Brazil carnival artist rises above pandemic – on stilts

LIFE / CULTURE
Giant dreamers
By AFP Published: May 13, 2021 05:43 PM
Members of the Estacao Primeira de Mangueira samba school perform in the 2020 Rio Carnival Parades on February 23, 2020 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo: VCG
Raquel Poti barely stands five feet (152 centimeters) tall, but the diminutive stilt-walker used to tower over the crowd at Rio de Janeiro's carnival - whose cancelation due to COVID-19 has made her reinvent her art form to keep it alive.
Poti, 37, is one of the legions of Brazilian
pernaltas, or stilt-walkers, who loom like colorful giants over the festivities at Rio's famed carnival, an extravaganza of parades and street parties that draws millions of revelers each year - except in 2021, when the pandemic forced the authorities to cancel it.

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