Mime Explosion goes Solo
Venue: Göteborgs stadsteater
Time: 5 October: 19.00-20.13
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Welcome to a more intimate, but just as explosive variety show celebrating the solo acts of mime!
To uphold the tradition, also this year, the festival has prepared a program of shorter acts to show the full width and variety of mime, but in slightly smaller format. And this time, the groups and larger companies will have to stand aside and let the individual artist take the spotlight–Mime Explosion Goes Solo!
Hosts of GBG Mime Explosion
Livia Hiselius and Maria Strand Renberg (SE)
Fiasko Kompaniet is a Swedish-Norwegian performance group led by Maria Strand Renberg and Livia Hiselius.
Fiasko Kompaniets work is focused on how performance meets scenography and objects. Both in established theater rooms and in public spaces. Through abstract installations in motion, experimental puppet theater, sound images and humour they want to influence the extraordinary in life. Their aim is to develop art for a mixed age group, with themes that touch on existential issues and bring forth thoughts about our surroundings.
More info about Fiasko Kompaniet at:
www.fiaskokompaniet.com // www.instagram.com/fiaskokompaniet
In house musician GBG Mime Explosion
Stormryttaren (SE)
Freddie Mercury meets Saint Bridget. Soul-stirring presence and an acrobatic voice dances between passion and reflection. Julia Stokes’ musical persona blends dreamy art pop with her Debussy rock. She also composes for the mime theater Teater Tilt, adding yet another layer of magic to her artistry.
In house technician: Amanda Clausen
SVENSKA:
Även denna gång har festivalen förberett ett hopplock av kortare akter för att visa på mimens bredd och variation, men i ett lite mindre format. Och nu är det inte gruppen och de större kompanierna som får glänsa utan den ensamma mimaren–Mime Explosion Goes Solo! Välkomna till en mer intim, men alltjämt lika explosiv mimvarieté, fylld av alla möjliga slags känslor.



GBG Mime Explosion - Goes Solo!

Sara Myrberg (SE)
Sara Myrberg is a freelance mime-actor, creator and director from Stockholm, Sweden. Her main focus is theatre for children and she has created and toured with several performances all over the world. She also has a Master in Acting at Uniarts, with the thesis on the actor and the youngest audience.
Overture
Overture was the starting fragment of Sara´s master exposition- fake or fure. The performance was an exploration of the inside of an actor who has dedicated her artistic life to theatre for children. Overture is an instalation, and it gives glimpses of what to come, setting the mode.

Benoît Turjman (FR)
Since his debut, Benoît has dedicated himself to physical acting. Trained at Marcel Marceau’s International School, he has performed in various shows, from commedia dell’arte to circus, opera to cabaret, and stunt show to mime. He now takes his character The Neighbor on tour across France and the world.
“A day at the beach”
“He is a grouchy nerd, boy next door… and living next to you !ˮ
Greasy hair, velour trousers and forever bachelor, he makes the girls flee and stir up trouble like no one else!
Today, The Neighbor spends a day at the beach.

Fia Adler Sandblad (SE)
With a background in physical theatre, Fia Adler Sandblad explores the relation between body, word and voice. In search of her own way and expression within theatre, she has committed herself to creating theatre that involves the profound and often dark nature of human beings and their struggle for light and joy.
Meeting Majken
As a young, pregnant and single parent Marianne has an encounter with the child supervisor Majken. This is an extract from the performance ”Aldrig Glömd – en skröna om min mamma i en akt”, ADAS teater.
Farewell
A reminder that everything ends and that we all suddenly vanish. Music: Maria Callas, ur Tosca. This is an extract from the performance ”larssons blandning”, ADAS teater.’

Annika B. Lewis (DK)
Annika B. Lewis is born in San Francisco, raised in Sweden and now based in Denmark. She works internationally as a self-producing artist in the intersection of dance, theater, artivism and performance art. Annika studied physical theater and dance and holds a MFA degree in Contemporary Performative Arts from the Academy for Music and Drama in Gothenburg, Sweden. Annika is the founder of Kassandra Production, and artist-driven interdisciplinary platform for contemporary performing arts based in Denmark.
Bubble
Bubble is an absurd interactive act with and in a bathtub filled with foam.
Bubble has previously been presented in cabarets in Washington DC, Copenhagen and Aarhus.
Performer: Annika B. Lewis aka Miss Aqua
Music: Krøyer & Mønsted

Anetta Aleksandra Anisimova (UA)
Anetta is a Ukrainian mime, actress and dancer based in Norway. Educated as a mime performer she was a member of the Ilinastroe mime theater in Ukraine and nowadays is a participant of Katma theater, Frikar dance company and works on her own projects.
“Peace inside us”
I want to share my own story about a difficult choice between staying at home with my family and escaping from the country during a massive attack to save my life. This choice changed my life completely, and left a painful wound in my heart forever. But I show my power and heal my inner world.

Isabell Prevett-Gustavsson (SE)
Isabell graduated from Stockholm university of the arts in Mime acting 2022. Her goal is to give the audience an experience and to communicate something that feels valuable regardless if it is through humor, sincerity or just a strange feeling in your gut.
Mirroring
In this act I wanted to explore how we look at ourselves through the reflection of others. How that makes its way into our private safe spaces. I wanted to create a situation that I think everybody can relate too independently of who we are and in which body we live in.