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Bench Video of Rehearsals

Watch this video for a peak into the rehearsal room where Bench is currently being developed!
Collation of TIME material on tumblr

We are collating all our research material and creative starting points for our new show TIME at http://mimbrecreationinspiration.tumblr.com/. Have a look at this lovely collection that also includes you inspirational contributions and keep sending us material to inspire us and the creative process of developing TIME.
Video call for submissions to our Time R&D

Send us poems, images, texts, drawings or short videos, something you’ve done before or something new – basically anything that represents your perception and notion of time to inspire the creation process of our next show TIME! It does not have to be professional at all, just be creative and have fun with it! Watch this video…
Sneak Peak before next week: Creative starting points – how would you respond?

These are the first 3 starting points we will use to create material for our show Time as we develop it next week. How would you respond? On Monday we will do a video call out with some of our visual examples, but if you are already inspired and got ideas; send us your images, videos,…
Mimbre Live on Hackney Live – February 13th, 6pm

Hackney Live, a digital broadcast platform showcasing the best of Hackney’s creative talents (led by Hackney Council and supported by Arts Council England), is returning in February with a feast of acrobatics, dance and theatre – shaped and directed by audiences via social media. And Mimbre is part of it! Are you interested in the research and…
Your inspiration, our creation!

How do you perceive time? How do you visualise it? What happens if you slow down or speed up parts of our everyday life? How else can you mess with our perception of time passing? How would you represent this in a visual medium or in words? Can you video a moment from your day that…
Do you see Time?

So we’ve got a very exciting project coming up with Hackney Live, where we’ll be exploring choreography and production design ideas for our new show Time, and we need your help! On Monday 10th February we’ll be going into the rehearsal room for our first week of development on Time, during that week we’ll be…
What we did last year

Another year has flown by and I wanted to do a quick peak back at all the exciting things we achieved in 2013. It was a year where all the different aspects of Mimbre’s work started to mix, cross and gain profile in a whole new way – our youth company took centre stage on…
Meet our new performers!

We’re in the midst of the production of our new show Bench, directed by our Artistic Director Lina Johansson. a show about the everyday dance of life, our urban landscape, and a cavalcade of characters who come and go; viewed through the eyes of a woman who observes, makes friends, confronts or ignores the people…
Mimbre Youth Classes This Spring

SPRING PROGRAMME OF CLASSES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 2014 Below are details of the classes we are running this term. Due to funding cuts we have had to reduce our programme of classes for young people, we are working hard to get more classes up and running again and have exciting opportunities to get the programme extended…