Ivo Dimchev is a choreographer and performer from Bulgaria. His work is an extreme and colourful mixture of performance art, dance, theatre and music. Dimchev is the author of more than 30 performances. He has received numerous international awards for dance and theatre and has presented his work all over North America and Europe, very often at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival. Besides his artistic work, Ivo Dimchev gives master classes at the National Theatre Academy in Budapest, at the Royal Dance Conservatory of Belgium in Antwerp and at Hochschule der Künste Bern, among others. In 2013, he was the mentor of the danceWEB scholarship programme, which he himself took part in as a scholarship recipient in 2003, also in the frame of ImPulsTanz. He is founder and director of the Humarts Foundation in Bulgaria and organises a national competition for contemporary choreography every year. He studied in the master programme for Performing Arts studies at DASarts Academy in Amsterdam. He lived and worked in Brussels and headed the performance space Volksroom. In 2014, he moved to Sofia and opened a new art space called Mozei, which presents live performances and visual art. In recent years, he focused on writing songs, lives between Los Angeles, New York, Vienna and Sofia, and presents his controversial performances, song recitals, concerts, exhibitions and books intensively. From 2013 to 2017, he was artist-in-residence at Kaaitheater.
