Laëtitia Daché is a dancer and choreographer. She completed her professional training in Paris in classical, contemporary, and jazz dance, and holds the French State Diploma as a dance teacher. She furthered her training through regular workshops at Nederlands Dans Theater in The Hague and at Budapest Dance Theatre, attended over several consecutive years, where she worked on the repertoire of major international companies.
As a performer for several companies, she has also worked as assistant choreographer and rehearsal director with Ballet Jazz Art, and has collaborated with choreographers including Raza Hammadi, Lorand Zachar, and Dimitri Chamblas.
Through these experiences, she has engaged with a wide range of repertoires, including works by Sol León and Paul Lightfoot, Jiří Kylián, Kidd Pivot - Crystal Pite, S -E-D - Sharon Eyal, Johan Inger, Batsheva Dance Company - Ohad Naharin, Alexander Ekman, Hofesh Shechter, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Marco Goecke, and Akram Khan.
Now freelance and based in Paris, she works in different universes as a dancer, choreographer and movement director, for artists, institutions, museums and fashion brands such as Chanel, Dior, Benefit Cosmetics, Alexandre de Paris, Fursac…
In 2024, she created the duo In the Distance with her company CONTRA, a choreographic triptych that delves into the concepts of duality and complementarity, expressions of resilience in the face of challenges, in the form of a short dance film. The piece has received over twenty awards and official selections, including at prestigious festivals such as the Dance on Camera Festival, Inspired Dance Film Festival, Berlin Fashion Film Festival, Berlin Commercial, and the Video Art and Experimental Film Festival. It has been screened exclusively as part of these festivals in New York, Paris, Berlin, Milan, and Surry Hills.
She created Moving forward, an event dedicated to contemporary choreographic creation and women choreographers, supported by the French Ministry of Culture, the City of Paris, and the Association of National Choreographic Centers (ACCN), alongside additional cultural partners, and the kind support of Marie and Yoann Bourgeois, honorary patrons of the event. The first edition took place from March 25 to April 1, 2025 in Paris, with a performance evening at the Théâtre du Châtelet on March 27, 2025.
Laëtitia holds a Specialized Master’s degree in Geopolitics and International Relations (Sciences Po) and a Dual Master’s degree in Development Economics and Development Project Analysis (CERDI).
“(…) Is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid?
(…) The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?”
“(…) Beethoven apparently viewed weight as something positive. Since the German word schwer means both difficult and heavy, Beethoven's difficult resolution may also be construed as a heavy or weighty resolution. The weighty resolution is at one with the voice of Fate ( Es muss sein! ); necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.”
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Milan Kundera.
