One Saturday last October, between the skyscrapers of São Paulo’s main avenue, surrounded by thousands turned out for yet another protest against Brazil’s far right president, a hog danced with a leopard.
They were joined by a six-legged beetle, a parrot, a pink dolphin and over a dozen other people in similarly elaborate animal costumes, each brandishing banners proclaiming, in Portuguese, gnomic phrases such as “Cosmic Dancer”, “Defend Happiness” and “Gaia’s Return”. Some danced, others blew bubbles or burned incense.
