Lisa the tall one has friends in high places

Lisa Corriveau says she's not sure why she decided to take up stilting
back in the summer of 2003 – but, ever since she got the hang of it,
she's been up and running (carefully) as Jacqueline Frost, The Green
Fairy, The Monkey King, Skull Wraith, Ms. Black, The Sea Princess,
Fishnet, and Disco Lives! (photo at right by Aki Mimoto)

“I
think maybe seeing a stilter at the Parade of the Lost Souls a year or
two before inspired me. She was wearing green sequinned pants and a
curly-horned headpiece - pretty much naked from the waist up, except
for purple body paint and green pasties... in late October!” she says.

Lisa signed up for Public Dreams Society
stilting class, where students built stilts and spent about six weeks
learning to walk on them. She envisioned her first costume and made it
in about two weeks, in time for her debut performance at Illuminares.

“I
like most aspects of the stilting biz: the athleticism of it, the
theatricality, the costume design and production. I love the weird
little community of performers that I've become a part of: circus
people, actors, dancers, fire performers, musicians and lots of people
who are hard to define,” she says. “The energy I get at a big event
with other stilters and 'ground performers' - as we snobby tall ones
call them - live music and a huge audience of people is really
intoxicating.”

* continued at Susan's Super Citizen showcase - http://supercitizenshowcase.blogspot.com/