GBG Mime Explosion 2026
Venue: Aftonstjärnan
Time: 1 October: 19.00
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The festival invites you to step into an explosion of mime expressions in the atmospheric venue of Aftonstjärnan for this year’s edition of GBG MIME EXPLOSION. Join us for an evening led by the formidable Mistress of Ceremonies Isabell Prevett-Gustavsson who will guide us through a celebration of the spontaneity, audacity and poetry that are found in short, surprising acts from a roster of both local, national and international artists!
On stage:
Escultores del Aire (ES)
Continuo Theatre (CZ)
Zero en Conducta (ES)
Cie Coliberté (FR)
Claire Heggen (FR)
Nora Fuchs (SE)
Stockholm University of the Arts (SE)
…among others!
SVENSKA
Välkommen till en explosion av mim och rörelse på stämningsfulla Aftonstjärnan under årets upplaga av GBG MIME EXPLOSION!
Under en kväll fylld av spontanitet, djärvhet och poesi möter vi korta, överraskande och egensinniga akter av lokala, nationella och internationella artister. Kvällen leds av den strålande konferencieren Isabell Prevett-Gustavsson, som guidar oss genom en färgsprakande kavalkad av scenkonst där kroppen står i centrum.
En kväll för dig som vill upptäcka mimens många uttryck – från det finstämda och poetiska till det absurda, oväntade och lekfulla.

ARTIST LINE-UP

Isabell Prevett-Gustavsson
-Host of the evening
Isabell is a mime who always wants to evolve her expression on stage and loves to throw herself out into the unknown.
She graduated in Mime Acting 2022 from Stockholm University of the Arts and since then she has created and worked with performances for kids, explored the possibilities of turning a classical play into mime, experimented with how she can use nakedness as an artistic tool and right now she is trying to become a slapstick queen.
She always hopes that the audience will enjoy her leap of faith and soften her landing with their applause.

Continuo Theatre (CZ)
For a few fleeting minutes, step into the land of dragons — a hidden world where nothing is quite what it seems. Enter a realm of shadows and desire, where bodies whisper, dreams awaken, and forbidden fantasies take shape. A place where the boundaries between the real and the imagined blur.
About Continuo Theatre:
Continuo Theatre is an international independent theatre group led by Pavel Štourač, its director and artistic coordinator. Since 1995 the company has been settled in a little village in South Bohemia called Malovice in a former farmstead called The Plum Yard. Continuo’s productions cannot be easily categorized into genres. Movement, live music, puppets, physical acting, acrobatics, dance, along with striking visual stylization – all of these create the unique poetics of each individual production.

BACHELOR´S PROGRAMME IN MIME ACTING – SKH
LOSS
Loss emerged from a choreography and composition course in spring 2026. Starting with student-created duets set to music of their choice, the work was shaped into a collective piece together with their teacher Tove Sahlin using choreographic and theatrical tools to explore loss, connection, and transformation.
By and with: Amélie Marmenlind, Emelia Schwieler, Helena Byttner, Hjalmar af Klintberg, Jessica Johansson, Kin Viola Momiyama, Linda Manelius, Maria Josefina Pelosi, Ove Uusma Schyffert, Suvi Laukkanen, Siiri Laminsivu.
Music: Remains (Volker Bertlemann) and we stood there ( Bonander) Classique (Adieu Aru) Pulkka ( Vesala)
Text: extracts from Precarious lives/ Judith Butler/ Verso 2006

Coliberté (FR)
BONHEUR (Happiness) is a physical theater play combining movement and live sound effects. With humor, cruelty, and poetry, it questions the myth of a consumer society as a source of happiness. Without words, it reveals the absurdity of existence, inviting us to reflect on our shared humanity.
We are Andrea, Fabio, Louise, Luca, Sara, Sandrine, Soufiane and J.M.Y. Inspired by Tarkovsky’s approach of (ab)normality we explore, through physical theater and sounds, the excesses of consumerism and how it shapes humanity. Without words, our shows transcend cultural boundaries, and we love it!

Los escultores del aire (ES)
THE KID NEXT TO ME is a physical theatre duet created and performed by real-life father and son Mai and Leo Rojas. Their relationship becomes the frame for a deeper metaphor: an adult confronting the pain inherited across generations and meeting the child he once was. A journey through memory, acceptance and healing, where the inner child is no longer hidden, but finally seen and embraced.
Mai Rojas is a Costa Rican-born, Barcelona-based theatre creator, performer, director and pedagogue specialising in physical theatre and corporeal mime. Trained at RESAD in Madrid and the International School of Corporeal Mime in London, he has over two decades of international experience. He is co-founder and artistic director of Los Escultores del Aire.

Claire Heggen (FR)

Zero en Conducta (ES)

Nora Fuchs (SE)