Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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In 1930, Miss Mawer went to Athens! About 40 people, all connected with the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama, went with her. The school gave performances at two theatres, one of which was (and still is) an open-air theatre on the Acropolis, next to the Parthenon. My husband, Andy,
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In a few days time, I will visit the grave of Robert Jacomb Norris Dale, Irene Mawer’s first husband. Robert was killed in action very close to the end of World War One. He died in Italy and is buried near Venice. I don’t know if Irene ever visited, perhaps
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Milton Keynes, 3 November 2024 I was extremely pleased and honoured to be invited to the Ruby Ginner Awards. I had never been before and it was an extremely interesting day. The event is held by the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD) Classical Greek Faculty. The ISTD is
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Yorkshire Weekly Herald, 8 March 1935 The National Federation of Women’s Institutes (more regularly known as the WI) organised a one-day School of Mime in York. The reviewer held that the day was a success and that the WI were justified to have gone ahead with the event. “The Yorkshire
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By the time this article was published in 1933, Classical Greek Dance (which was known as Revived Greek Dance) would be approximately 20 years old – with many of the early years being spent in developing and improving the technique. The opening comment demonstrates that it was still fairly uncommon
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