Elli Huber  Aerialist - Singer - Costume Designer
 

Born in Australia, Elli Huber is now an internationally acclaimed aerialist and singer specialising in swinging trapeze. Having trained at a world class level under coach Victor Fomine in Montreal, she then went on to tour with companies such as Cirque du Soleil, Roncalli Circus and Big Apple Circus.



Starting out as a child on-screen actor with a background in dance and music, she has over 25 years’ experience working professionally in the entertainment industry, 10 years of which she has spent performing and touring as an aerial acrobat and singer all across Europe, Canada, USA, Asia, South America and Australia.



Mixing her two passions, she is a unique artist - one of the few in the world who specialises in singing aerials; combining live vocals whilst performing aerial acrobatics on either dance trapeze, swinging trapeze or aerial hoop. Whilst she is a versatile artist, her main performance style lends itself to a sultry, powerful and alluring nature, bringing her contagious energy and vibrance to the stage wherever she goes.



Elli has performed with prestigious companies all across the globe as a solo artist, including Cirque du Soleil’s “Crystal”, where she played the main character whilst performing the solo swinging trapeze act. Some of her other accolades include America’s Big Apple Circus at New York’s Lincoln Centre, Australia’s Silver's Circus and Circus Rio, Mexico's Circo Atayde, Carnival Cruises touring the South Pacific, Austria’s Variete am Bodensee, Pacha - Sydney (directed by The Squared Division),  Swiss Dream Circus in both Canada & Malaysia, Zirkus Mond in Berlin, New York’s Hideaway Circus, Italy’s Le Cirque, Zippos Circus Winter Wonderland in London, Cirque Starlight touring Switzerland, Festival Arte Migrante in Italy and Germany’s Dinner For Fun.



Her education expands from attending Aerialize - Sydney Aerial Theatre in Australia, to The Beijing International Arts School in China and Ecole Leotard in Montreal, Canada. She completed a three year Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts at The University of Sydney, majoring in sculpture & performance. She has also gone on to complete a set and costume design course in Sydney at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) and has more recently started her own costume design business called Skinted Costumes. Most of her performance costumes are of her own creation.



In 2010 at the Sydney Festival, showing over 250 productions, Elli was part of a team that won ‘The Sydney Festival Award for outstanding Independent Artist’ as well as winning ‘The Bytecraft Exceptional Achievement Award in Production and Design.’ Later, in 2015, she won the Aerial Allstars circus arts competition coming first place in Australia & New Zealand. In 2017 she received a Bronze Medal as well as a special juror's choice award from the Australian Circus Festival. She also appeared in Germany’s got Talent in 2020 where she was asked to go directly to the finals of the competition for her one-of-a-kind vocal aerial cube act. In 2021, Elli, along with 5 other artists, created the company A Movement of Humans and developed their own 50 minute outdoor show titled NOW Departing, which has gone on to tour Summer festival across Europe.



Elli has also worked alongside some of the world’s most distinguished companies in entertainment in the corporate world, such as Foxtel, Tony & Guy, YouTube, Bvlgari, Toyota and Sony, consulting, choreographing and performing for clients internationally. Also working in television, she has appeared in shows such as X-Factor, Australia’s next top model and many TVC commercials like the V8 Supercars featuring pop artist P!nk.