Benedita Moura
Alagoas, Brazil, 1923
Acrobat, trapezist. She started her artistic career performing i her brother in law's circus, in Northeast Brazil. Benedita married José Moura with whom she had six children, all circus artists. The son José Wilson Moura Leite is a trapezist and belongs to the third generation of the Moura family. He was the creator of the Circo Escola Picadeiro in São Paulo.
