Commissions
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To Untouch
To Untouch is a live performance originally created specifically for Greenwich+Docklands Festival September 2020. It explores new and different ways of keeping physical connections and complicity between each other, when the impulse of direct physical touch has to be restrained. This show has been created in direct opposition to Mimbre’s usual ways of working; instead of…
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The Sofa Dance
The Sofa Dance is a short film by filmmaker Arthur Le FOL and Mimbre as part of BBC Arts’ Filmed in Lockdown. When the world is no longer your stage… 30 acrobats physicalise the shared exhaustion, frustration and complications of living within drastically limited space, creating absurdity and beauty while stuck on their sofas. A short film that…
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Dior Dream Parade
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 2019 (SS19) show at the Musée Rodin. Maria Grazia Chiuri…
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Fierce Sisters
A dazzling, immersive winter experience for Shakespeare’s New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon. For winter 2018, Mimbre were commissioned by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to shine a light on the women of Shakespeare’s plays in a visually enthralling spectacle performed in the contemporary gardens of Shakespeare’s New Place. Step into the world of Fierce Sisters, as they weave their spell with…
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Wondrous Strange
Mimbre were commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company to create an outdoor performance celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s legacy. The show premiered at Stratford-Upon-Avon on 23rd April 2016 and was invited back for the Birthday celebrations in April 2017. It was also performed at FETA festival in Gdansk in Poland in July 2017. It is available for further touring.…
