Philippe Petit recreates high-wire walk between World Trade Center's twin towers on 50th anniversary
Fifty years after his iconic high-wire walk between the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center, Philippe Petit recreated the death-defying stunt with a performance about seven miles north of the trade center at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The 74-year-old artist sought to celebrate the “glorious days of the twin towers” rather than focus on their tragic end in a terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001. Petit said he aimed to honor both his remarkable feat and the legacy of the towers. Petit... Читать дальше...