Ginner-Mawer – Page 3 – Irene Mawer – Mime, Movement, and Voice

Writer’s Block

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

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

October 21, 2025 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime

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

October 16, 2025 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime

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

October 7, 2025 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime

Engage, Enthuse, Encourage.

Having reached a hiatus with writing my books, suffering from a defecit of concentration and focus, I decided to work on a different aspect of publication. I decided to make a slogan. After all, why work when you can procrastinate? So here it is, my slogan, or tag line, or

September 30, 2025 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime / voice

Is Poetry an Art Form?

In one of her recent podcasts, author Joanna Penn ruminated on how we encourage or discourage children from writing. https://pca.st/episode/ece3776a-71e7-42ee-b1f4-21cdcf3cb84b During her conversation with Coleen M. Story, Joanna commented that our creative selves are a bit like children, and we need to have our self-confidence boosted every now and again.

September 9, 2025 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime / voice

Index Cards

The photo that I have included with this blog post shows some of the note cards that I have used in my research. When I first started (a good six years ago, now!), I had no idea where the research would take me. Plus I was, and remain, a bit

July 8, 2025 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime

Irene Mawer at the V&A

If you are planning a visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, you could check out if they are allowing access to a piece of theatrical history: a plaque dedicated to Irene Mawer. In her hey-day, Miss Mawer was hailed as “The Great English Exponent of the art

July 1, 2025 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime

Sunderers

I was looking for a poem called The Sundurers by D H Lawrence. However, I don’t think it exists. I have found a painting called The Sunderers, with a reference from a poem called Walk Warily, by D H Lawrence, which is presumably the connection. The full-page illustration accompanies the

June 24, 2025 Biography

Lohengrin

Miss Mawer owned at least four pieces of jewellery that meant something special to her. Three of them were necklaces, and one that was worn regularly by Miss Mawer depicted a cloaked man on a swan. This was Lohengrin, a character from old German literature in the vein of King

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