Bénédicte Billiet

Bénédicte Billiet was born in Lille, France, in 1954. She studied at the Conservatoire National de Paris before joining the Ballet de Lyon in 1972. In 1975, she returned to Paris, where she worked with Peter Goss, Dominique Bagouet and other choreographers. In 1981 she was engaged by the Tanztheater Wuppertal under Pina Bausch, where she danced until 1989. After a break, she returned there to work for the archive and as an assistant and co-rehearsal director, including on Kontakthof with older people aged 65 and over and young people aged 14 and over. Today she is a freelancer and works primarily with her daughter, Sophia Otto.

(Information as of November 2026)