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BUMP | New short film by Mimbre and Arthur Le FOL

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 bodies, and dispels the myths that movement in pregnancy is…
Lifted | Rosy Roberts

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 both Wonderous Strange and one of the 18 acrobats for…
Interview with Arthur Bernard Bazin

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, we are dancing. Some call it dancing, some…
Interview with Gary Clarke

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 project to project, depending on the people that…
Interview with Yi-Chun Liu

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 Tom. We caught up with her to ask her some…
Mimbre Perform at Dior Paris Fashion Show

Mimbre was invited by Maria Grazia Chiuri, Creative Director of the Dior women’s collections, to participate in the spring-summer 2019 haute couture show at Paris Fashion Week. 18 female acrobats took to the runway for the specially commissioned and choreographed performance for Christian Dior’s Spring Summer 2019 (SS19) show at the Musée Rodin. Maria Grazia Chiuri…
Cast Announcement: Fierce Sisters

We are thrilled to announce the cast for Fierce Sisters, coming to Shakespeare’s New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon from 11th-15th December. Performance devised by company. Writing by Madi Maxwell-Libby, Reece Lyons, Arielle Lauzon and William Shakespeare. Directed by Lina Johansson. Katherine – Taming of the Shrew Arielle Lauzon: From the age of six, Arielle knew that she…
Roll up, Roll up!

Roll up, Roll up! The circus is coming to town and you’re invited to meet the characters from Mimbre’ new show The Exploded Circus. The show opens into the moment where an explosion has been frozen in time, the remnants of a big top caught mid-air – with everything from circus ring, sequins and fairground…
Alice Allart / Madame Ringmaster

Alice Allart As promised, we met up with our performers to find out more about The Exploded Circus. We asked them a few questions about their characters (possibly getting in their way), hoping to find more out about the back story for the show. We’ll introduce a new performer/character everyday starting with the amazing Alice Allart.…
Movement and Pregnancy

A month ago acrobat and Mimbre founder, Silvia Fratelli put a call out for pregnant performers (acrobats, aerialists, jugglers, dancers, movers) who were interested in taking part in a small video project about the pregnant body in motion. The plan was to create a series of short clips to celebrate the beauty and realities of…