Based in Dresden, Johanna Roggan works as a freelance dancer and dance maker throughout Germany and internationally. She received her training in Nuremberg, Berlin and Linz. After graduating, she went to Israel, where she was able to study Gaga - the movement language of the Batsheva Company - intensively.

In addition to volunteer work in TanzNetzDresden, the association of Dresden's independent dance scene, Johanna gives dance and GYROKINESIS® training for professional dancers and amateurs as well as workshops for interactive systems in Germany and abroad (sound-specific movement for interactive environments®).

Her own works, workshops and festival invitations as well as her work with various choreographers have taken her to Montréal, Santiago de Chile, Montevideo, Oslo, Sevastopol, Dnipropetrovsk, St. Petersburg, Prague, Amsterdam, Nuremberg, Berlin, Meiningen, Leipzig, Bonn, Görlitz, Chemnitz and Halle/ Saale.

In 2011 Johanna Roggan was a coach for the Unart Performance Festival at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden.
In 2012/13 she worked as a guest dancer at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden in Reckless II - lebendige Schatten (director: Sandra Strunz/ choreography: Ted Stoffer) and choreographed and danced in Fabian. The Story of a Moralist (director: Julia Hölscher). In 2014, together with Julia Hölscher, she staged the opera Eugen Onegin at the Oldenburg State Theater.

Her work wo es eben passt, Kapitel II was invited to the first Tanzplattform Sachsen in May 2013. A jury awarded her work for a co-production of a new work in 2014 with HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts Dresden and the Societaetstheater Dresden.

In 2013, together with Josefine Wosahlo, she founded the dance company the guts company. Together with the Societaetstheater, the guts company is being funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation for the 2015/16 and 2016/17 seasons as part of the Doppelpass fund.

Johanna is on the board of the villa wigman für TANZ e.V. She is intensively involved in the cultural-political field for better working conditions for the independent performing arts, especially in Dresden and Saxony.