“D/Strauss Technique” is a musical and dance course aiming to enhance the spirit, vocal ability, agility and desire in the audience. Setting out from the music by King of the Waltz, Johann Strauss, Dimchev creates 10 healing /light/ songs and choreographies relating to various aspects of desire and the psycho-physical health of the ordinary citizen. An assembly of frivolity. An explanation in love to all human things.
Ivo Dimchev is a theatre maker, choreographer, visual artist, singer-songwriter, and queer activist from Bulgaria. His work is an extreme and colorful mix of performance art, dance, theater, music, painting, and photography. He is the author of more than 40 stage performances and has received numerous international awards for dance and theater. He has also written more than 100 original songs all included in his Songbook. His work has been presented throughout Europe, South and North America, and Asia.
In 2023 Ivo Dimchev was Artist in residence at La Mama theatre in New York, where he created and premiered his last stage works Hell/Top 40 and METCH.
During the Covid pandemic Dimchev performed more than 400 private concerts in people’s homes in Bulgaria, Istanbul, New York, and Los Angeles. The New Yorker covered these performances in a profile on Dimchev titled The Extravagant Exuberance of Ivo Dimchev.
Ivo Dimchev is the founder and director of Bulgaria’s Humarts Foundation. In 2009, after doing his master’s studies on performing arts at Dasarts Academy in Amsterdam, he opened Volksroom in Brussels, a performance space that presents young international artists. In 2014, he opened MOZEI in Sofia, Bulgaria, as an independent space for presenting contemporary art and music. In addition to his artistic work, Dimchev gives master classes at the National Theater Academy (Budapest), the Royal Dance Conservatorium of Belgium (Antwerp), Hochschule der Künste (Bern), Amsterdam University of the Arts, and DanceWeb (Vienna), among others.
The international program of Antistatic Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance is organized by the Brain Store Project Foundation and the Nomad Dance Association, with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture, Sofia Municipality – Calendar of Cultural Events, Goethe-Institut Bulgarien, the research project “DanceMap” funded by “Horizon Europe” Programme of the European Union, and in partnership with RCCI Toplocentrala, and “Academia” Gallery of the National Academy of Art.
Ticket prices: Рay What You Can – you choose between 40, 30 or 20 BGN according to your means.
With care and understanding of the different situations our audience members find themselves in, in 2025 Antistatic introduces a “pay what you can” pricing policy for all tickets to the events in the festival programme with an entry. Each spectator can choose how much to pay for their ticket from three price categories – 40, 30 and 20 BGN.
Until May 4, 2025, all students and colleagues working in the field of dance can also benefit from special tickets for 15 BGN.