Man On Wire: Philippe Petit in 2002

The documentary about Petit’s legendary World Trade Center aerial walk opened in theaters last week; watch this post-9/11 NY Voices segment with Petit talking about art and dreams. Read more about the documentary.

Among the featured performers was Philippe Petit, the French aerialist famous for crossing from one World Trade Center tower to the other on a tightrope in 1974. Petit commemorated his historic feat by walking the highwire once again, this time across the Hammerstein Ballroom. But as the daredevil performer was the first to point out, the title of the evening, “Arts on the Highwire,” referred to more than just his legendary stroll: “It is meant to suggest that the arts have been shaken since the disaster and are existing without a safety net.”

See NY Voices site.