Watch: Brazil carnival artist rises above pandemic - on stilts

Raquel Poti barely stands five feet tall, but the diminutive stilt-walker used to tower over the crowd at Rio de Janeiro's carnival - whose cancellation due to Covid-19 has made her reinvent her art form to keep it alive.

Poti, 37, is one of the legions of Brazilian "pernaltas," or stilt-walkers, who loom like colourful giants over the festivities at Rio's famed carnival, an extravaganza of parades and street parties that draws millions of revellers each year - except this year, when the pandemic forced the authorities to cancel it.