‘Man on Wire’ star, Phillipe Petit, brought his gravity-defying skills to the National Building Museum.
The screams of hundreds of schoolchildren ring through the atrium of the National Building Museum. “Ahhhhh!” they cry, waving their hands in the air at the adult emcee who’s babbling like an auctioneer before them. She’s getting them hyped to see Phillipe Petit—the famed wirewalker who, in 1974, illegally traversed the sky between the Twin Towers in Manhattan. Now 73, Petit is about to walk a wire strung across this grand, colonnaded room..
The emcee settles the children, then Petit appears in the balcony wearing a white button-down and a colorful striped vest. He’s flanked by two young children who were apparently inspired by his book about the Twin Towers and became wirewalkers in their garden at home. The girls wrote him a fan letter, so he drove to DC to visit them. He tells the crowd that his message is, “Do not give up in front of adversity. Believe that anything is possible.
Petit is focused and rigorous, but not joyless—he’ll sometimes do a theatrical step, a dancerly gesture. During another pass, he sits casually astride the wire and then, at his signal, the fountain below spurts to life, flinging water 30 feet in the air. The schoolchildren gasp and applaud.
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