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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
Thank You Note from the Hackney Food Bank, which collected 1105.8 kg of food (2633 meals) for Distribution Centres during the Christmas season only. When we realised that the Mimbre van couldn't go on tour this year we decided to put it to use locally and...
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...
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...