Lina Johansson

  • Falling Up – Indoor Version at Jacksons Lane

    Falling Up at Jacksons Lane – 19th June, 8pm Next week we are moving indoors with an experimental way of performing Falling Up – part promenade and part staged performance, in the beautiful building of Jacksons Lane. Below Artistic Director Lina Johansson reflects on her approach to this brand new version:

  • More pictures from Valladolid!

    Below are more photos from our performances at the International Street Theatre Festival in Valladolid (all pictures can also be found here)!

  • Tour start!

    As followers of this blog and our work will know, we are on tour again! This year’s summer tour has been kicked off a couple of weeks ago with performances of “Falling Up” and “Until Now” in Mondeville/France (for more information on the festival Plateaux Ephemeres please go here) and last weekend we had the…

  • Mimbre at Dalston Children’s Festival

    This Saturday, May 25th, the Dalston Children’s Festival will be launched, a new community-led festival that promotes fun and free things to do for children and young people, all over Dalston, all summer long (25th May – 31st Aug 2013). It is a celebration of the extraordinary creativity of Dalston’s community and the resourcefulness and…

  • Mimbre receives Compass Commission!

    Yesterday evening at Laurie Grove Studios in New Cross the Trinity Laban & Greenwich Dance Partnership announced the winners of their newly created Compass Commissions… and Mimbre was awarded one of the three commissions (from a total of 137 competing entries!) to develop a new production with the working title Bench. 

  • Mimbre’s tour dates 2013

    Falling Up and Until Now are ready for the summer tour now – two proven and successful shows that are looking even better after re-rehearsals, with some new material and choreographies developed this year. Both productions use Mimbre’s trademark mix of acrobatics, dance and humour to create strong imagery, visual poetry and emotional content.

  • Falling Up and Until Now on tour again

    Our performers are currently in rehearsals to get two of our shows, “Falling Up” and “Until Now”, ready again to tour across the UK and Europe this summer. This is always an interesting and exciting  development process, but very different from creating a show from scratch, as our Artistic Director Lina Johansson explains: 

  • 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’s youth group at Hackney Empire

    We at mimbre are so proud of our youth group, the Step Up group, who delivered a fantastic performance last Friday at Hackney Empire as part of the Discover Young Hackney Festival! VERY WELL DONE EVERYBODY!!! Below is a sneak review of the last instructions and back-stage preparations for the performance and the dress rehearsal…

  • Mimbre at GDIF 2012

    As followers of our work know, our show “Falling Up” also stopped at the Greenwich+Docklands International Festival during last summer’s tour. We really enjoyed being part of this lovely festival and would therefore like to share some beautiful impressions of the festival, the different and colourful performances and the atmosphere that took over the whole borough…