Ziya Azazi

Ziya Azazi was born in 1969 in Antakya, Turkey. He graduated in Mining Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and trained in gymnastics at intervals.

Between 1990 and 1994 he performed as a dancer at the Istanbul City Theatres, where he made his first choreographic works. From 1994 to 2000 he worked with various dance companies in Vienna.

In 1999 he was awarded the Dance Weber grant and named “Austria's Most Outstanding Dancer of the Year” by Ballet International magazine.