Major High-wire Performances
| Year | Walk | Location | Notes |
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| 1971 | Vallauris | Vallauris, Alpes-Maritimes, France | performance for artist Pablo Picasso's 90th birthday |
| Notre Dame Cathedral | Notre Dame Cathedral Paris, France |
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| 1973 | Sydney Harbour Bridge | Sydney Harbour Bridge Sydney, Australia |
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| 1974 | World Trade Center | World Trade Center New York City, New York, United States |
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| Central Park | Central Park New York City, New York, United States |
inclined walk over Belvedere Lake | |
| Laon Cathedral | Laon Cathedral Laon, Picardy, France |
crossing between the cathedral's two spires for an international television special | |
| 1975 | Louisiana Superdome | Louisiana Superdome New Orleans, Louisiana, United States |
walk for the opening of the stadium |
| 1982 | Cathedral of Saint John the Divine | Cathedral of Saint John the Divine New York City, New York, United States |
walk celebrating renewal of the cathedral's construction following a forty-year hiatus |
| Concert in the Sky | Denver, Colorado, United States | high-wire play directed and produced by Petit for the opening of the World Theatre Festival | |
| 1983 | Skysong | New York, United States | high-wire play directed and produced by Petit for the opening of the State University of New York Arts Festival |
| Centre Georges Pompidou | Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, France |
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| 1984 | Corde Raide-Piano Volant | Paris, France | high-wire play directed and produced by Petit with pop-music singer-songwriter Jacques Higelin |
| Paris Opera | Paris Opera Paris, France |
high-wire improvisation with opera singer Margherita Zimmermann | |
| Museum of the City of New York | Museum of the City of New York New York City, New York, United States |
high-wire performance for the opening of the museum's "Daring New York" exhibit | |
| 1986 | Ascent | Cathedral of Saint John the Divine New York City, New York, United States |
concert for grand piano and high wire on an inclined cable over the nave of the cathedral |
| Lincoln Center | Lincoln Center New York City, New York, United States |
high-wire performance for the reopening of the Statue of Liberty | |
| 1987 | Walking the Harp/A Bridge for Peace | Jerusalem, Israel | high-wire performance on an inclined cable linking the Jewish and Arab quarters for opening of Israel Festival under the auspices of Jerusalemite Mayor Teddy Kollek |
| Moondancer | Portland Center for the Performing Arts Portland, Oregon, United States |
high-wire opera for the opening of the center | |
| Grand Central Dances | Grand Central Terminal New York City, New York, United States |
high-wire choreography above the concourse of the terminal | |
| 1988 | House of the Dead | Paris, France | creation of the role of the eagle in a production of From the House of the Dead (1930), an opera by Leoš Janáček directed by Volker Schlöndorff |
| 1989 | Tour Eiffel | Paris, France | spectacular walk – for an audience of 250,000 – on an inclined 700-metre (2,300-foot) cable linking the Palais de Chaillot with the second story of the Eiffel Tower commemorating the French Bicentennial and the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen under the auspices of Parisian Mayor Jacques Chirac |
| 1990 | American Overture | American Center Paris, France |
high-wire play for the ground-breaking ceremony of the center |
| Tokyo Walk | Tokyo, Japan | Japan's first high-wire performance to celebrate the opening of the Plaza Mikado building in Tokyo's Akasaka district | |
| 1991 | Viennalewalk | Vienna, Austria | high-wire performance evoking the history of cinema for the opening of the Vienna International Film Festival under the direction of film director Werner Herzog |
| 1992 | Namur | Namur, Belgium | inclined walk to the Citadel of Vauban for a telethon benefiting children with leukemia |
| Farinet Funambule! | Switzerland | high-wire walk portraying the 19th-century Robin Hood of the Alps culminated by the harvest of the world's-smallest registered vineyard to benefit abused children | |
| The Monk's Secret Longing | Cathedral of Saint John the Divine New York City, New York, United States |
high-wire performance for the Regents' Dinner commencing the centennial celebrations of the cathedral | |
| 1994 | Historischer Hochseillauf | Frankfurt, Germany | historic high-wire walk on an inclined cable to celebrate the city's 1,200th anniversary, viewed by 500,000 spectators and the subject of a live, nationally broadcast television special |
| 1995 | Catenary Curve | New York City, New York, United States | humorous interlude during a conference on suspended structures given by the architect Santiago Calatrava |
| 1996 | ACT | New York City, New York, United States | medieval performance to celebrate the 25th anniversary of a New York City youth program |
| Crescendo | Cathedral of Saint John the Divine New York City, New York, United States |
theatrical, allegorical New Year's Eve performance on three different wires set in the nave of the cathedral as the farewell tribute to The Very Reverend James Parks Morton, Dean of the Cathedral, and his wife Pamela | |
| 1999 | Millennium Countdown Walk | Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History New York City, New York, United States |
Inauguration of the center |
| 2002 | Arts on the High Wire | Hammerstein Ballroom New York City, New York, United States |
benefit performance for the New York Arts Recovery Fund on an inclined wire, with clown Bill Irwin and pianist Evelyne Crochet |
| Crystal Palace | Jacob K. Javits Convention Center New York City, New York, United States |
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| Crossing Broadway | New York City, New York, United States | inclined walk, fourteen stories high, for the television talk show the Late Show with David Letterman (since 1993) |
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