In 2024, Mimbre and Daryl & Co. created ‘Look Mum, Let’s Talk About Disability’, a series of six short films tackling some of the most common (and often unspoken) questions about disability—questions we heard time and time again while touring ‘Look Mum, No Hands!’. The project...
Our Joint Artistic Director, Lina Johansson, was recently movement director for this gorgeous film, The Glass Hermit, from the incredible Shona Heath. The physical world that Shona, Lina, Mimbre performer Ruby Gaskill, Resolution Rigging and Shona Heath's wider team created was then enhanced by...
We are thrilled to write about Mimbre's involvement in the latest season of the beloved CBBC series, Malory Towers. Season 5 features lots of Mimbre performers bringing the circus to the small screen. It was such a pleasure to work with producer King Bert's team, who were...
In the Park is socially distanced show has been created specifically for the Thames Barrier Park as part of Newham Council's digital festival: Newham Unlocked. Three acrobats play, interact and move around its beautiful landscaped features and explore what happens when they can’t touch, reinterpreting...
The Sofa Dance: When the world is no longer your stage...
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...
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...
Roll up Roll up! The circus is coming to town and you're invited to meet the characters from The Exploded Circus. As we eagerly prepare the show, we will be introducing our multi-skilled and charming cast through the lens of their characters. By the time you hear...
Mimbre is a female-led acrobatic theatre company. We make contemporary circus shows that fuse narrative with breathtaking movement. We are currently working on our new production: The Exploded Circus, an all-female contemporary circus production that uses the scene of a devastated circus and its performers as...
We are looking for two highly talented female circus performers to join us in our next production The Exploded Circus - an all-female contemporary circus production with a highly visual narrative that uses the scene of a devastated circus and its performers as an allegory to...