family activities

Falling Up – Indoor Version at Jacksons Lane

Falling Up at Jacksons Lane – 19th June, 8pm Next week we are moving indoors with an experimental way of performing Falling Up – part promenade and part staged performance, in the beautiful building of Jacksons Lane. Below Artistic Director Lina Johansson reflects on her approach to this brand new version:
Collective Movement Festival – Feedback

We had a wonderful time at our first Collective Movement Festival the weekend before Easter and thank everybody, especially all our young people, the volunteers and the numerous audience members who together helped make it such a great success! Also, we’d like to thank everybody for the nice feedback and supporting our aim to raise…
Mimbre’s Collective Movement Festival

Mimbre would like to say a massive THANK YOU to all those who came and supported our very first Collective Movement Festival last Saturday.
mimbre at Discover Young Hackney

mimbre presents Acrobatics and Street Dance Lessons for Young People Aged 13-19 Years Old Join in the Discover Young Hackney hype by attending mimbre’s FREE acrobatics and street dance drop-in sessions at half-term. You can choose one that interests you most – or attend all three!
Mimbre’s youth group at Hackney Empire

We at mimbre are so proud of our youth group, the Step Up group, who delivered a fantastic performance last Friday at Hackney Empire as part of the Discover Young Hackney Festival! VERY WELL DONE EVERYBODY!!! Below is a sneak review of the last instructions and back-stage preparations for the performance and the dress rehearsal…
Creative Weekend with the Step Up group

Hey mimbre followers, We had a fantastic weekend with mimbre’s young company – the Step Up group. They spent the entire weekend working hard to create a performance for the Discover Young Hackney – Festival opening ceremony at the Hackney Empire this Friday (1st of February). The show has flips, twirls and lifts. Have a…
This was my 2012! – a year’s review by Lina Johansson mimbre joint artistic director

Just as 2013 is kicking in proper I wanted to take the last chance to take a brief look back on all I achieved in 2012 – both with mimbre and together with other companies or artists. For me it was an exciting and busy year, lots that I learned and lots that I am…
Mimbre at GDIF 2012

As followers of our work know, our show “Falling Up” also stopped at the Greenwich+Docklands International Festival during last summer’s tour. We really enjoyed being part of this lovely festival and would therefore like to share some beautiful impressions of the festival, the different and colourful performances and the atmosphere that took over the whole borough…
Falling Up, supported by Without Walls

Our latest show Falling Up had a great tour last summer, premiering at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival and subsequently touring across the UK and Europe. We are very proud of Falling Up’s reception and all the great feedback we got along the way and thank everybody who helped make it a success – such…
Costume Workshop – Sat January 19th

mimbre and London College of Fashion have set up a collaborative project to make costumes for our Step-Up acrobatic group which they will wear during the opening performance of the Discover Young Hackney Festival at Hackney Empire. The costume workshop will be held on Saturday 19th January from 10am to 4pm at London College of…