving methodology. Blending dance, visual art, spoken word, archival photographs, and digital landscapes, the gallery transforms personal and collective histories into a living, sensory environment, featuring interviews with Guatemalan adoptees and first-generation Guatemalans. Rooted in Johanna’s experience as a Guatemalan adoptee and her ethnographic research with Maya weaving communities, the installation positions the body as a living archive, where movement, thread, and story intertwine to reveal how cultural memory travels across generations, borders, and worlds.
About the Artist
Johanna Kepler is a Guatemalan American choreographer, creative director, and entrepreneur whose work explores storytelling through movement and weaving as a methodology for cultural preservation. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis at Duke University (expected 2026), where her research examines how the body functions as a living archive for memory and cultural transmission.