Bulgaria
IVO DIMCHEV
7 September, 20:30 – 22:00, Behemoth – TICKETS HERE
Ivo is a theatre maker, choreographer, visual artist, singer-songwriter, and queer activist from Bulgaria. His work is an extreme and colorful mix of performance art, dance, theater, music, painting, and photography. He is the author of more than 40 stage performances and 100 original songs and has received numerous international awards for dance and theater. His work has been presented throughout Europe, South and North America, and Asia.
Since November 2023 Ivo has been Artist in residence at La Mama theatre in New York, where he created and premiered his last stage works Hell/Top 40 and METCH. During the Covid pandemic he performed more than 400 private concerts in people’s homes in Bulgaria, Istanbul, New York, and Los Angeles. The New Yorker covered these performances in a profile on Dimchev titled The Extravagant Exuberance of Ivo Dimchev.
“Dimchev is a first-rate lyricist, profound even when plain… As a performer, he slides effortlessly between masculine and feminine modes; his vocal range is equally protean, moving from a low baritone to a soprano embellished with theremin-like vibratos.” – The New Yorker
“Dimchev’s voice is one that is always shedding its chrysalis to metamorphose, from low and nasal to high and flutey and everywhere in between. It could be as fine as a brushstroke, then as wide as a cathedral. All at once he scatted and ululated and yodeled, punctuated with grunts. His microphone seemed to drip with butter. “ – San Francisco Chronicle
