Directing

Polymer is almost here!

Lina has been away for most of June to work with 18 third year students from the National Centre for Circus Arts on their graduation show. Last year she worked with the same group and together they devised the amazing spectacle “Mergence“. (If you didn’t get the opportunity to watch Mergence you can find photos here…
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

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…
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…
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…
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…
Mimbre Circus Central – what a day!

It is done! Mimbre Circus Central, our very first self-curated festival, took over the Narrow Way in Hackney last Saturday… and it was a great success! The weather held out and all of us had a really wonderful time (even though the day passed much to quickly!) – thanks so much to all of you…