Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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Connecting Rose Bruford and Irene Mawer In this blog post, I will explain how Rose Bruford and Irene Mawer are strongly connected through the art of mime. Bruford was a pupil of Mawer, and was strongly influenced by her, but was also open to other styles of mime, such as
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Dancing Times London April 1935 THE INSTITUTE OF MIME The reviewer who wrote this newspaper article enjoyed the mime performance very much and has written about it in a style different to those seen in other papers. Held at the Rudolf Steiner Hall, in London, on 2 March 1935, participants
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Michel Saint-Denis Today’s blog post information came not from a book, but rather from a podcast, which is a relaxing-on-the-eyes way to learn the history of the British drama school, and in particular the history of actor training in British drama schools. Robert Price’s podcast, episode 16 of Season One,
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Dancing Times London March 1935 The attached photograph shows one of Irene Mawer’s newspaper cuttings, which she kept in a scrapbook specially purchased for that purpose. The news clippings range from 1933 – 1940 and show the process of evolution of the Institute of Mime, which Miss Mawer founded in
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The Scotsman Edinburgh 4 March 1935 Title of Newspaper Article: Performance of Mimes In this review of it’s London performance, this show organised by Irene Mawer’s Institute of Mime received excellent coverage with the standard of the work being described as ‘high’. In this review, we learn more about the
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