Ruby Ginner

Together with Irene Mawer, co-founded the Ginner-Mawer School of Dance and Drama.
Married Alexander Kidd DYER, 1908, Wandsworth.
MBE
Created the Revived Greek Dance/Greek Dance Association

47 year friendship with Irene Mawer (1893–1962), they met each other at Elsie Fogerty’s Central School, when it was based at the Royal Albert Hall. Ruby Ginner was teaching her own method of Classical Greek Dance and Irene Mawer went to her for dance lessons. Ruby Ginner invited Irene Mawer to play the role of Harlequin in a mime play (circa 1912–16). Irene Mawer was a born mime and the pair founded their own school.

Past productions

Greek Chorus, Medea, Frank Benson 1919 – 1920, Holborn Empire, London.
The Blue Bird 1911 – 1912, Prince’s Theatre, Bristol.

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