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Metch

Ivo Dimchev, Bulgaria

17 December 2024, Tuesday

Big hall

19.30 hour

80

Metch

Ivo Dimchev, Bulgaria

interactive solo performance

M.E.T.CH. - Music, Exhibition, Text, Choreography

concept, music and text by Ivo Dimchev

"METCH is a concert exhibition, an auction, an exercise, an excessive production of paintings,
an obsessive dialog with the audience and of course the songs... I know many people come to my shows
because they like my songs. For good or for bad those people will need to experience or crash with my very complex and unpredictable relationship to theatre, dance, politics, and contemporary art. “

METCH premiered Feb 16- 25 at La Mama experimental theatre club in New York.

METCH is the second work Ivo premieres at La Mama as an Artist in Residence after In Hell with Jesus/Top 40

Press:

Dimchev inspires a rare form of trust by cultivating an intimate community with the audience.NYTimes

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

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

"Animalistic one moment, delicate the next, he meshes darkness and lightness with verbal and physical dexterity." - New York Times

"His beautiful singing sounds like a voice on an old record: poignantly far away." - Financial Times

"Dimchev not only confirms his exceptional talent and ability to push the boundaries of traditional art, but also invites the audience to reflect on profound themes in a context of experimentation and innovation.” /Ilnewyorkese magazine/

"METCH is a seemingly haphazard mash-up of performance styles that both parodies and excavates the act of performance — as only Dimchev can. Pushing the boundaries of what constitutes audience interaction. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED." Adrian Dimanlig- INTERLUDES

Ivo Dimchev, Bulgaria

interactive solo performance

Concept, music and text Ivo Dimchev