London
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A FEW YEARS BACK…
This is a guest post by Alison Halstead. Alison is a Mimbre Associate Performer, and a British-born, American-raised, professionally-trained actor. This article originally appeared on her blog 4 foot 6, on 4th September 2016. …I auditioned for an all-female acrobatics company. The small ensemble was looking to expand and to work with women of differing creative and…
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Mimbre on the shoulders of migrants
By Lina Johansson, Joint Artistic Director Mimbre For #1DayWithoutUs – celebrating the contribution of migrants to UK, I thought it appropriate to share Mimbre’s story – which is utterly balanced and built on international travel, migration and collaborations. If you ever enjoyed any of our shows, the classes we led for young people or the events we have…
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Meet our new performers!
We’re in the midst of the production of our new show Bench, directed by our Artistic Director Lina Johansson. a show about the everyday dance of life, our urban landscape, and a cavalcade of characters who come and go; viewed through the eyes of a woman who observes, makes friends, confronts or ignores the people…
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Kids and Fruit?!
Who said that kids don’t like fruit? An important part of our regular youth classes is the commitment to teach our young people not only acrobatic and street dance moves, but also to discuss healthy eating and living. Therefore we also offer them different kinds of fruit as a “healthy snack” during the class. See below…
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In the workshop of Bench’s set designer
You might have already heard… we are in the process of creating a new show called Bench to be premiered next April! This is a very exciting process for everybody involved, including the designers and Artistic Directors! Silvia, one of our Joint Artistic Directors, paid our set designer Michalis Kokkoliadis a visit today to see his first…
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Family Day at Milton Gardens
Our young people are getting better and better at acrobatics and street dance and for last week we gave them the challenge to lead an open class! Everyone (including the 4 year-olds) prepared one move to teach, be it a warm-up move, stretch or dance move and the older kids also prepared little routines. They…
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Mimbre Circus Central Video Online
Finally we got this short video from our festival up and running again after some technical problems. For those of you who weren’t there – take a brief look at what you missed, for those of you who were there – a memory of the last summer day… Enjoy the autumn setting in and leaves…
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Mimbrettes on the Big London Stages
Our Mimbre Artists are on the big stages in London this autumn: Co-founder and Joint Artistic Director Emma Norin stars in The Light Princess at National Theatre which brings together iconic singer-songwriterTori Amos with playwright Samuel Adamson and director Marianne Elliott (Curious Incident, War Horse) in a spectacular coming-of-age story. A dark fairytale about grief, rebellion and the power of love. http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/the-light-princess…
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We are looking for board members!
We are currently looking to expand our Board of Trustees and are searching for dynamic individuals from all walks of life to help us develop our work over the coming years and to support the strategic development of the company. Mimbre is an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation with funding secured until 2015. We are…
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Teaching assistant needed
Teaching Assistant for Mimbre Youth Programme Mimbre is looking for a teaching assistant for our Acrobatics/acrobalance and Street-Dance classes for 4-7 and 8-12 years old children this term.
