Past shows
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Look Mum, No Hands!
Look Mum, No Hands! is a Daryl & Co and Mimbre co-production. Look Mum, No Hands! is a tender tale of friendship and growing up. It explores a coming-of-age story about two friends testing their own boundaries. Together they explore freedom, taking risks and independence. They see how those things change, depending on who you are. Risk is a…
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Lifted
Mimbre’s outdoor production Lifted is a collection of funny, poetic and surprising moments, which explore in different ways what it means when one body is carried by another. Or when one person carries two people. Or when a person doesn’t want to be carried. Or when three people find the perfect balance. Created in collaboration with three…
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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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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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The Exploded Circus
Step into the moment where an explosion has been frozen in time, the remnants of a big top caught mid-air – with everything from circus ring, sequins and fairground horses suspended above ground. Featuring a breath-taking mix of acrobatics, surprising aerial feats and masterful juggling, The Exploded Circus weaves a story told without words, where six female…
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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.…
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If I Could I Would
If I Could I Would is a fast-paced piece of physical theatre featuring virtuoso acrobatics, imagination and humour that recognises it sometimes takes a superhuman effort to rise above the relentless demands of everyday urban life. An all-female cast play an array of familiar characters in a day where the coffee is spilled, the commute is…
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Flying Home
Flying Home is a 10 minute piece featuring dizzying acrobatics and flight (if you’re willing to believe). It is an extract from our outdoor show If I Could I Would – a physical re-imagination of a day where you could freeze the baddies, save the day and fly home when the bus is late. The performance considers the…
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Bench
A woman sits on a bench and watches the world pass by… Bench is a small and beautiful acrobatic performance about the everyday theatre and dance of life. Loneliness and happiness, bag-ladies and runaway brides, spell-binding moments mixed with the comic and ordinary – a reflection on who we are and how we connect with others.…
