Emilie Leriche

Emilie Leriche is a freelance performer and creator based in Göteborg, Sweden. From 2017-2021, she danced with GöteborgsOperans Danskompani under the artistic direction of Katrín Hall. Prior to locating to Sweden, she danced with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago for four seasons, where in 2015 she was awarded a Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship in Dance.

As an independent choreographer, Leriche 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. As an independent performer since 2021, she has been a part of several creative and performance teams, including Ella Rothschild’s Milk Teeth, 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 work for Ballett Basel, I Will, Love.

In 2021 her project, On Mending, a collaboration with Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern, was selected for Orsolina28’s Call for Creation Fellowship, where the work was originally developed for film. In 2022, with the support of a Work-in-Progress Grant from the Princess Grace Foundation, On Mending was further developed and performed as a live production at Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York City. In 2023, Leriche and Ahern were commissioned by BAC to direct their next film, One & One Other, which premiered on BAC’s digital platform in April of 2023.