Irene Mawer: Mime and Movement
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Hello to everyone who is checking in from the CGD link. Thank you for coming to see the Irene Mawer page. I had a fabulous time at the Festival Finals and it was wonderful to finally see live Classical Greek Dancing. I was entranced for the whole day. The only other time
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Irene Mawer devoted her whole life to the stage arts and all of the background to them. She believed wholeheartedly that movement and voice belonged together, and that to excel in one of them required at least a knowledge of the other. She realised that it was unlikely that someone
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From The Link, July 1934, p.6 The Link was the newsletter associated with the Association of the Teachers of the Revived Greek Dance, and the Ginner-Mawer School of Speech and Dramatic Art. Although the Institute of Mime was not mentioned on the front cover in the same way that the
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Central School in 1930s. Irene Mawer trained under Elsie Fogerty at the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1914/15/16. Mawer had done some training and had taken paid employment before enrolling at Central, so she was already 21 years of age when she started there. Fogie discovered that Mawer
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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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