about
KoHalition dance is a project-based company founded by Laetitia Kohler & Sarah Hammond as an intimate and creative channel for collaborative artistry. It is a vessel to facilitate collective exploration, transformation and sharing of meaningful moments and ideas through movement and performance.
The company was formed in Spring 2019 when Kohler and Hammond premiered their first work, Now What?. Since 2021, Laetitia Kohler has served as the company’s artistic director.
It is based in Delémont, Switzerland.
Their vision for the company is to create works on a larger scale, with broader accessibility, which continue to offer intellectual and emotional odysseys for both the audience and collaborating artists.
(Ko·Ha)lition
coalition - definition
1a: the act of coalescing : UNION
1b: a body formed by the coalescing of originally distinct elements : COMBINATION
2: a temporary alliance of distinct parties, persons, or states for joint action.
Laetitia (Ko)·hler
Sarah (Ha)·mmond
Laetitia Kohler is a Swiss contemporary dancer and choreographer based in Basel. She obtained a Bachelor's degree in Contemporary Dance from the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in 2017.
Since 2016, she has worked as a freelance dancer and guest performer with independent companies and state theaters, while also choreographing for ensembles and developing her own projects. As a performer, she has worked with the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg with Anna Vita (DE), Alba Castillo & Bryan Arias – Snorkel Rabbit Company, BewegGrund, V-Create, Rebekka Gather Vertical dance hub, and Johanna Heusser, among others. She assisted choreographer Tabea Martin on FOREVER (2019), co-directed Symphonies lunaires for Cirque Starlight in 2020 (tour cancelled), and collaborated with Pendula Ensemble amongst other.
She is currently deepening her interest in dramaturgy and performance through the CAS in Dramaturgy and Text Performance at La Manufacture – Haute école des arts de la scène in Lausanne (2025–2026), while continuing to develop her practice in the field of performance art as dancer and choreographer.
Sarah Hammond is a Swiss/American performer, teacher and creator originally from Denver, Colorado (USA). She studied dance at Denver School of the Arts and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance from Point Park University (Pittsburgh, PA).
Sarah has performed with Apex Dance Company (USA), Hannah Kahn Dance Company (USA), as part of Bruce Nauman's Disappearing Acts exhibition at the Schaulager Foundation (CH), in Alexandra Pirici's Aggregate installation as part of ART Basel 2019, and as part of Lillian Stillwell's SNOW Productions (CH). She has taught dance courses at UniSport Basel, creative dance for children at Globegarden Childcare, and dance-fitness through Inicio Fitness at Roche.
contact
info@kohalitiondance.ch
founders
Sarah Hammond & Laetitia Kohler
artistic director
Laetitia Kohler
association
KoHalition production
CH-2800 Delémont
Switzerland
Banque Raiffeisen Delémont
IBAN: CH89 8080 8009 3362 2056 6