Johanna Gorzellik is a German circus artist specialized in handstand and aerial straps. She started doing circus in her childhood in a youth circus in Germany. In 2018 she spend eight month training, teaching and performing at ZipZap Circus School in Cape Town, South Africa. After finishing her Bachelor in Psychology at the University of Heidelberg, she studied circus at the Stockholm university of the arts (SKH), from which she will graduate in 2024.
Johanna has performed with Cirkus Cirkör in Stockhom and ZipZap Circus School in Cape Town. Her artistic language is based on suspension, stillness and slowness, the decomposition of body parts and the connection between her body and the apparatus she’s working with.