My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.
From Philippe Petit
I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.
I have been performing in the street for more than 50 years: magic for basically 60 years, and the high wire 45 years. The beauty of it is that it's never the same. It's never easy. And yet, part of my art is to make it look easy.
I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic.
I was never part of the sailing circle, but I enjoy when I'm invited to sail.
Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.
I did a walk in 1973 illegally in the northern side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge.
I have a fear of water, believe it or not. To put a wire 12 feet over a swimming pool frightens me. I don't like water.
It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal to be simply terrified. The reason I'm not is because I've done it for so many years.
I've been arrested many times for illegal high wire walking and illegal street performing.
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