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Trapeze artist Kaely Michels-Gualtieri is flying high

many people, it would be hard to set aside one’s life and choose a life of travel and adrenaline that the circus has to offer. For an 18-year-old girl from Washington, DC the choice was very easy. After finishing high school, Kaely Michels-Gualtieri strayed from the normal path of a Jewish teenager, joining a traveling circus as a trapeze artist instead of going to college. As a senior at the Field School in Washington, DC she was given the opportunity to intern at the Circus School of San Francisco as the first intern the school had. It was from this two-week experience that she knew she wanted to perform as a trapeze artist. She went to trapeze school in Italy for a year, then for […]
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