From 1994 to the present, the adventure of Alias is that of a Genevan company who was able to reach, since its first production, an audience that has remained faithful for a more than twenty year stretch of surprising research in style, incredible choreographic discoveries and an extremely rich imagination for set design.

Guilherme Botelho’s company deals with the major themes in the human condition; his shows seem to probe the human soul in depth: desperate quest for love in his first creation, En manque (Abstinence); household violence, masks and appearances in Contrecoup (Repercussions); genetic manipulations in Frankenstein!, Approcher la poussière (Bring forth the dust) hinges on the principle of reiteration, and Botelho made a lasting impression on the general public with his creation, on December 31st  1999, on the immense Plainpalais square in Geneva, of Le Spectacle du temps (The Spectacle of Time), which marked the passing of the millennium.

The notion of destiny is present throughout his work by way of accidents or props falling from heaven: water, paper, snow, patches of plaster…The stage sets of his previous shows were often impressive and left indelible images in the minds of the spectators:  for example the room filling up with water in Moving a perhaps, the immense, motionless wave in Vaguement derrière (Vaguely behind), a show that was incorporated in the repertoire of the Tanztheater Ballet Bielefeld in 2010, or the snow covering the entire stage in  O avesso do avesso.