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  • Family Day at Milton Gardens

    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…

  • 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…

  • Another Reason to be Chearful

    Another Reason to be Chearful

    It will come as no surprise to those of you who know the company off-stage that we are very conscious of our role as a female-led company in the performing arts. We believe everyone, men and women, single or otherwise, parent or not, should have the best chance they can have to pursue the career…

  • Mimbre Are Auditioning

        EXTENDED DEADLINE TO 4TH NOVEMBER AND ADDITIONAL AUDITION DATES! We’re looking for acro-balance performers to come and work with the company on our new show, Bench. We are looking for experienced, female acro-balance performers, middle and base, with a minimum of 2 years professional performing experience, to be part of our show, Bench.…

  • Mimbre Circus Central – Winning Image of a Beautiful Day

    So following on from the amazing success of our first festival, Mimbre Circus Central,  you may remember that we were running a photo competition for the best image of the day…and the wondeful winning image is: What a lovely shot from Kirsten, that shows the day in all it’s have-fun-and-get-involved glory! Kirsten has won a Digital…

  • Bench – Mimbre’s New Show for 2014

    ‘Bench’ – Mimbre new production 2014 A woman sits on a bench and watches the world pass by…. A Bench: in a park, on the street, in a square; sitting, sleeping, climbing, jumping, meeting, reading, gossiping. Making friends. Ageing. Rejuvenating. Bench is Mimbre’s new show for 2014, an outdoor show with 3 performers, easy to…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Mimbre Circus Central – the biggest hit on Narrow Way!

    As already mentioned before on this blog, we had such a great time organising and celebrating Mimbre Circus Central, our very first self-curated festival on central Hackney’s Narrow Way in early September, and we are VERY proud of all the fantastic feedback we’ve since received! For example, Hackney Today writes: “The latest in in a programme of…