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To Untouch: Mimbre at GDIF 2020

We have a new show, a live outdoor one, to share with you! We will be at Greenwich+Docklands International Festival on Saturday, 12th September. To Untouch is a new socially distanced show has been created in direct opposition to Mimbre’s usual ways of working; instead of exploring what happens when one body is carried by…
Create your own choreography inspired by The Sofa Dance!

We are very pleased to announce that Mimbre’s The Sofa Dance has now been released on iPlayer and Youtube! We would now love to see people create their own interpretations and versions of their #MySofaDance! See below to get some inspiration and help in how to do yours. When the world is no longer your…
Acrobat Stuck At Home

Creative challenge time! We invite you to join us and explore these times through our hashtag #acrobatstuckathome. While we realise that this is minor in the grand scheme of things, as acrobatic performers it’s a real issue to not be able to train together. By the time the Stay At Home Directive came into practice,…
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…
Physical and Creative Kids’ Activities

At Mimbre, we’ve been busy putting together ideas for you to keep physically and creatively active during this time of the Coronavirus and in this post, we will try to collate activities that you can set the kids up to do on their own while you work, shop, tidy or look after other family members.…
Resources for Artists and Creatives

We realise there is so much noise and information online right now about the Coronavirus so we’ve been trying to compile some information and resources in one place. We will keep updating this as we see new opportunities or resources (adding new additions to the top of each list), so check back in as the…
Resources on Getting Involved in Your Community

We realise there is so much noise and information online right now about the Coronavirus. At Mimbre, we’ve been busy compiling and researching information, brainstorming ways you can be involved, what you can do, how we can keep vulnerable groups in mind…These resources are regularly updated, so check back in. We last updated this post…
Our Approach To: Touring with Children

Mimbre turned 21 recently, so in the coming months we thought we’d share a few thoughts about some of the things we’ve learned across the years. To begin, here’s our Joint Artistic Director Silvia Fratelli (mother of Dylan and Frida), writing about how Mimbre approaches touring with children: In this post I’ll be talking about…
Help support Mimbre’s Youth Programme

Mimbre provide fun acrobatics and street dance classes to young people in Hackney, celebrating creativity, physicality and their community. This Holiday Season, we need your help to keep the programme available to everyone, regardless of income.
Arielle Lauzon on Shakespeare

With Fierce Sisters heading to New Place in just a weeks time, we caught up with Arielle Lauzon, fresh off tour with The Exploded Circus, for a quick chat about her experiences playing one of Shakespeare’s most fierce women. Q. What was your first experience of Shakespeare? A. My first accurate experience of Shakespeare was only…