Born in Terrassa in 1960, Àngels Margarit has worked in dance, as ballerina, choreographer and teacher, since the 1970s.

Over the course of her career, she has developed a highly personal artistic style that has given her iconic status on the Catalan dance scene. 

In 1985, she founded her own company, Àngels Margarit / Cia. Mudances, creating her own shows in different genres and formats: stage works, improvisation, video dance, installation, research into the new media and so on. Her first creations, Mudances (1985) and Kolbebasar (1988), won international renown, and she has regularly performed worldwide ever since. Her shows have been coproduced and presented at festivals and programmes in Europe, Canada, the United States, South America, Japan and Australia. 

Àngels Margarit’s most recent projects include a retrospective looking back over the twenty-five years of the company, developed over the 2009-2010 period, with revivals of earlier works, educational initiatives and broadcasts, culminating in November 2010 with a presentation at the Mercat de les Flors theatre in Barcelona. In 2011, she premiered Órbitas y derivas, a work for the National Dance Company, whilst at the 2011 Grec Festival, she presented From B to B, created in cooperation with the Swiss dancer and choreographer Thomas Hauert.

The main accolades she has received over the course of her career included the National Dance Prize of Catalonia (Mudances, 1986; Atzavara, 1991; Tèrbola, 1999), the Grand Prix du Concours Chorégraphique in Bagnolet (Kolbebasar, 1988), the City of Barcelona Prize for the Performing Arts (Corol·la, 1993), the 2010 Spanish National Dance Prize, and the 2005 prize awarded by the Association of Dance Professionals in recognition for her work. In her educational work, she has taught courses, workshops and repertory in many countries, including Spain, France, Germany, Finland, Canada, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Denmark and Holland.

Biography written in 2012