Agostinho Bastos
Augusto Bastos

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1916 - Rio de Janeiro, 1994

Acrobat, hand-balancer, perchist, icarian, equilibrist and clown Desaperta. Son of a sergeant and a laundress, he was adopted by the Olimecha family with whom he lived until the age of twenty-two. After a quarrel with the owner of the circus, Carlo Franco Olimecha, he left the family in search of his origins at the notary office in the neighborhood of Bomsucesso, in the north zone of Rio de Janeiro. There he requested a new birth certificate with his father’s family name, Bastos. Agostinho married Heloisa Azevedo. All five of their children became artists: Pirajá, Anapuru, Uirapuru, Ubiratan e Canaguari Azevedo. Augustinho was part of the first team of teachers in the National Circus School in Rio de Janeiro along with other traditional circus artists such as Ubirajara Henriques, Delizier Rethy, Armando Pepino, Edvar Ozon, Neusa Mattos, Oskar Klenk and Bernardo Farfan. His son, Pirajá Azevedo, has been teaching there since 1992.

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