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Face paint & Monsters: End of term community day at Milton Gardens

One of the things I love the most about my job is organising the community days. If you’ve never been to one of ours, you’re really missing out on a big dose of instant happiness. The focus this term was to let the children come up with their own routines, learn how to channel their…
What we do is what we love – Part II

We just received really cool pictures of this weeks’ rehearsal from one of our participant’s dad! Hope you like them!
Mimbre Youth Company at Sadler’s Wells

As followers of our blog know, our talented young acrobats from the Mimbre Youth Company have been selected to take part in RIOT OFFspring, at London’s famous dance venue Sadler’s Wells. RIOT OFFspring is a unique collaboration between five international choreographers – Sébastien Ramirez, Ivan Blackstock (BirdGang), Simeon Qysea (BirdGang), Mafalda Deville and Pascal Merighi (Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch) – and an intergenerational cast,…
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!
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…
Spring Term 2013

Dear mimbre members, The term starts this week, so welcome back! We have planned a fantastic term for you! From now up until march our sessions will focus on your creativity, but we still plan to pack loads of acrobatics, dance, fun and games into the sessions as well.
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…
Acrobatics Masterclass in January

Last weekend (12th and 13th January) the Roundhouse (or at least its Studio Theatre) saw bodies being lifted, legs floating in the air and arm muscles being put under quite some pressure – as mimbre and our Acrobatics Masterclass participants took over the space. We worked on dynamic partner and group work involving lifts, jumps and throws as well…