Before being called Romanès, Alexandre went by the name of Bouglione. One day he slammed the door of the family circus: "Too big, too many tents, too many trucks, it wasn't human anymore". Twenty years later he met "the terrible" Délia, a Romani woman from Romania who spoke and sang "Romanès", the Romani language.
Together, they had five children, including four girls, whom he taught acrobatics, contortion or juggling, and he founded a small circus that he called Romanès. This family led by a poet, this clan of acrobatic wanderers and musicians wants to preserve at all costs what is most important to them: the right to be nomadic and free. An uphill battle these days.
Before being called Romanès, Alexandre went by the name of Bouglione. One day he slammed the door of the family circus: "Too big, too many tents, too many trucks, it wasn't human anymore". Twenty years later he met "the terrible" Délia, a Romani woman from Romania who spoke and sang "Romanès", the Romani language.
Together, they had five children, including four girls, whom he taught acrobatics, contortion or juggling, and he founded a small circus that he called Romanès. This family led by a poet, this clan of acrobatic wanderers and musicians wants to preserve at all costs what is most important to them: the right to be nomadic and free. An uphill battle these days.