WI – Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement

seven variations of the same prototype book cover for the biography

Which Title Do You Prefer?

Here are two possibilities for the title and sub-title of Miss Mawer’s biography. What do you think? (Please ignore the photo, it is only a prototype mock-up of the cover.) IRENE MAWER: The Biography. A Female Experience of Mime, Movement and Voice in the 20th Century. Or

October 28, 2025 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime / voice / WI / Women's Institute

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

August 17, 2021 Biography / Blog / Mime / WI / Women's Institute

Darlington School of Mime. 1935

Darlington School of Mime Northern Echo, Darlington 6 March 1935 W.I. SCHOOL OF MIME Darlington is a town in the gritty, working class, north east of England, very close to Durham. This newspaper clipping covers a mime workshop in York, 54 miles away and is a prime example showing how