Lissy Lovett

Mimbre is teaching Sofa Acrobatics at the Dublin Dance Festival

Turn slouching on your sofa into an art form with the creators of The Sofa Dance. Join Mimbre’s acrobats for a family movement session, using each other for support and your sofa as a crashmat to explore some fun movement and adventurous shapes! Session details: When: Sun 30 May at 11am & 2pmWhere: Live Zoom eventDuration:…
Our approach to: Working with high physicality outdoors

Working with high physicality outdoors: challenges and solutions by Lina Johansson, Mimbre acrobats. Since everyone is currently talking about outdoor theatre, we thought it worth sharing Lina Johansson’s talk at the recent online European Federation for Education and Training in Street Arts online conference in Slovenia more widely. Here Lina outlines some of the challenges…
Mimbre Youth Street Dance and Acrobatics park sessions to resume

After a long zoom winter, we are really excited to be restarting in-person classes, held outdoors. Details Date: Tuesdays for 8 weeks between 27th April – 22nd June.Location: outdoor in Butterfield GreenTimes for the two groups:+ 4pm – 5pm: circus games, dance fitness and fun – this is more of a lighter come-back, focusing more on just…
#MySofaDance Workshop for Adults

Join us this weekend for a lighthearted #MySofaDance joint-choreo creation workshop! How to dance in your sofa without spilling the contents of your drink or how to look like you’re making an effort when actually you are just lying down tapping your fingers… Led by co-Artistic Director of Mimbre Lina Johansson and a Mimbre performer,…
Wishing you a strong International Women’s Day

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” Audre Lorde Did you know this year’s International Women’s Day campaign is #ChooseToChallenge?So let’s ask ourselves where and how and what we choose to challenge? What does that mean to us? Among many things, Mimbre has…
Mimbre is teaching Sofa Acrobatics at The Spark Festival

Learn step by step how to do your own Sofa Dance with Mimbre acrobats at the Spark festival! We are excited to participate in The Spark Festival organised by The Spark Arts for Children. Our acrobats will hold movement sessions for the whole family, using each other for support and your sofa as a crashmat!…
Mimbre Youth Classes

If you want a little change from the lockdown schedule join the Mimbre Youth Programme this January – March for a new term of online workshops in a variety of dance, acrobatics, circus and creative skills. This term gives participants a chance to learn a variety of different skills and to create their own choreographies.…
Mimbre Van and The Hackney Foodbank

When we realised that the Mimbre van couldn’t go on tour this year we decided to put it to use locally and Mimbre’s AD Lina Johansson set up a network with her local mutual aid group to collect donations for The Hackney Foodbank .Between April and December we have transported 3113.5 kg of food, approximately…
A look back at this year

What are the right words to use for 2020? We don’t even know where to start. While it’s been a hard year for everyone, our hearts especially go out to the artists and creatives in the live performance world who have been hit hard, as well as all the families we work with in Hackney.While…
Our Approach To: Making Short Films In-House

In this instalment of Our Approach To articles, we invited Frankie-Rose Taylor, Mimbre’s former Marketing and Communications Officer, to share with us her experience of creating in-house short films as part of a project supported by The Space. If there is one element of the complexities of social media algorithms that communications officers across the…