Selfie

Ivo Dimchev (BG)

"Selfie is a choreography, selfie is a sculpture, selfie is a tragedy, selfie is love. Selfie is less about me, it's more about us." – Ivo Dimchev
Selfie Concert is the most recent work of Ivo Dimchev and is part of a series of performances in which Dimchev investigates different ways of interacting with the audience. A Selfie Concert suggests an altering of the relationship between the audience and the performer, a different way of sharing. Selfie simply shows. It does not explain, it is evidence. However, the selfie is also a reason to be together, to be close physically. Selfie is an instrument for making the monotonic dramaturgy of the concert more alive – and for breaking it.
Ivo Dimchev (1976) is a choreographer and performer from Bulgaria, known internationally for his provocative and often controversial works of performance art. His work is an extreme and colorful mixture of performance art, dance, theatre, music, drawings and photography. Dimchev is an author of more than 30 performances. He has received numerous international awards for dance and theatre and has presented his work across Europe, South America and North America.
 

Idea, text and music by: Ivo Dimchev
Performed by: Ivo Dimchev and the audience
Production: Humarts Foundation (Sofia - BG)
Co-production: ImPulsTanz (Vienna - AT), mumok (Vienna - AT)
Management and Distribution: Something Great (Berlin - DE)

Duration: 50 minutes
Concert, no translation