Margit Huber

Margit Huber lives and works in Lugano. After training as a dancer, choreographer, and dance educator at the Sigurd Leeder School of Dance in Herisau (1971–74), she began her career in 1977 with the expressive dance group Choreo 77. In 1982, she settled in Ticino and ran the La Capriola school from 1985 to 1995. During this time, she worked as a dancer and choreographer in Claudio Schott’s Compagnie Teatro Danza in Lugano. Huber later decided to focus exclusively on solo work. In 1987, she created Ombre ritrovate, followed by Acqua e Terra in 1988, and from 1989 onwards she choreographed various dance historiographies such as Hommage a Isadora Duncan (1990). In 1988, she participated in the reconstruction of the Festa del sole after Rudolf von Laban on Monte Verità, where she danced and choreographed Die Vermehrung des Lichts. Various works, including a series of monthly performances in Lugano, were inspired by Japanese Butoh, such as Fuoco e aria (1989), Volo dalle tenebre (1991), and Shaman (1989).
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The performance Un pinguino vola verso sud (1999), presented as part of TI-Danza, marked the beginning of a close collaboration for Huber with actors, dancers, and extras. Out of this work, she founded Compagnie Babilonia in the summer of 2000, while continuing to develop her own solo performances in parallel. Huber has been a member of the professional association Associazione Svizzera Danzatori e Coreografi (TASI) since its founding in 1987, and thanks to her language skills and network, she continues to represent the association in German-speaking Switzerland to this day.