Florence, 7 August 2023 – UN artist, person who makes “theatre in heaven” as he defines himself, a French tightrope walker who went down in history after keeping the whole world in suspense and turning up his nose. All this is Philippe Petit, who on August 7, 1974 stretched Rope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center and there he walked, back and forth, 8 times. “Cross” 42 and a half meters long, made in 411 meters high, which lasted three quarters of an hour and was an unprecedented feat, which in no small measure contributed to the popularization of the two tallest skyscrapers in New York. He explained his feat this way: “After the first transition was completed, I still did not want to celebrate. I have only used it for rope testing. I felt like a king, very elegant, sitting on his throne, says the artist. talking about how he relaxed in the middle of the rope … Then I saw the audience below and did not want to disappoint them. So, in 45 minutes, I crossed the wire eight times.” The cable is important to him: “It’s like a living animal, the curve of a contact network, never straight, but rather a smile that unites two places and at the same time unites people living in the same places,” he later stated. : “It will never be a sport. Sports are made for pleasure, to compete, there is no depth of art in it. Instead I’I make theater in the sky‘. And this is in solitude. There is always loneliness in any artist who is passionate about his art. It’s important to be alone. – Fear? “I never feel fear. I’m too focused. When I’m on the tightrope, I carry my life with me, that’s who I am.” How did you become a tightrope walker? “It was completely natural. I started playing magic games, then juggling, and finally I came to tightrope walking as a natural evolution.” Born today Charlize Theron born August 7, 1975 in Benoni. He said: “My mother convinced me to do what I wanted, to escape from a remote village in Africa. There was no television in the house, and there was not even a cinema in the nearest town. Hollywood was the legend there, not the Los Angeles area. Despite this isolation, my mother was able to teach me courage. It gave me an independent spirit. He made possible my, or rather, our journey. As a teenager, I left South Africa to work as a model in Milan. At the time, I had nothing but a precious little phrase my mother taught me: “Whatever happens, think you can bear it, get over it, and then choose what you really want.”
