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Swiss circus performer brings her passion to New Orleans

At a young age, circus artist Meret Ryhiner migrated to the United States to study circus arts in New York. She became a professional circus artist and eventually moved to New Orleans.

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A documentary and animation filmmaker from Bern, Michele studied film at Zurich University of the Arts. He's been a swissinfo.ch video journalist since 2004 and has a special interest in developing new video formats for mobile viewing, mixing animation and documentary styles.

Not content to mind her own business, Susan studied journalism in Boston so she’d have the perfect excuse to put herself in other people’s shoes and worlds. When not writing, she presents and produces podcasts and videos.

Michele Andina and Susan Misicka in New Orleans

This is the story of how a road accident and hurricane Katrina changed her life, as well as the lives of the people in her community.

And what do her students have to say? In this episode of our podcast they share what working with Miss Meret has meant to them.


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