Philippe petit world trade center after 9/11
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Philippe Petit on his Twin Towers walk, 50 years later
On Wednesday and Thursday of this week, Philippe Petit will walk a highwire across the nave of St.
John the Divine in New York City, the world's largest cathedral. "My love for magnificent places and my love for walking on the tightrope and sharing with an audience my passion has not changed," he said.
He's walked this space many times before.
Philippe petit world trade center after 9/11
But this week's walks will not really be about here and now; they'll be a celebration of that other walk, the one he spectacularly took 50 years ago, on August 7. 1974, between the Twin Towers, a quarter of a mile up.
Petit said, "I can see a photograph, and immediately that pulls me into remembering – remembering not only with my brain, but with my body."
He crossed back and forth eight times in 45 minutes.
For the Oscar-winning documentary "Man on Wire," he wanted music by Erik Satie: "The first 'Gymnopédie' is a piece of music that is made of suspension, it's ma