Wendy Griffin
Associate Professor
Women's Studies
Performance
Art
A way of magic that creates a bridge of light, sound and thought between
what was, what is and what could be.........
A performance and installation
work in 6 parts. Done for Women in Action, the Women's Conference
held at CSULB. March 28-30, 1996.
Lipushau
is a women's frame drum performance
group that uses rhythm, movement, song, and spoken word to evoke archetypes
that link the mythic past and the mythic present. It draws on a tradition
of women's drumming that reaches back almost 5000 years, when the
sacred and the secular were one and, it is suggested, women
were believed to be the gateway to the divine.
The group was first brought together by Professor Griffin as a part of
the Lunacies of Light project at CSULB in the Spring of 1996.
The reception was so enthusiastic that the women decided to continue working
and performing together, and took the name of Lipushau, High Priestess
in the Temple of the Moon in ancient Ur, and the oldest named drummer
in all of history.
Members include Pat Baird, Cheryl Caddick, Marilyn Gottschall, Wendy Griffin,
and Berit Jordahl. They are all educators and feminists.
last updated: February 18, 1998
by Professor Wendy Griffin