D/Strauss Technique

A project of Wiener Festwochen / Free Republic of Vienna

“Di/Strauss Technique” is a music and dance course to strengthen the spirit, vocal abilities, agility and desire in the audience. Using melodies from the king of the waltz Johann Strauss as a basis, Dimchev creates 10 healing songs and choreographies, relating to different aspects of desire and the psycho-physical health of the ordinary citizen. An assembly of frivolity. An explanation in love for everything human.

Ivo Dimchev is a director, choreographer, visual artist, singer, songwriter and LGBTQ activist from Bulgaria. His works are a radical and colorful mix of performance, dance, theater, music, visual arts. He is the author of more than 40 performances and is the winner of numerous international awards for dance and theater. He is also the author of more than 100 songs, collected in his book “Songbook”. His work has been presented in many places in Europe, North and South America and Asia.

Since 2023, Ivo Dimchev has been an artist-in-residence at the La Mama Theater in New York, where he created and premiered two of his most recent shows: “Hell/Top 40” and “METCH”.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dimchev has performed over 400 private concerts in people’s homes in Bulgaria, Istanbul, New York and Los Angeles. The New Yorker magazine tells about these performances in its publication dedicated to Ivo Dimchev, entitled “The Extravagant Exuberance”.

Ivo Dimchev is also the founder and director of the Bulgarian “Humarts” Foundation. After completing his master’s degree at the Amsterdam Academy of Performing Arts “Dasarts”, he opened the performing arts space “Volksroom” in Brussels, which presents young international artists. In 2014, he opened the independent space for contemporary art and music “MOZEI” in Sofia. In parallel with his artistic practice, Dimchev leads master classes at institutions such as the National Theatre Academy in Budapest, the Royal Dance Conservatory in Antwerp, the Higher School of the Arts in Bern, the University of the Arts in Amsterdam, DanceWeb in Vienna and many others.