Rita de Cássia Medeiros
Alagoas, Brazil, 1962
Acrobat, cyclist, juggler, trapezist. She is part of the third generation of the Medeiros family from Alagoas, Northeast Brazil. She made a debut at age eight performing double trapeze, Spanish web, lyra and ladder acts. Rita married the juggler Geraldo Romero, known as Gegê, and retired in 1993.