Concert

Songs from my Shows

Concert by Ivo Dimchev

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Igor Levit © Ivo Dimchev

An extraordinary songwriter and performer, Ivo Dimchev offers a live concert of songs that were created across the span of career, to date. Enormous musicality and remarkable vocal gifts have been signature parts of all of Dimchev’s legendary past productions. For this intimate encore evening, Dimchev gathers a selection of songs, liberates them from their original context and presents them as independent, individual opuses.

Ivo Dimchev is a Bulgarian performing artist, known internationally for his provocative and often controversial works of performance art. His work is extreme and colorful mixture of performance art ,dance, theater, music, drawings and photography. Dimchev is author of more than 30 performances. He has received numerous international awards for dance and theater and has presented his work across Europe, South America, and North America. He has led master classes at the National Theater Academy in Budapest, the Royal Dance Conservatory of Belgium in Antwerp, Hochschule der Künste in Bern, Switzerland, DanceWeb in Vienna, Giessen University in Germany, the Bremen Academy of Art, and other institutions. Dimchev is the founder and director of the Humarts Foundation in Bulgaria and organizes an annual competition for contemporary Bulgarian choreography. Dimchev is currently an Artist in Residence at Kaaitheater in Brussels. In 2014, he opened MOZEI in Sofia, Bulgaria, as an independent space for presenting contemporary art and music.

Now Dimchev lives between Vienna, New York and Los Angeles and presents internationally his performances, books and concerts.

Before and after the Concert the audience can buy signed copies of his book “Stage Works 2003- 2016”.

Text and music by Ivo Dimchev
On the cello Justin Kantor