This article was written by Mimbre joint Artistic Directors Lina Johansson and Silvia Fratelli for Carry On Touring and was published there on 8th August, 2021. The day of the Brexit result in 2016, coincided with the London premiere of Mimbre’s new show If I Could...
"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...
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...
Creative challenge time! We invite you to join us and explore these times through our hashtag #acrobatstuckathome. Acrobats on the picture: (clockwise from top left): Rebecca Solomon, Rebecca Rennison, one of our brilliant Youth Programme participants Lev, Rebecka Nord, Karin Melin and Sophie Northmore While we realise...
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 Autumn term will resume from 17th September – 3rd December...
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...