Aliza 1987

Winterthur
São Paulo
Wagenhausen
Stein am Rhein
Schaffhausen
Zurich
New York
Berlin
Zurich
Tel Aviv
Zurich
Waitress
Assistant Director
Property Scout
Babysitter
Dancer
Dance Lecturer
Choreographer
Theater Educator
Director
Performer
Project Manager

JANUARY 2001: My father has to go to prison for defrauding UBS. He is so afraid of this punishment, he tries to kill himself the night before.

DECEMBER 2001: I go to the youth theatre for the first time. That night I become addicted to this drug called theatre.

OCTOBER 2006: In a Russian mafia-like restaurant in New York where I work in the evenings I meet J. Panetta, my most important mentor. She expands my vision of the performing arts and defines my essential approach to these worlds of theatre and dance.

MARCH 2009: I get my first job as a dancer in a dance theatre production in Berlin and move back to Europe.

AUGUST 2010: I begin studying directing at Zurich University of the Arts.

SEPTEMBER 2011: My mother comes out as homosexual and introduces me that same day to her new girlfriend.

NOVEMBER 2011: My godchild is born. He is exactly the same age as the foetus which I aborted nine months ago.

APRIL 2012: My father dies after eleven years of mental illness.

MAY 2012: I move to Tel Aviv because of the theatre project 'Saving Philotas'. I discover a new life and fall in love.

SEPTEMBER 2012: I get to know part of my family in London. The Holocaust spread my family across the entire world. My cousin saw me just after I was born, then we lost touch. Meeting again now after twenty-six years is like a little miracle.

03/25/2013