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Connecting Rose Bruford and Irene Mawer In this blog post, I will explain how Rose Bruford and Irene Mawer are strongly connected through the art of mime. Bruford was a pupil of Mawer, and was strongly influenced by her, but was also open to other styles of mime, such as
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A cabaret is a performance given (usually in a nightclub) while the audience sit at tables where they can eat a meal or have a drink. The entertainment to celebrate the 21st Birthday of the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama is referred to as having been a cabaret. The
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This blog post is part of a report in The Link, describing the party given to celebrate the 21st birthday of the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama. It refers to Phillip Richardson (1875-1963) who had an important part to play during the evening. It is interesting to note that
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In 1937 the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama celebrated its 21st birthday. By this time Miss Mawer had been married, widowed, married again, lived through a World War, worked with Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson in The Trojan Women, and also in Medea, published The Dance of Words, visited
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Cigarette, anyone? It came as a huge shock to me to find out that Irene Mawer probably smoked cigarettes. In our modern age, it is almost incomprehensible that an athlete (which a dancer surely is) would smoke, but of course, attitudes (and knowledge) were completely different in those
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