Last week we hosted a family and friends day with our Milton Gardens youth groups. All the children, including the little ones, showed their pals how to warm up, stretch, do flawless cart wheels, and then some serious acrobalance moves! We were really impressed with their...
Mimbre's new performance Bench, coming to Greenwich and Docklands International Festival in London as part of Greenwich Fair this weekend the 21-22 June and Tuesday the 24th of June at Dancing City. Here Lina Johansson – joint Artistic Director for Mimbre, share a little window into the...
Last year our Mimbre Youth Company took part in RIOT OFFspring, at London’s celebrated dance space Sadler’s Wells. This unique intergenerational collaboration based on Stravinsky’s ‘The rite of Spring’, was an amazing and exciting opportunity for our young people and has marked them for life! This...
The Bench show is now officially on tour after a sun blessed outdoors premier in Bath this weekend! I went with the performers for this first gig, as I know what a difference it makes when you bring a show outdoors - you just never quite...
Hi All, We've just come back from an amazing week of research and development at 101 and we wanted to share some of the amazing images and footage with you. We were exploring the possibilities of physical performance and digital interactive technologies with three acrobats and...
We are unfortunately still having issues uploading pictures to our website - so for all of you who couldn't make it to the premiere of our new show at Laban and Greenwich Dance Agency's festival "Crossing the Creek", have a look at the short video clip below!...
We're looking for a part-time Administrator to join our team, assisting in the producing and touring of innovative, outdoor circus-theatre across the UK and Europe. The role is for 2 days a week and based in our office in Dalston. The successful candidate will: Have a demonstrable interest...
Hi all, we're very pleased to announce some more details about our première of Bench next week. The show will be part of the Crossing The Creek family dance weekend at Greenwich Dance and Laban on 11th and 12th April. This event will be indoors and...
As our regular readers will know we're currently developing a new performance for summer 2015. We are now recruiting for a core member of the creative team - the Scenographer/Visual Content Producer. The show, “Time”, will be a highly visual production, using digital projection techniques,...
[gallery ids="5050,5047,5055,5056,5057,5060,5061,5062,5063,5064,5066,5068"] Director Lina Johansson reflects from the rehearsals of Bench: The idea for Bench started like a small simple frame for a show - a set made as a park bench - allowing us to plant the show in the reality of where it is performed,...