Concept, music, text: Ivo Dimchev
Ivo Dimchev
METCH
Part of Berlin Art Week 2025
- Music
- Performance
English /
approx. 80 mins.
In “METCH”, Ivo Dimchev combines music, painting, lyrics, and choreography to create an intense solo. As he repeatedly enters into direct dialogue with his audience, he draws them into a world full of poetry, wit and quiet rebellion with his beguiling voice and the melancholic, dirty lyrics of his songs.
For many years, Ivo Dimchev has captivated audiences with his incomparably beautiful voice and the melancholic-but-dirty lyrics to his songs. At the same time, he constantly challenges a comfortable, leaned-back viewing experience, entering into a direct dialogue with his spectators to find out who is sitting in front of him. This is also the case in his latest work “METCH,” an interactive solo in which Dimchev brings together his own theatre texts, songs and paintings in search of new interweavings between his artistic obsessions. This is already evident in the title: “METCH” stands for Music, Exhibition, Text and Choreography. His unique mixture of anarchy and tenderness remains unmistakable and irresistible in this performance.
“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.” Ivo Dimchev
Press:
“Dimchev inspires a rare form of trust by cultivating an intimate community with the audience.” (New York Times)
“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)
Cast
Dates
Past
Credits
Production: Ivo Dimchev.
Location
HAU2
Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available. Four relaxed seats are available in the first row of HAU2.
