Professional Development

Tuk week 2026

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 group of associated acrobats. He created space for everyone to…
Sports Psychology for Circus Artists, presented and facilitated by Jess Abouzeid

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 a specific topic, such as motivation, dealing with change,…
Our approach to: Working with high physicality outdoors

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 more widely. Here Lina outlines some of the challenges…
We’ve been interviewed on 101 Outdoor Arts’ Podcast

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 Joint Artistic Directors Lina Johansson and Silvia Fratelli talk…
Mimbre’s Coronavirus Update

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 we find ourselves in we’ve been doing our best…
Our Approach To: Working Across Different Scales

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. Mimbre have been touring three-person shows outdoors since 2000. We’ve also worked on…
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…
Now booking Mimbre masterclass

Masterclass: High physicality in a theatrical setting Who it’s for Circus performers, physical theatre performers, dancers and actors interested in mixing physicality, theatre and narrative. What to expect Bodies flying, falling, stacking up, a person carrying the weight of another, a person pushing someone else over – all images bursting with meaning. As soon as two people…