Live Like An Acrobat Podcast Ep.49: Circus Legacy Matters with Ricardo Sosa
On this episode of the Live Like An Acrobat Podcast, host Shenea Stiletto interviews handbalancer, contortionist, and inventor Ricardo Sosa who was born in Havana, Cuba. At seventeen, he enrolled in the Yuri Mandich Circus School in Havana, the national, Russian-style state circus school. In 1994, while performing in Colombia at Circo Egred Hermanos, Ricardo and other performers in the Cuban troupe defected. It was a huge scandal in Havana: Never before had such an important group of performers defected.
Ricardo has since settled in the United States, where he has worked extensively for companies including Circus Circus and the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Teatro ZinZanni in Seattle, Washington and San Francisco, California; Universoul Circus; and Circus Sarasota. He has also embarked on an international career, appearing with Circo Moira Orfei in Italy and numerous variety shows in Germany, notably with GOP Varieté and Palazzo.
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