Philippe Petit

Philippe Petit: At Home

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
March 22, 2013

You may think that a wire-walker has little or nothing to do with jazz or art. But to me, wire-walking is all about rhythm, balance and expression. In the case of Philippe Petit—perhaps the world's most famous wire-walker and juggler—there's also poetry and philosophy. Philippe, as you surely recall, brazenly and illegally walked between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in August 1974 after attaching a wire between them using a bow and arrow. The mere idea of ...
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