Teresita Mendez Aurich
Colombia, 1950
Acrobat, equilibrist, wire-walker. She comes from the third generation of Spanish artists and started at five performing contortion. She worked for the circuses Tihany, Garcia, Bartholo,Orlando Ofei and Fuentes Gasca performing teeterboard and high-wire with her husband Oswaldo Aurich, whom she met in a circus in Bogotá, and their daughter, Romina Aurich.
