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Daniel Seabra

Fig. 015

High wire — Portugal

Plate 015 — Daniel SeabraRiso · 0.18 line · dip pen — plate Graphite / indigo

Biography

Synopsis

Portuguese acrobat, aerial and high-wire artist trained at the Chapitó circus school in Lisbon (2010–2013). He has performed with Cirque Pinder, Royal Circus and La Fura dels Baus, and worked with Walt Disney. A longtime member of the Porto company Erva Daninha, he created Por um Fio, a high-wire piece about balance and trust between two performers on a suspended rope. He taught aerial technique at Salto School from 2017 to 2022 and won the first Prémio Jovens Artistas at the Coliseu do Porto.

Walks wire strung between the collective's sculptures. No net, one rehearsal.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

— Frida Kahlo