Ivo Dimchev is a theatre maker, choreographer, visual artist, singer-songwriter, and queer activist from Bulgaria. His work is an intense and colourful mix of performance art, dance, theatre, music, painting, and photography. He has created more than 40 stage performances and received numerous international awards for dance and theatre.
Most of his stage works are included in his book Stage Works 2002-2016. He has also written over 100 original songs, all compiled in his Songbook. His work has been showcased across Europe, South and North America, and Asia.
Since November 2023, Ivo Dimchev has been an Artist-in-Residence at La MaMa Theatre in New York, where he created and premiered his latest stage works, Hell/Top 40 and METCH.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dimchev performed more than 400 private concerts in people’s homes in Bulgaria, Istanbul, New York, and Los Angeles. These unique performances were featured in The New Yorker in a profile titled The Extravagant Exuberance of Ivo Dimchev.
Dimchev is the founder and director of Bulgaria’s Humarts Foundation. In 2009, after completing his master’s studies in performing arts at DasArts Academy in Amsterdam, he opened Volksroom in Brussels, a performance space for young international artists. In 2014, he founded MOZEI in Sofia, Bulgaria, an independent venue for contemporary art and music. Beyond his artistic practice, Dimchev teaches masterclasses at institutions such as the National Theatre Academy (Budapest), the Royal Dance Conservatory of Belgium (Antwerp), Hochschule der Künste (Bern), Amsterdam University of the Arts, and DanceWeb (Vienna), among others.
Organisation: Kino Šiška
