Lissy Lovett

Looking For A New Female Middle For ‘Lifted’

This position is from 2020 and now closed. We are looking for a middle acrobalance performer to join us for our next outdoor tour of ‘Lifted’, a production created and first toured in 2019. Please help us spread the word far and wide! ABOUT ‘LIFTED’: Lifted is a collection of funny, poetic and surprising moments, which explore in…
Mimbre Youth Online Autumn Term

Acrobatics and street dance classes continuing our autumn term online As you might have gathered, we sadly cannot go ahead with our in-person classes at the moment. So we are switching to online again, running five online workshops on Tuesdays from 10th November – 8th December. We are excited to slightly spice up the concept…
A new term of in-person Youth Programme classes

UPDATE 1st November 2020: We are sad to have to come with these news, but after the government’s announcement of stricter measures from Thursday 5th November, we have to cancel the in-person classes that we had planned at Northwold Community Hall.We are looking at continuing our online classes, and hopefully we will be able to…
Lina Johansson interviewed in CS LAB#5: Leadership in Times of Crisis

Leadership in Times of Crisis is Circostrada Network‘s & Xtrax‘s publication of their findings from their webinar in June 2020, CS Lab#5. In it, Mimbre’s Joint Artistic Director, Lina Johansson, is interviewed about Mimbre and its place in the sector: “Most of Mimbre’s shows are all women […] to balance the huge numbers of all-male…
To Untouch: Mimbre at GDIF 2020

We have a new show, a live outdoor one, to share with you! We will be at Greenwich+Docklands International Festival on Saturday, 12th September. To Untouch is a new socially distanced show has been created in direct opposition to Mimbre’s usual ways of working; instead of exploring what happens when one body is carried by…
Watch Mimbre’s In the Park, a digital performance

In the Park is socially distanced show has been created specifically for the Thames Barrier Park as part of Newham Council’s digital festival: Newham Unlocked. Three acrobats play, interact and move around its beautiful landscaped features and explore what happens when they can’t touch, reinterpreting how their bodies relate to each other from a distance.…
Create your own choreography inspired by The Sofa Dance!

We are very pleased to announce that Mimbre’s The Sofa Dance has now been released on iPlayer and Youtube! We would now love to see people create their own interpretations and versions of their #MySofaDance! See below to get some inspiration and help in how to do yours. When the world is no longer your…
The Sofa Dance Performer Biographies

The Sofa Dance: When the world is no longer your stage… 30 acrobats physicalise the shared exhaustion, frustration and complications of living within drastically limited space, creating absurdity and beauty while stuck on their sofas. A short film that gives a snapshot of the extraordinary spring of 2020 and how differently we all dealt with…
Hackney Flipped

A creative summer project (at safe distances) Mimbre’s young participants, Marnie and Raya, with input from other Mimbre Youths, are very excited to have secured funding for a series of online creative workshops across the summer. The funding from Young Hackney gives participants a chance to learn a variety of different skills and to create their own choreographies. There…
The Freelance Task Force

Mimbre is very happy to add our signature to the below open letter (scroll down for alternative formats) along with more than 100 of our sister organisations in the arts sector. One of the commitments we’ve signed up to is paying a freelancer to be part of a Freelance Task Force. We are extremely happy…