Tag: Institute of Mime
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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Polishing
This is my ‘office’ at the moment (in my camper van). I have just about finished polishing the biography following editing. I still have a little bit more to finish. Annoyingly, I have two quotes which I can not find the references for. So, I have been going through ALL
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Rob Lister Medallion
Today I visited the NRCD (National Resource Centre for Dance) at the University of Guildford. I had the pleasure of taking an item for donation, tinged with the sadness of the loss of a friend. The donated item was a large, bronze ‘medallion’ which belonged to Robert Lister. I have
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The Slopes of Delphi
Miss Mawer visited Delphi in 1930, when the Ginner-Mawer School performed in Athens as part of the Second Delphic Festival. This photo shows the view from the slope of Mount Parnassus, looking out from the ruins of Delphi over the valley.
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