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Inclusive Acrobalance Training Residency

We’re very happy to share some footage from our Inclusive Acrobalance Training Residency at 101 Outdoor Arts Creation Space in Newbury from last week. It was part of the development of a new show Look Mum, No Hands! in collaboration with Daryl Beeton Productions and The Spark Arts for Children. The training was co-facilitated by ParaCheer International coach Rick Rodgers.…
Garsington Opera’s ‘creativity through constraint’

We recently shared how we approached our rehearsals and performances. Now, here is another different example of a Covid-19 protocol in rehearsals, from Garsington Opera. Mimbre’s Artistic Director, Lina Johansson, has been in rehearsals (virtual and physical) choreographing for their production Eugene Onegin since early this year. Garsington Opera’s production Eugene Onegin premiered last night!…
#BluePrint2021 funding for Look Mum No Hands

We are grateful to receive funding from WIthout Walls to be able to continue working on Look Mum No Hands with Daryl Beeton Productions as part of the #Blueprint2021. With this support, Daryl Beeton Productions and Mimbre are entering a second period of R&D for the production. We truly are in great company, meet all…
Mimbre is teaching Sofa Acrobatics at the Dublin Dance Festival

Turn slouching on your sofa into an art form with the creators of The Sofa Dance. Join Mimbre’s acrobats for a family movement session, using each other for support and your sofa as a crashmat to explore some fun movement and adventurous shapes! Session details: When: Sun 30 May at 11am & 2pmWhere: Live Zoom eventDuration:…
Mimbre is teaching Sofa Acrobatics at The Spark Festival

Learn step by step how to do your own Sofa Dance with Mimbre acrobats at the Spark festival! We are excited to participate in The Spark Festival organised by The Spark Arts for Children. Our acrobats will hold movement sessions for the whole family, using each other for support and your sofa as a crashmat!…
Mimbre Van and The Hackney Foodbank

When we realised that the Mimbre van couldn’t go on tour this year we decided to put it to use locally and Mimbre’s AD Lina Johansson set up a network with her local mutual aid group to collect donations for The Hackney Foodbank .Between April and December we have transported 3113.5 kg of food, approximately…
A look back at this year

What are the right words to use for 2020? We don’t even know where to start. While it’s been a hard year for everyone, our hearts especially go out to the artists and creatives in the live performance world who have been hit hard, as well as all the families we work with in Hackney.While…
Our Approach To: Making Short Films In-House

In this instalment of Our Approach To articles, we invited Frankie-Rose Taylor, Mimbre’s former Marketing and Communications Officer, to share with us her experience of creating in-house short films as part of a project supported by The Space. If there is one element of the complexities of social media algorithms that communications officers across the…
Mimbre Youth Online Autumn Term

Acrobatics and street dance classes continuing our autumn term online As you might have gathered, we sadly cannot go ahead with our in-person classes at the moment. So we are switching to online again, running five online workshops on Tuesdays from 10th November – 8th December. We are excited to slightly spice up the concept…
A new term of in-person Youth Programme classes

UPDATE 1st November 2020: We are sad to have to come with these news, but after the government’s announcement of stricter measures from Thursday 5th November, we have to cancel the in-person classes that we had planned at Northwold Community Hall.We are looking at continuing our online classes, and hopefully we will be able to…