the world-renowned canadian circus, cirque du soleil, has also been a regular show in the city, visiting five times since 2006, with the most recent coming in 2013, with the popular corteo show, stunning crowds with 19 acts, including acrobats, trapeze artists and a tightrope, all around a state of the art 360 ° revolving stage.

another huge circus coup for the city was the addition of the biggest circus festival of latin american, the festival internacional de circo, which began in 2013 - welcoming an estimated 400 performers, across 60 venues, for about 200 shows, the festival focuses on spreading the joy of the circus to everyone in the city, with many of the shows taking place in the favelas, eventually reaching an estimated 250 thousand spectators.

Since its first edition, the Festival Internacional de Circo do Rio de Janeiro has been regarded as the biggest event of the artistic genre in Latin America - For 10 days, during the month of May, Rio de Janeiro welcomes circus performers and every kind of artist to enjoy the magic in the yearly edition of this fest which attracts more than 250.000 to any of the 60 centers that host shows and activities around the city, of which 46 are located in favelas and some along the shores of copacabana.