ACROBAT
At the age of fourteen, Alastair started breakdancing with his brother. But Alastair inserted explosive, acrobatic moves into the flow of the dance. Clearly, he needed something different, and so he tried Free Running and Parkour. In 2008, with his two brothers and four English partners, he auditioned for admission to circus schools in France. The following year, he began his studies at the École Nationale des Arts de Cirque in Rosny-sous-Bois. There he learned the disciplines of propulsion with four other students, his first group. Next, he hooked up with a second group where he met Jules Trupin, with whom he entered the Centre National des Arts du Cirque in Châlons-en-Champagne. Alastair and Jules decided to pursue their joint research on the Korean plank, inventing a unique approach to movement and acrobatics on that apparatus.
