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''THE BIONIC HERO;
TO !WOW!''
Philippe Petit is a supple over 60 years old Frenchman, with unusually developed thighs, a screwdriver chin and darting blue eyes overhung by billowing champagne locks.
On 7th August, 1974, Petit became the world's most famous speck in the sky with an unlicensed traverse of the 130 feet gap that separated the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
His high-altitude portfolio also includes a Bridge for Peace over Jerusalem, the opening ceremonies for the Louisiana Superdome and the Vienna Film festival, sundry aerial improvisations with actors, singers and musicians in New York and Paris, and birthday celebrations for both the city of Frankfurt(500,000 spectators) and the Declaration of the Rights of Man(Palais of de Chaillot to Eiffel Tower). He did seven major walks in the Eighties, eight in the 90s.
The first known illustration of tightropery, is found on a stone engraving 2000 years old Chinese tomb, depicts one of Petit's predecessors performing a handstand on line slung over upturned knives.
Petit's dedication is absolute. Despite offers worth million of dollars, he has yet to endorse one single product. His self-denying philosophy is a rare and a shinning example in the world.
His reluctance to be owned has kept many proposals to immortalise his WTC exploit on the ground.
Balanced on a wire 1368 feet above the earth. Philippe Petit showed the world what it was to be fearless.
Giles Croft, the Playhouses aristic Director, who composed a play on Petit concludes interestingly: ''The play is is a caper about a universal fear. Philippe does have a fear. But Phillipe can conquer it.''
Petit has his own philosophic version: ''This is an imaginative world of misdirection.There is an infinity of moves, -body language,psychology,choreography, timing!''
But I think it is all about raw courage and a modicum of lunacy! Ha ha ha!
Good Night & God Bless!
TO !WOW!''
Philippe Petit is a supple over 60 years old Frenchman, with unusually developed thighs, a screwdriver chin and darting blue eyes overhung by billowing champagne locks.
On 7th August, 1974, Petit became the world's most famous speck in the sky with an unlicensed traverse of the 130 feet gap that separated the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
His high-altitude portfolio also includes a Bridge for Peace over Jerusalem, the opening ceremonies for the Louisiana Superdome and the Vienna Film festival, sundry aerial improvisations with actors, singers and musicians in New York and Paris, and birthday celebrations for both the city of Frankfurt(500,000 spectators) and the Declaration of the Rights of Man(Palais of de Chaillot to Eiffel Tower). He did seven major walks in the Eighties, eight in the 90s.
The first known illustration of tightropery, is found on a stone engraving 2000 years old Chinese tomb, depicts one of Petit's predecessors performing a handstand on line slung over upturned knives.
Petit's dedication is absolute. Despite offers worth million of dollars, he has yet to endorse one single product. His self-denying philosophy is a rare and a shinning example in the world.
His reluctance to be owned has kept many proposals to immortalise his WTC exploit on the ground.
Balanced on a wire 1368 feet above the earth. Philippe Petit showed the world what it was to be fearless.
Giles Croft, the Playhouses aristic Director, who composed a play on Petit concludes interestingly: ''The play is is a caper about a universal fear. Philippe does have a fear. But Phillipe can conquer it.''
Petit has his own philosophic version: ''This is an imaginative world of misdirection.There is an infinity of moves, -body language,psychology,choreography, timing!''
But I think it is all about raw courage and a modicum of lunacy! Ha ha ha!
Good Night & God Bless!
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