D(USCH)
ABOUT D(USCH)
D(USCH) is a newly formed collective of six mime performers. Drawing on mime technique, they create stories and transform bodies into rich poetry and absurd humour.
D(USCH) is driven by an interest in interdisciplinary artistic practices and feminist inquiry within the performing arts.
Through the lathered world of the shower, they imagine the possibility of the wet, solitary body dissolving into togetherness. Here, the idea of a female-coded naked body emerging from behind a shower curtain is stripped of its sexual tension. It becomes something else. It becomes absurd and humorous. A celebration of caring for one’s own body. A celebration of uncomplicated bare skin. In this way, the artistic exploration embraces playfulness while still poking at harmful social structures.
The collective consists of Klara Nikolaj Svejgaard, Vera Fhager, Sofia Pilesjö, Merete Lindholm, Ebba König Winqvist, and Sofia Källman. All six are recent graduates of the Mime Acting Programme at Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) and have extensive experience working together, even though D(USCH) itself is a newly established constellation. Alongside their training in mime, they bring a wide range of artistic practices to the collective, including singing, directing, playwriting, farce, and choreography.
PARTICIPATION IN MIME FEST GBG 2026
SHOW(ER) marks the beginning of the group’s collaboration and will continue to be developed during a residency at Gottsunda Dans & Teater.
In SHOW(ER), the group brings together their experience in mime, dance, performance, and clowning to explore what emerges at the intersection of these art forms.
The work is rooted in a collaborative creative process, drawing on the fundamental principles of mime and clown technique. They also investigate what it means to be a feminist performing arts collective today, using the body and movement as their point of departure. The group seeks to create a space that embraces the body – both one’s own and others’ – with generosity and humour, where the female-coded body is allowed to be funny, strange, and free. Their hope is to offer a complicated utopia: a place that does not erase friction but still makes room for safety and intimacy. In the shower room, secrets are exposed, and boundaries of privacy are constantly created and dissolved.
At GBG Mime Fest 2026, we invite you to experience a work-in-progress presentation, where we share our brand-new material.
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