Rita Maria de Souza Silva
Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1953
Trapezist. She debuted at age seventeen in a performance with the Pepino family in corde lisse, knife throwing, lasso and whips acts. She worked for Águias Humanas, Charles Barry and Vostok until 1993. Rita married the trapezist, Eliceu da Silva.
