When Sam Mendes was staging The Lehman Trilogy, an early idea was to have a wire walker above the stage, a perfect precarious symbol of human aspiration. He eventually dismissed the idea as distracting. When there’s someone on a high wire, it’s hard to concentrate on anything else.
So it is that the main attraction of Corps extrêmes is the world’s most daring highliner, Nathan Paulin, the man who holds the world record for the longest highline walk, and who now opens this show by the French choreographer Rachid Ouramdane.
