Company News

  • Mimbre’s tour dates 2013

    Falling Up and Until Now are ready for the summer tour now – two proven and successful shows that are looking even better after re-rehearsals, with some new material and choreographies developed this year. Both productions use Mimbre’s trademark mix of acrobatics, dance and humour to create strong imagery, visual poetry and emotional content.

  • Falling Up and Until Now on tour again

    Our performers are currently in rehearsals to get two of our shows, “Falling Up” and “Until Now”, ready again to tour across the UK and Europe this summer. This is always an interesting and exciting  development process, but very different from creating a show from scratch, as our Artistic Director Lina Johansson explains: 

  • Collective Movement Festival – Feedback

    We had a wonderful time at our first Collective Movement Festival the weekend before Easter and thank everybody, especially all our young people, the volunteers and the numerous audience members who together helped make it such a great success! Also, we’d like to thank everybody for the nice feedback and supporting our aim to raise…

  • Mimbre’s Collective Movement Festival

    Mimbre would like to say a massive THANK YOU to all those who came and supported our very first Collective Movement Festival last Saturday.

  • Stage Manager for UK & European tour

    We are recruiting a Stage Manager for this year’s UK and European tour of “Falling Up” and “Until Now” – to join us for the last period of rehearsals and on tour between May and September 2013. 

  • Mimbre’s youth group at Hackney Empire

    We at mimbre are so proud of our youth group, the Step Up group, who delivered a fantastic performance last Friday at Hackney Empire as part of the Discover Young Hackney Festival! VERY WELL DONE EVERYBODY!!! Below is a sneak review of the last instructions and back-stage preparations for the performance and the dress rehearsal…

  • This was my 2012! – a year’s review by Lina Johansson mimbre joint artistic director

    Just as 2013 is kicking in proper I wanted to take the last chance to take a brief look back on all I achieved in 2012 – both with mimbre and together with other companies or artists. For me it was an exciting and busy year, lots that I learned and lots that I am…

  • Acrobatics Masterclass in January

    Last weekend (12th and 13th January) the Roundhouse (or at least its Studio Theatre) saw bodies being lifted, legs floating in the air and arm muscles being put under quite some pressure – as mimbre and our Acrobatics Masterclass participants took over the space. We worked on dynamic partner and group work involving lifts, jumps and throws as well…

  • Mimbre at GDIF 2012

    As followers of our work know, our show “Falling Up” also stopped at the Greenwich+Docklands International Festival during last summer’s tour. We really enjoyed being part of this lovely festival and would therefore like to share some beautiful impressions of the festival, the different and colourful performances and the atmosphere that took over the whole borough…

  • Falling Up, supported by Without Walls

    Our latest show Falling Up had a great tour last summer, premiering at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival and subsequently touring across the UK and Europe. We are very proud of Falling Up’s reception and all the great feedback we got along the way and thank everybody who helped make it a success – such…