"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...
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...
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...
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...
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...