Ivo Dimchev
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Do yourself a favour! A practical Coaching on creating a solo The aim is that everyone has a coherent solo performance that expresses at best his/her own artistic individuality at the end of the five days. Different ways on developing a solo work, own physical and text material, writing on dramaturgy, dealing with space, objects, contexts, and making choices will be proposed. We will delve into questions such as: What do I really enjoy doing? What would I love to do on stage? What kind of physicality or body language do I need to relate to the space I am working in? Do I need to use objects? If yes, which object is the most important to me? How many different ways can I find to relate to an object and develop material out of it? How can I use movement material, an object or text to relate to the space, other objects, the audience, myself or an idea? How do I write my own dramaturgical text? What should I write about? And what, from the already written, shall I finally use for my solo? What’s the length or the intensity of the different scenes or elements? Participants will be given different assignments based on these practical questions and get support for making up their creative trajectories. Awareness of our own process and taking distance from it, developing enough material in a limited time and finally assembling a finished solo performance, which shows your unique artistic qualities. Individual feedback will be encouraged among the group in order to understand different processes and to support each others work. Ivo Dimchev 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 then 30 performances. He has received numerous international awards for dance and theatre and has presented his work all over Europe and North America. Besides his artistic work Ivo Dimchev gives master classes in the National Theatre Academy in Budapest and in the Royal Dance Conservatory of Belgium in Antwerp. He is founder and director of the Humarts Foundation in Bulgaria and organises a national competition for contemporary choreography every year. Since two years he is in the master programme for Performing Arts studies at DASarts Academy / Amsterdam. ?Since October 2009 Ivo Dimchev lives and works in Brussels and runs his own performance space Volksroom.