art of mime – Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement

Balancing Act (Video)

While idly browsing through Facebook, I came upon a video which made my heart sing. So I send out a big thank you to an Italian community organisation called Balancing Act for making this video, and for including Irene Mawer. I began watching the video, totally unknowing what would be

March 29, 2022 Biography / Blog / Mime

Institute of Mime. overview 1936

Dancing Times, December 1936 THE INSTITUTE OF MIME This newspaper article gives a run-down of what had been happening within the Institute of Mime during the preceding year (1935-36). Described as making steady progress, the Institute had some twenty lectures/demonstrations/schools and the Women’s Institute had shown a lot

April 28, 2021 Biography / Blog / Mime

A book review from 1932 for The Art of Mime

Today’s blog post is a copy of an article printed in an old newspaper. The article is taken from a newspaper cutting, found on the website of the British newspaper Archive (britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) The writer of the article is not named and makes the unfortunate assertion, right at the start, that