Category: Biography
A Room of One’s Own?
How did Miss Mawer write? I mean, physically? Where did she write, and what did she use? In 1929 Virginia Woolf said that for a woman to write, she needed her own money and her own room. I think she was talking about fiction, but in this blog post, I
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Music in Ancient Greece
I wonder if any of the Ginner-Mawer Dancers mimed playing the musical instruments used in ancient Greece? The students would mime the ancient weapons used by Greek warriors, so I would expect that they also mimed the playing of musical instruments. Two famous stringed instruments of ancient Greece are the
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Wreaths in Ancient Greece
In Ancient Greece, both the laurel and the olive trees provided symbolic branches and wreaths. Wreaths for specific celebrations could also be made of other plants and trees (eg, ivy or pine). Even to this day, the olive branch symbolises peace. If we want to repair a bad relationship with
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Designing a Mime Course… Or Not!
Well! As ever, when I ask Ai about mime and Miss Mawer, it gets some of it right, but some of it frighteningly wrong. While procrastinating (not finishing my books), I asked Ai to design a mime course. At first, I gave it free reign, and afterwards, I told it
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