Before the mind decides to take a step, love has reached the seventh heaven. Wherever the dancer treads with his foot, a spring of life springs up in the dust. (Rumi)

Johanna Richter's full-length, interdisciplinary dance theaters are characterized by a common universal language beyond words. With her company of international actors and dancers, she has been able to generate a very diverse, multigenerational, and multicultural audience, especially during her years in residence at the Schauburg München.
Her choreographic style is influenced by many years of working with actors and actresses. The focus is therefore less on abstract movement material but rather on the search for the translation of human stories into the movement repertoire of the body.
The place, the harmony with other performing arts (acting, dance, music), the dancing and playing personalities with their special characteristics, and the larger narrative arc, which finds its expression in the full-length dance theater, become essential.
Johanna Richter's dance-theaters are explicit invitations to her audience, reflecting the plurality of global society. Through the topicality of their themes, her pieces offer identification surfaces for every audience in the universal experience space of theater.

Parallel to her training as a dancer at the Iwanson International, Johanna Richter studied theater and dance studies at the LMU in Munich, specializing in inner motivation and outer expression aswell as movement psychology. Since then she has been working as a choreographer and dancer for stage, film and television.
She has received several invitations to choreography competitions at home and abroad, to dance and theater festivals, and received several project grants, with which she worked in co-production with the Residenztheater and the Schauburg München. Her productions have been awarded several times at competitions.
From 2004 to 2017 she was choreographer in residence at the Schauburg Munich with her company, which gave her pieces a continuous presence in the city over several seasons.
Since 2017 Johanna Richter has been touring with her company and different productions and co-producing with city theaters. Most recently in 2020, with Freilichtspiele Schwäbisch Hall and Theater Kempten.