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Raquel Poti barely stands five feet tall, but the diminutive stilt-walker used to tower over the crowd at Rio de Janeiro s carnival - whose cancellation 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 colourful giants over the festivities at Rio s famed carnival, an extravaganza of parades and street parties that draws millions of revellers each year - except this year, when the pandemic forced the authorities to cancel it.
Poti fell in love with performance at age four, at an Epiphany festival.