Description | On 14 March 1936 500 performers, including students from the Ginner-Mawer School, appeared in a Festival of Greek Dance at the Royal Albert Hall. The two performances were sold out.
Pieces performed at the Festival were: Overture, Lyric Dance, Lyric Dance for Children, Athletic Dance, A Flower Festival, Pyrrhic Dance, "In Honour of the Fallen", "In Praise of Dionysus" and Finale. The whole Festival was produced by Ruby Ginner with Irene Mawer as Assistant Director. This programme also contains a page from The Link with an article titled The Forthcoming Festival of Greek Dance by Helena Burgess, and a list of the adult and child performers in the Festival. |