José Elias de Oliveira
Macau, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, 1910 - São Paulo, Brazil, 1958
Acrobat, equilibrist, trapezist. He comes from the second generation of th Oliveira family, living in the State of Bahia. His parents are Manoel Elias de Oliveira and Francelina Elias de Oliveira. When he was ten, he debuted on the flyingtrapeze and thenperformed ladder acts in the circuses Nerino, Fekete, Buranhén, Robattini and Buffalo Bill (owned by Oswaldo Batista).