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Philippe Petit

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    Philippe Petit

    The odd life of Philippe Petit
  • Vallauris

    performance for artist Pablo Picasso's 90th birthday
  • World Trade Center Tightrope

    Philippe's most Famous Tight Rope walk
  • Central Park

    inclined walk over Belvedere Lake
  • Skysong

    high-wire play directed and produced by Petit for the opening of the State University of New York Arts Festival
  • Museum of the City of New York

    high-wire performance for the opening of the museum's "Daring New York" exhibit
  • Lincoln Center

    high-wire performance for the reopening of the Statue of Liberty
  • Tour Eiffel

    creation of the role of the eagle in a production of From the House of the Dead, an opera by Leoš Janáček directed by Volker Schlöndorff
  • Tokyo Walk

    Japan's first high-wire performance to celebrate the opening of the Plaza Mikado building in Tokyo's Akasaka district
  • ACT

    medieval performance to celebrate the 25th anniversary of a New York City youth program
  • Crossing Broadway

    inclined walk, fourteen stories high, for the television talk show the Late Show with David Letterman