“The most graceful lie ever told,” is the visceral response to the juxtaposition of flowing movement with the solidity of chains. Audiences experience Alec’s performance as “trancelike,” and “meditative;” awash in a quiet contradiction of sensory events that invite viewers to feel what they see. His ever-expanding relationship with aerial chains has led to a sensation-based partnership with the apparatus, treating them as a contact-improv partner, as well as a physical thinking exercise. Their work explores themes of identity construction, body sovereignty, and kinesthetic strategies of queer survivance through the spectacular body. His current investigation is in the relationship of performer to object, using their body in various stages of modification and its changes in response to outside forces, both tangible and intangible, organic and systemic.