In 1926, British dancer, choreographer, and educator Margaret Morris was invited to Leysin by Dr. Auguste Rollier to contribute to his pioneering research on health, movement, and rehabilitation. From this collaboration emerged a movement approach rooted in care and guided by deeply humanistic values. Through a wide range of documents, the SAPA Foundation traces the life and work of this remarkable dance educator.

A century later, the method continues to be passed on in Switzerland from one generation to the next through the commitment of dedicated teachers. This living tradition is reflected in the archives of the Swiss Association for the Margaret Morris Method, preserved by the SAPA Foundation. Compiled between 2019 and 2026, the collection brings together the personal and teaching archives of several instructors. It documents the history of the method, its practices, the life of the Swiss association, and its connections to both the founder and the international organization.

This rich and diverse collection includes teaching and organizational documents, books and booklets related to the various color levels, teachers’ notes, photographs of classes and performances, press articles, Margaret Morris’s drawings, posters, correspondence, postcards, and objects. Together, they bear witness to a living legacy in which movement, breathing, music, creativity, and color come together.

Still growing today and now extending to nearly one linear meter of archival material, the collection serves simultaneously as memory, a tool for transmission, and a source of daily inspiration—true to a method that has been dancing life in color for one hundred years.

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