Débora was born in 1997 in Campinas, Brazil. Circus entered her life at the age of twelve, when she discovered aerial silks in a small dance school.
Guided by her passion for circus arts, she encountered dramatic arts at the University of Campinas through the research group “Circo Em Cena,” aiming to create and explore work alongside students in circus, theatre, and dance.
She continued her path at the National Circus School of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, an institution that has been training artists for 25 years. Under the influence of traditional circus masters, she spent two years learning disciplines such as rope, Chinese pole, acrobatics, and aerial silks. She participated in the first biennial of the school with the show Um pintor e uma tela em branco, directed by Italian director Roberto Magro. Through this encounter, she began to better understand European circus and, intrigued by both worlds, decided to continue her studies in Europe at the École nationale des arts du cirque de Rosny-sous-Bois.
In 2018, she joined the 33rd promotion of the Centre national des arts du cirque.
Passionate about height, she chose aerial silks as her main discipline, as it was through this apparatus that she learned to love and move in the air. However, her fascination with height is not limited to this apparatus, as her work on the Chinese pole also evolves in parallel. She also develops research into how to transpose her qualities as an aerial performer into spaces beyond the stage or circus ring, with or without her apparatus.
Her training gives her the opportunity to work with directors such as Pierre Rigal and Gilles Cailleau, introducing her to circus creation through dance and theatre.
Over the course of her three-year training, she develops a dynamic language that contrasts with the softness of her silks. Her long relationship with the apparatus allows her to personify it, attempting to make it move and speak. She builds conversations with it, constantly questioning the thoughts that have always haunted her.