In the midst of rehearsing for Just Say DA!: Direct Object, Lisa talks about her relationship with objects over the years…
I've been known to balance certain objects on my head: candles, bottles, glasses of water; I was training to balance twenty pots at one point when I was in the Philippines. You can see me hiking on the Greenbelt with a water bottle on my head.
My backpack has gone to the Philippines with me. A woman in the company I was dancing for called it “ugly” in the Filipino language at one point, as if I didn't understand. That was an awkward moment, because the woman and the other couple of people around realized that I understood what she had said; it was because it wasn't "girly" like the bags the women usually carried around for shows. Filipinos in general thought it was strange that I carried that backpack around. At this point, I've carried it to three countries and about fifteen states. It hasn't seen the stage yet and can't wait for its debut...