“some men, a very few, are born to bring wonder into our lives…”Andrew Denton interviewed Philippe Petit on Enough Rope tonight, in anticipation of Man on Wire opening in Australia this week.
Denton: Of all the amazing things in this act, the thing that most astonishes me is when you lie down on the wire, you lie flat, and then you stand up again. That strikes me as breaking several laws of gravity.
Petit: [bemused, as though the idea of laws of gravity is entirely new to him] You know, I never thought of the high wire as a technical world, although i am practicing still today three hours a day on the wire. I always thought of the wire as theatre, as something really very special and inspiring, where the physical act should not have the most importance… and when you say that laying down the wire and standing up is physically demanding and physically difficult, i’m not interested in that. I’m interested in the idea… of a man or a woman walking on thin air or a little wire, that at some point will be so well in their world that they can fall asleep…
Is that not our task? Finding the way of being so well in the world that we are bemused by the idea that some law of gravity might get in our way…
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Being at peace
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