Philippe Petit: The journey across the high wire
Philippe Petit: El viaje a través de la cuerda floja
High-wire artist Philippe Petit surprised the world when he walked illegally between the Twin Towers in 1974. Full bio
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los dioses de la creatividad.
un minuto de silencio.
destreza y coordinación.
voy a ser malabarista.
de una banda,
se escondía de los demás.
mis nuevos palos.
más malabaristas,
voy a caminar sobre la cuerda floja.
por unas zapatillas.
por la cuerda floja.
colegios diferentes
que hacen en el circo,
y a actuar sin permiso.
a salvo al otro lado.
una vida que conozco.
que pensamos que está vacío.
55 metros de cable.
mis pasos más pequeños...
personaje cómico, silencioso,
malabarismo callejero, ¿no?
el Festival de Israel
judío de Jerusalén,
cada uno de mis pasos.
empujándome al triunfo.
que la silla es mi destino.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Philippe Petit - High-wire artistHigh-wire artist Philippe Petit surprised the world when he walked illegally between the Twin Towers in 1974.
Why you should listen
Besides having stretched a steel cable without permission between the towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, high-wire artist Philippe Petit is a street juggler, writes, draws, performs close-up magic, practices lock-picking and 18th-century timber framing, plays chess, studies French wine, gives lectures and workshops on creativity and motivation, and was recently sighted bullfighting in Peru. Also, he has been arrested over 500 times … for street juggling.
Petit’s book To Reach the Clouds is the basis of the Academy Award-wining documentary film Man on Wire. His new high-wire project on Easter Island -- Rapa Nui Walk -- is an homage to the Rapa Nui and their giant carved stone statues, the Moai.
Petit is working on his seventh book, Why Knot? He just completed his first series of Master Classes: Tightrope! An Exploration into the Theatre of Balance. He is also hard at work on a new one-man stage show titled Wireless! Philippe Petit Down to Earth.
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