Emilie Leriche

Emilie Leriche is a freelance performer and choreographer based in Göteborg, Sweden. She has created work on Nederlands Dans Theater II, Whim W’Him, the tanzensemble of Theater St. Gallen, Ballett Hagen, Gibney Company, and Ballet Edmonton. Her most recent creation Your Ghosts, My Shadows -an evening length work co-directed by Pascal Marty- premiered in Prague in September of 2025. From 2017-2021 she danced with GöteborgsOperans Danskompani under the artistic direction of Katrín Hall. Prior to her move to Sweden, Leriche danced four seasons with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, where in 2015 she was awarded a Princess Grace Foundation (USA) fellowship in dance. Since 2021, she has been a part of several creative and performance teams, including Kor’Sia’s Mont Ventoux, Imre & Marne Van Opstal’s Voodoo Waltz, Antonin Rioche’s we are doing great, and Martin Harriague’s Crocodile. Most recently she was a guest in Jonathan Fredrickson’s new work for Ballett Basel, I Will, Love. With support from a 2022 Princess Grace Foundation Work-in-Progress grant, her work On Mending was developed and performed live at Baryshnikov Arts Center in NYC.

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