Word: funambulists
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...York, and you are never allowed to forget it. Archie Peltier, an artist from Minneapolis, was responsible for most of the engineering, and his handiwork is impressive. People can walk up inside the Ruckus World Trade Center, looking at its "tenants," finally meeting a diminutive figure of the funambulist Philippe Petit walking the rope between the towers...
...long time." Boris Aronson has complied by designing a circus maximus that is the finest set of the season. Doing away completely with a proscenium curtain, the set bulges out into the audience. A raked stage boasts a marvelously rhythmic series of ramps and stairs, culminating in a funambulist's platform that doubles as a modern counterpart of the old Greek drama's theologeion. There are ropes and pulleys, and part of the canvas tent...
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