CIRQUE ITALIA

Local trapeze artist wows in Manassas appearance


The view from above: Aerial gymast Kaely Michels-Gaultieri performs with Cirque Italia in Manassas, VA.
from: washingtonpost.com
By Julie Zauzmer
June 30,2013
Once upon a time, a little girl from Washington learned how to fly.
Of course, like all fairy tales, it wasn’t that simple to complete her quest. She had to practice 10 hours a day, six days a week, for five long years. She had to move halfway around the world as a teenager and learn two new languages in just a couple of months each. She had to face the constant risk of injury and one very real dislocated elbow.

(Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post) - Kaely Michels Gualtieri, 23, in her Avatar makeup before she performs her aerial act in the Cirque Italia on June, 30, 2013 in Manassas, Va.
But the hundreds of spectators who watch her in action nowadays know that she completed her quest. Kaely Michels-Gualtieri certainly can fly.
Michels-Gualtieri, 23, has been training as a trapeze artist since she graduated from the Field School in the District in 2007. Although she pursued her education in Italy, France and Canada, her first professional job, as an aerial performer in Cirque Italia, has brought her back home. She joined the show last week in Gaithersburg and is currently doing flips on a swinging bar about 20 feet in the air in Manassas. After that, the show will be in Owings Mills, Md.
(Cirque Italia is playing OwingsMills, MD this week)
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