Bagunça
Benedito Jorge de Souza
Taquarituba, São Paulo, Brazil, 1940
Acrobat, trapezist, actor, clown, globist and perchist, Bagunça learned early education in Circo Irmãs Miranda, where he started performing on the stilts at age 15. This circus was set up behind his house in the town of Itaí, São Paulo, and there the artists went to get water. In his long career he performed in the circus of Pedro and Flora Stevanowich, Dally Palacios and Ramon Scalli, acting with Marinalva Gardina. Afterwards he owned an amusement park and Circo São Jorge with bulls in the arena.