Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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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
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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
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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
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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
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