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  • Summer 2014 – What a year!

      We’ve had such a great summer at Mimbre! Here are some of our highlights.                    (Photo credit: Marcos Avlonitis, Talula Sheppard) At the start of the summer we were offered continued support by the Arts Council England as a National Portfolio Organisation. We are incredibly proud to have been selected amongst…

  • Mimbre Circus Central this Saturday 20th September!

    We’re very excited to announce the schedule for our 2nd annual Mimbre Circus Central festival in Hackney Central.   The event is on the pedestrianised portion at the north end of Mare Street, very close to Hackney Central Station. The programme this year is so much fun. The festival will open with the lovely Mrs H…

  • Digital R&D

    Hi All, We’ve just come back from an amazing week of research and development at 101 and we wanted to share some of the amazing images and footage with you. We were exploring the possibilities of physical performance and digital interactive technologies with three acrobats and the amazing projection designer Eva Auster. All the photos are…

  • Recruiting – Administrator

    We’re looking for a part-time Administrator to join our team, assisting in the producing and touring of innovative, outdoor circus-theatre across the UK and Europe. The role is for 2 days a week and based in our office in Dalston. The successful candidate will: Have a demonstrable interest in a career in arts administration, particularly…

  • Bench Première

    Hi all, we’re very pleased to announce some more details about our première of Bench next week. The show will be part of the Crossing The Creek family dance weekend at Greenwich Dance and Laban on 11th and 12th April. This event will be indoors and is a great, weather-proof chance to preview the show…

  • We’re Recruiting For A Scenographer/Visual Content Producer

    As our regular readers will know we’re currently developing a new performance for summer 2015. We are now recruiting for a core member of the creative team – the Scenographer/Visual Content Producer. The show, “Time”, will be a highly visual production, using digital projection techniques, acrobatics, dance, film, animations and imagery to explore one of…

  • What we did last year

    Another year has flown by and I wanted to do a quick peak back at all the exciting things we achieved in 2013. It was a year  where all the different aspects of Mimbre’s  work started to mix, cross and gain profile in a  whole new way – our youth company took centre stage on…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • In the workshop of Bench’s set designer

    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…