We recently spent a week training with Tuk Frederiksen, an experienced acrobat and coach (from Cie XY) who specialises in working with group collectives. Tuk supported the core team in refining and developing their trio technique, while also leading three afternoon sessions with Mimbre’s wider...
Mimbre Artistic Director, Silvia Fratelli, will be teaching a workshop at London's Tripspace on Saturday 7th February 2026. Book now The workshop will focus on a mix of movement, acrobatics, partner techniques and creative approaches in how these skills can be used in different choreographic ways. The...
Mimbre is pleased to share a free online series of talks: Sports Psychology for Circus Artists, presented and facilitated by Jess Abouzeid, They will be held 21st, 22nd, 28th and 30th September 10-11.30 am on Zoom. Each session will start with a talk by Jess on...
Working with high physicality outdoors: challenges and solutions by Lina Johansson, Mimbre acrobats. Since everyone is currently talking about outdoor theatre, we thought it worth sharing Lina Johansson’s talk at the recent online European Federation for Education and Training in Street Arts online conference in Slovenia...
We were invited by our friends over at 101 Outdoor Arts, Corn Exchange's Newbury creation space, to appear on their Covid-19 Conversations podcast. This is a series about the impact of Covid-19 on Outdoor Artists in the UK with Paschale Straiton. Tune in to hear Mimbre's...
From all of us at Mimbre, we hope you are keeping well! In these fast-changing times we thought we’d email with a quick update about what we’ve been doing in the last couple of weeks, and our plans for the immediate future. In this unusual world...
In our next blog post about Mimbre’s approach to various subjects across outdoor arts, circus and running a company, our Executive Director, Lissy Lovett, writes about working across different scales with a focus on the company’s 2018 tour of The Exploded Circus. Dior...
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...