ginner – Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement

the photo is taken inside a camper van and shows a brown dog on the bed. there is a sheaf of paper in front of him, there is typewriting on the paper. it looks as if the dog is reading the manuscript of a book.

Manuscript Update

This is a photo of my Irene Mawer biography manuscript – being checked for errors by Sidney. We are in Spain in our camper van and I had the whole manuscript printed out at a local printer shop as I don’t have a printer in the van. It was well

November 25, 2025 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime / voice

It Will Be Next Year

Recently, I was lucky enough to attend the Ruby Ginner Awards 2025, held by the Classical Greek Dance Association. While I was there, I mentioned that next year, 2026, will be the 110th anniversary of the founding of the Ginner-Mawer School. I was rather deflated when, on being asked

November 18, 2025 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime / voice

Copyright Issues!

My book about Irene Mawer has been written for some time. The book is finished. So why isn’t it published? The reason is complicatedly simple – copyright. I always knew that I would need to deal with copyright, but I had innocently assumed it would be straight forward, and mainly

November 11, 2025 Biography / Blog / ginner-mawer / Mime / voice

Writer’s Block

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