Toni Marques
Sergio Petrônio Marques
São Paulo, Brazil, 1954
Clown. At age nine he left home and joined Circo Giglio, a circus with wild animals that came to his town Vera Cruz, São Paulo. There he began working as an assistant, selling popcorn and helping to take care of the elephant "Madu". In his spare time, he would researse the flying trapeze. Years later he began to perform at Circo Romano Garcia (magician, trapezist); Portugal, Billi Barnun, owned by Bira Loco, (juggler, cown); Grand Bartholo Circus (Troupe Brascope on the trapeze with Pituca);, high-wire and trampoline with Jovani Brascope Junior, Sussuca and the pupet Xiru; Circo Di Roma, Spacial, Circo do Papai (owned by Antonio Luiz Jardim), Power, Moça Fiesta. Some years later he bought Circo Montana from Ramon Marambio Junior. After Federico Orfei's death he bought a circus from Lisete in partnership with Mário and Ana Martielli. Together with Brasil Sepúlveda Júnior they organized a circus school in which Toni made the first tent himself. Nowadays he is the owner of Circo Teatro Cultural.