Whether training with the notoriously daring Cuban circus performers, or collaborating with physical theatre expert Flick Ferdinando, the all-female acrobatic trio Mimbre are constantly pushing themselves to reach new creative and technical heights. Founding member Lina Johansson talks to Michelle Draper about Mimbre’s latest production, ‘Trip-Tic’.
When Silvia Fratelli, from Italy, and Swedes Lina Johansson and Emma Norin, met on a circus arts training course at The Circus Space in London in 1996, the three performers hit it off. After their final year show together went down a treat, marking the completion of the two-year course, the trio decided to continue training together, with the intention of ‘breaking a boring tradition in circus and dance of big boys lifting small girls.’
