Anna Huber (dancer)

Anna Huber (* 1965 in Zurich ) is a Swiss dancer and choreographer . The internationally successful artist is the recipient of the Hans Reinhart Ring and the Swiss Dance and Choreography Prize .

Life

After graduating from high school and after taking dance lessons with Beatrice Tschumi and Leonie Stein in Bern , she continued her education at the ch-Tanztheater in Zurich from 1985 to 1988 . She then studied with Kazuo Ohno ( Butoh ), Meg Stuart ( performance ), Susanne Linke (solo dance) and Saburo Teshigawara ( contemporary dance ), among others . After various engagements as a dancer, for example at the Cottbus State Theater , she has so far choreographed nine solos, each of which she dances herself.

From 1989 to 2008 Anna Huber lived and worked in Berlin . On the occasion of a Germany tour with Ordo virtutum - Game of Forces over Hildegard von Bingen , she interpreted Hildegard in the choreography by Doris Schaefer-Kölcze. Then she danced in several productions by Jo Fabian in the ensemble of the Cottbus State Theater : 1992 Simple Swan and 1993 Lostills . Lost Still Life , in 1995 Fabian's Die Hawking Variation followed at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin. In 1996 Huber choreographed and danced face ... à directed by Helena Waldmann in Frankfurt a. M. and Berlin.

During her engagement at the Cottbus State Theater, Anna Huber began her own choreographic research in 1993 . 1995 she succeeded with the third solo production in interspaces international breakthrough. Since then she has created other solos, duets and group pieces, which she has performed with international success. Since 2002/2003 she has been developing the architecture- specific performances “detours” with the percussionist Fritz Hauser . In the 2007/2008 winter semester, Anna Huber Valeska Gert was visiting professor at the Institute for Theater Studies at the Free University of Berlin . Since 2007 she has been artist-in-residence at the Dampfzentrale Bern for three years as part of the nationwide support program Projekt Tanz .

Catalog raisonné

Own choreographies:

you alone. (1993)
letter. (1994)
in between rooms. (1995)
letter letters. (1996)
most invisible. (1998/2008)
the other and the same. (First group choreography, 1999)
l'autre et moi. Anna Huber and Lin Yuan Shang (1999)
Piece with wing. Anna Huber with Susanne Huber (piano) (2001).
two, too. Anna Huber with Kristýna Lhotáková (2001)
detours. Anna Huber with Fritz Hauser (percussion) (since 2002)
cloud piece. (Group piece for five dancers) (2004)
hierundoderhierundoderhierundoderdort / two ones. Anna Huber with Kristýna Lhotáková (2004)
trois de pas. (2005)
palmfoot. Anna Huber with Fritz Hauser (percussion) (2006)
A question of time. (2008)
Timetraces. Anna Huber with Martin Schütz (since 2009)
Keys. Anna Huber with Susanne Huber and André Thomet (piano duo) (2010)
Cleaning up the waterfall. Anna Huber with Yves Netzhammer (2011)

Prizes and awards

1998: "Most remarkable young choreographer" according to the magazine Ballett International / Tanz aktuell .
2001: Ellys Gregor Award of the Mary Wigman Society in Cologne.
2002: Hans Reinhart-Ring . (The highest award in Swiss theater.)
2002: Dance of Things Critics' Prize.
2005: Studio grant from the Zug cultural foundation Landis & Gyr . (Six months in London).
2010: Swiss Dance and Choreography Prize.

literature

Agathe Blaser: Anna Huber . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 878 f.

Web links

Web presence by Anna Huber
Anna Huber film portrait on ART-TV on the occasion of invisible (2008)
Interview with Maya Künzler: The emergence of the opposite from the tipping moment in the WOZ , October 14, 2010; accessed on January 9, 2016.
Bend or break. Edith Arnold in Weltwoche , December 3, 2003; accessed on January 9, 2016

Individual evidence

^ Anna Huber - Valeska Gert guest professor in the summer semester 2013. At the Free University of Berlin; accessed on January 9, 2016.
↑ Anne Sophie Scholl: Body and danced spirit . ( Memento from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Berner Zeitung, October 7, 2010.
↑ The prize is endowed with 30,000 Swiss francs and is awarded by the Pro Tanz association to personalities from the Swiss dance scene who have been building up over the years. Media release , accessed on March 13, 2011.

personal data
SURNAME	Huber, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss dancer and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH	1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zurich

[1] Anna Huber - Valeska Gert guest professor in the summer semester 2013. At the Free University of Berlin; accessed on January 9, 2016.

[2] Anne Sophie Scholl: Body and danced spirit . ( Memento from May 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Berner Zeitung, October 7, 2010.

[3] The prize is endowed with 30,000 Swiss francs and is awarded by the Pro Tanz association to personalities from the Swiss dance scene who have been building up over the years. Media release , accessed on March 13, 2011.