On Friday 2nd August, ten of the young people from Mimbre's youth programme performed their new production Skyline in Aldgate Square as part of the City of London's Fantastic Feats festival. Using human pyramids, street dance and movements that mirror London’s skyline and symbolise the rise...
Mimbre have once again teamed up with filmaker Arthur Le FOL to create our latest short film. BUMP challenges and deconstructs social expectations around people’s bodies during pregnancy. Joint artistic director Silvia wanted to show how pregnancy and movement can happily coexist. BUMP celebrates pregnant people’s...
With our rehearsals for new production Lifted drawing to a close, we caught up with performer and Mimbre regular Rosy Roberts to chat about the show. First working with us on If I could I would and going on to be part of the cast for...
This week has been the last of our three week-long choreographic laboratories, and our third and final guest choreographer is Arthur Bernard Bazin from HURyCAN. We caught up with him in the rehearsal room for a chat. How would you describe your practice? We make a lot of movement,...
Last week, our Lifted cast had their second laboratory with a guest choreographer, this time the brilliant Gary Clarke. We caught up with him for a chat about what acrobats can learn from contemporary dance. How would you describe your practice? I think my practice changes from...
For our new production Lifted, we are working with three guest choreographers to mix our trademark acrobalance movement and techniques with new styles. This week was our first of these, and we have been having a great time experimenting with Countertechnique with Yi-Chun Liu from Peeping...
Mimbre was invited by Maria Grazia Chiuri, Creative Director of the Dior women's collections, to participate in the spring-summer 2019 haute couture show at Paris Fashion Week. 18 female acrobats took to the runway for the specially commissioned and choreographed performance for Christian Dior’s Spring Summer...
Street Dance & Acrobatics Classes Mimbre offers classes for young people in Hackney to learn acrobatics and street dance in a safe, fun and supportive environment with professional artists. Tuesdays Milton Gardens Community Centre Shakspeare Walk, Stoke Newington, London N16 8TL The Spring term will resume from 15th January – 2nd April (with...
With Fierce Sisters heading to New Place in just a weeks time, we caught up with Arielle Lauzon, fresh off tour with The Exploded Circus, for a quick chat about her experiences playing one of Shakespeare's most fierce women. Q. What was your first experience of...
We are thrilled to announce the cast for Fierce Sisters, coming to Shakespeare's New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon from 11th-15th December. Performance devised by company. Writing by Madi Maxwell-Libby, Reece Lyons, Arielle Lauzon and William Shakespeare. Directed by Lina Johansson. Katherine – Taming of the Shrew Arielle Lauzon: From the...