About Didier Pasquette

“The high-wire walker strives to lure the audience away from thoughts of death by the beauty of what he does on the wire. His job is to create a sensation of limitless freedom.”

Didier Pasquette is one of the few great high wire artists working at the present time. Born in France where he studied with Philippe Petit (famous for his 1974 high wire walk between the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center), Pasquette performs in circus shows, and undertakes special high wire walks in dramatic environments.

In 1997, Pasquette walked with a colleague on a 430 metre wire 30 metres above the River Thames. To celebrate the millennium, he walked along a specially rigged high wire running along the Greenwich Meridian in Northern France. In 2005 he walked the length of the pitch on a wire stretched high above the Stade de France in Paris.

The high wire walk at Red Road in North Glasgow marked a new change of scene for Pasquette, exchanging the beautiful surroundings of tourist landmarks for the gritty realities of a post-war housing estate, its tower blocks conceived as streets in the sky.