Ginner-Mawer on TV

It would have been a huge event for anyone to appear on the television in 1936. The Ginner-Mawer School would have, without a doubt, been thrilled to have appaeared on the BBC.

You may wonder why I have included a performance of Classical Greek Dance in an article about Irene Mawer. The reason is that in the original Ginner method, the mime side was intrinsic to the whole. Greek Dance couldn’t be performed to its best levels unless the dancers were also proficient in the mime that was taught by Irene Mawer. So while Miss Ginner shone in the spotlight, the wind under her wings included steady support from Irene Mawer.

Younger readers today may be confused as to why the television listing appears in the Radio Times – this is because in the far off days when television was born, there was only one channel – the BBC! They were already producing a magazine with all of their radio listings, and the few TV programmes that were broadcast were incorporated into that booklet.

Everything was live, so, very sadly, we can’t see a recording of the dances. However, the photograph in the programme is spectacular and shows eleven dancers in various poses, making one superb grouping. This is a typical Ginner-Mawer approach.

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