Lina Johansson

  • 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…

  • Mimbre Youth Company at Sadler’s Wells’ RIOT Offspring

    As I hope you have already seen on this blog and our facebook and twitter, Mimbre Youth Company, our most advanced acrobatics and street dance group, were part of an amazing performance project at Sadler’s Wells this summer: RIOT Offspring, a unique collaboration between five international choreographers: Sébastian Ramirez, Mafalda Deville, Pascal Merighi (guest artist, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch), Ivan Blackstock and Simeon Qsyea (BirdGang)…

  • More pictures from our summer tour 2013!

    Over the past few weeks we had performances of Until Now and Falling Up at City of London Festival, Woking Dance Festival, at Laban, at Alnwick Gardens, at Birmingham Hippodrome and at Appetite in Stoke-on-Trent. We enjoyed each and every one of them very much and would therefore like to share with you some more visual…

  • Until Now at Cherbourg

    Have a look at these lovely pictures of our amazing acrobats performing Until Now at La Breche in Cherbourg, France!

  • Mimbre at Dalston Children’s Festival

    Unfortunately the weather wasn’t very kind to us last Saturday at the Dalston Children’s Festival. Due to heavy wind and rain the performance of “Falling Up” had to be stopped half-way through – the set nearly flew off and it would have been too dangerous for the performers to continue on the slippery ground. Sadly,…

  • Review – Falling Up at Jacksons Lane

    Thanks a lot to all of you who came last Wednesday to Jacksons Lane to see our special indoors version of Falling Up! We had a fantastic time performing at the unique setting of Jacksons Lane and also really enjoyed creating this unique piece! We are also very happy about the wonderful feedback we got from audience…