Xuxu (Alves)
Franco Alves Monteiro

São João do Nepomuceno, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1939

Acrobat, actor, cyclist, globist, trapezist, tamer, and clown. He is part of the fourth generation of the Alves family and his parents are Afonso Corominas Monteiro and Adenides Alves. He learned contortion from his parents when he was four. As a clown, he performed in the circuses Garcia, Sciavon and Bombril with Walter Stuart (1952-1953). Xuxu taught comedy at Academia Piolin, São Paulo. His son is the clown Bozo.

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