Originally coming from drawing and painting, Alexander Ray Brettell discovers the movement during his art formation in high school, as a way to create spontaneously from the invisible, using the eyes and memory as canvas. For years he explored the doing and the being threw a large scale of practice as juggling, dancing, clowning, contact improvisation, butö, theater, singing, inspired and learning from masters as Gyohei Zeitsu, David Zambrano, Julyen Hamilton, Anne-Marie Blink … He created several pieces or act based on Improvisation, always to explores the poetry of what is beyond the seen.

“MirAges” and “silences” where performed many time and still comes out at some occasions today.

 

In 2015, he co-found the FAAAAC J (Formation Avancée Alternative Autogérée des Arts de la Jonglerie) to precise his relationship with juggling as a tool to perform.

Since he developed a practice of juggling where he uses his clubs as pencils which brings him to movement and permit to interact with inner and outside world.

 

By the same time he co-found the collective Eole-Project with Thibaut Mathieu (Bach la Ouach) and Julien Munsch and the piece “Eole” as an exploration of the poetry of the wind and the movement threw juggling.

He also developed a project with the musician and performer Jérémie Chapelain as the Cie Au Dessus Des Nuages where they have been exploring the poetry of dying and rebirth as a piece called “Precipitations”.