Our Approach To

An Evaluation: looking back at our 2022 tour of Look Mum, No Hands!

Look back at the 2022 tour of our Daryl & Co co-production Look Mum, No Hands! with us! We’re sharing our evaluation of last year’s tour of Look Mum, No Hands!. We hope it will be helpful to share this information to be able to have open discussions about what we are doing as an…
Our approach to: Acrolab 2023 resources

We recently returned from a fantastic week at 101 Outdoor Arts: National Centre for Arts in Public Space where we hosted our Acrolab 2023! The Acrolab was a week-long residency with women and non-binary acrobatic performers, with the aim of developing the practice of acrobalance and group acrobatics in terms of access, inclusion and excellence. Here, we…
Our approach to: Menstruation

Welcome to this instalment of our blog posts about Mimbre’s approach to various subjects across outdoor arts, circus and running a company. We’re publishing our Executive Director Lissy Lovett’s summary of the presentation she made at the ITC Members Forum Dignity at Work Forum: Menstruation & Menopause. We’re sharing the resources that were discussed too…
Garsington Opera’s ‘creativity through constraint’

We recently shared how we approached our rehearsals and performances. Now, here is another different example of a Covid-19 protocol in rehearsals, from Garsington Opera. Mimbre’s Artistic Director, Lina Johansson, has been in rehearsals (virtual and physical) choreographing for their production Eugene Onegin since early this year. Garsington Opera’s production Eugene Onegin premiered last night!…
Our approach to: Tour rehearsals this year

We are very excited to announce the beginning of our tour of Lifted for summer 2021, with our first performance coming up this weekend, at The Lowry in Salford! Before we head out on the road, we wanted to quickly share about how we approached our rehearsals and tour preparations. After a lot of consideration, we…
Our approach to: Working with high physicality outdoors

Working with high physicality outdoors: challenges and solutions by Lina Johansson, Mimbre acrobats. Since everyone is currently talking about outdoor theatre, we thought it worth sharing Lina Johansson’s talk at the recent online European Federation for Education and Training in Street Arts online conference in Slovenia more widely. Here Lina outlines some of the challenges…
Our Approach To: Making Short Films In-House

In this instalment of Our Approach To articles, we invited Frankie-Rose Taylor, Mimbre’s former Marketing and Communications Officer, to share with us her experience of creating in-house short films as part of a project supported by The Space. If there is one element of the complexities of social media algorithms that communications officers across the…
Our Approach To: Working Across Different Scales

In our next blog post about Mimbre’s approach to various subjects across outdoor arts, circus and running a company, our Executive Director, Lissy Lovett, writes about working across different scales with a focus on the company’s 2018 tour of The Exploded Circus. Mimbre have been touring three-person shows outdoors since 2000. We’ve also worked on…
Our Approach To: Touring with Children

Mimbre turned 21 recently, so in the coming months we thought we’d share a few thoughts about some of the things we’ve learned across the years. To begin, here’s our Joint Artistic Director Silvia Fratelli (mother of Dylan and Frida), writing about how Mimbre approaches touring with children: In this post I’ll be talking about…