Synopsis
The work comprises the amalgamation
of three solos created over a period of 5 years, following the journey
of the Yeti, a small curious woman with heavy feet on an exploration through
time and space.
Each solo was created in response to the walls and architecture of a particular performance space, with physical explorations through these varied environments determining the transition of moods and movement vocabulary.
Dressed in a long garment and fluffy bowed slippers, the Yeti stomps ferociously around the perimeter of the space in a ritual dance, marking out her territory.
With every stomp of her small fury slippered feet, the sweet yeti stamps her way around new spaces leaving imprints of past places.
Credits
Creator/performer - Lisa O'Neill
Costume - Sandra Anderson
Lighting Design - David Lee, Lisa O’Neill
Music - Nirvana, David Motion, Sally Potter, Trent Arkley-Smith, Kerryn Joyce,
Teardrop Explodes
Video Documentation - David Granato
Video Editor - Elizabeth Greitz
Performance History
Three Frank Women, Metro Arts, Brisbane 2000
New Moves Festival, Glasgow, Scotland 2000
Queensland Art Gallery 2000
Brisbane City Gallery 2000
‘'There’s more than a dash of inspired grotesquerie in Lisa O’Neill’s solo but there is also a rare poetic delicacy which emerges as she sheds her layers of red oriental garb. The charismatic O'Neill shades in a host of moods through gesture and gaze - astounding, brilliant, utterly captivating.’ The Herald, Scotland 2000
‘She has a searing presence; She is funny, confrontational, and erotic. She left her audience cheering more.’ The Observer, London 2000
‘Lisa O’Neill possesses a curious china doll quality in her Sweet yeti. Deadpan and intense, O’Neill showed a highly individual movement style, arms as silky as her dress, striding into the powerful light beams with a rubbery nonchalance’ The Scotsman, Scotland 2000
