Lissy Lovett

  • Mimbre at Dalston Children’s Festival

    This Saturday, May 25th, the Dalston Children’s Festival will be launched, a new community-led festival that promotes fun and free things to do for children and young people, all over Dalston, all summer long (25th May – 31st Aug 2013). It is a celebration of the extraordinary creativity of Dalston’s community and the resourcefulness and…

  • Mimbre receives Compass Commission!

    Yesterday evening at Laurie Grove Studios in New Cross the Trinity Laban & Greenwich Dance Partnership announced the winners of their newly created Compass Commissions… and Mimbre was awarded one of the three commissions (from a total of 137 competing entries!) to develop a new production with the working title Bench. 

  • Mimbre T-Shirts

      Our T-shirt making day with Billy was a great success!  Thanks so much for all your time and effort and your designs were amazing.

  • Breaking Convention at Sadler’s Wells

    On the weekend Mimbre Youth Company (MYC) went to Breaking Conventions at Sadler’s Wells. They got to see the big stage, where they will perform later in the year and Kieran even got to try it out.  He was selected by Jonzi D to come up on stage and show off his moves in front…

  • Mimbre’s tour dates 2013

    Falling Up and Until Now are ready for the summer tour now – two proven and successful shows that are looking even better after re-rehearsals, with some new material and choreographies developed this year. Both productions use Mimbre’s trademark mix of acrobatics, dance and humour to create strong imagery, visual poetry and emotional content.

  • Falling Up and Until Now on tour again

    Our performers are currently in rehearsals to get two of our shows, “Falling Up” and “Until Now”, ready again to tour across the UK and Europe this summer. This is always an interesting and exciting  development process, but very different from creating a show from scratch, as our Artistic Director Lina Johansson explains: 

  • WE’RE BACK!!

    It was our first session back yesterday, 23rd April, and I had a lovely time with the Milton Garden Groups. Lina and Frank organised a great workshop with games and races, which was really fun. The older group even danced around the hall with their eyes closed. If you can do that then you can go…

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  • Mimbre Youth Company at Sadler’s Wells

    As followers of our blog know, our talented young acrobats from the Mimbre Youth Company have been selected to take part in RIOT OFFspring, at London’s  famous dance venue Sadler’s Wells. RIOT OFFspring is a unique collaboration between five international choreographers – Sébastien Ramirez, Ivan Blackstock (BirdGang), Simeon Qysea (BirdGang), Mafalda Deville and Pascal Merighi (Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch) – and an intergenerational cast,…