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Tour Chronicles: Fries Straat Festival Holland, 30-31 May 2015

We are on our way to Fries Straat Festival in the north of Holland! We’ve never been there before, but the program and the festival seem very exciting! We’re really looking forward to all the music and circus, especially Circus Ronaldo! We were also in Holland last week at the Kunsten Op Straat Festival! We received…
Face paint & Monsters: End of term community day at Milton Gardens

One of the things I love the most about my job is organising the community days. If you’ve never been to one of ours, you’re really missing out on a big dose of instant happiness. The focus this term was to let the children come up with their own routines, learn how to channel their…
Tour Chronicles: Villarreal & Toledo, 1 – 2 May 2015

Silvia hates to fly – which workouts for her, as more often than not the whole cast (and sometimes their little ones) climb into our big old van and drive cross country to get to gigs. Earlier this May, the tour started off with a flight to Spain and taking the van was not an…
What we do is what we love – Part II

We just received really cool pictures of this weeks’ rehearsal from one of our participant’s dad! Hope you like them!
What We Do Is What We Love

If you’ve been following our blog, you know that we have been working hard making a show that will open for the amazing Circolombia on Thursday 16th April at the Roundhouse. “What we do is what we love” is created with young people from North and East London asking to forget about the materialistic obsessions…
A Room of Her Own

“There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” Virginia Woolf We are very excited to have developed a new performance and digital installation following our period of research and development last year where we explored the relationship between digital technology and acrobatics. Commissioned by the…
Looking Back at Orfeo

I wanted to throw a glance back at the amazing and intense production of Orfeo which I was part of this winter, clearly not having learnt anything from the story (if only Orfeo wouldn’t have looked back at Eurydice they would have lived happily ever after…), with some thoughts and reflections on how this ambitious…
Production Manager/Technician

A Room Of Her Own is a collaboration between Eva Auster as a projection artist and Mimbre as a circus company specialising in Acrobatics. ‘A Room of Her Own is a mesmerising, timeless digital installation animated with live acrobatic performance – where ideas and thoughts are floating through a room together with their creator. The installation…
Recruiting for MYC

We are currently offering the exciting opportunity to audition for our youth company (MYC)! For those who don’t know, MYC consists of our most focused and talented participants and we push ahead with more advanced acrobatic tricks, choreographies and regular performance opportunities! The company has performed in the past, at Sadler’s Wells, National Theatre’s Watch this Space, and…
New updates!

We know that we have been away for a long time! But so much happened! We moved offices, we went for a residency at La Breche, Lina went off to work on Orfeo (you can read the brilliant reviews here and here), Silvia is planning a symposium, we wrote a new business plan, we are moving again, devised…