Ivo Dimchev is a performance artist, choreographer, visual artist, singer-songwriter, and queer activist from Bulgaria. His work is an extreme and eclectic blend of performance art, dance, theater, music, painting, and photography. He has created over 40 stage productions and is the recipient of numerous international awards for dance and theater. Most of his stage works are featured in the book "Stage Works 2002–2016." Additionally, he has written over 100 original songs, collected in his *Songbook*. His work has been presented across Europe, as well as in North and South America and Asia.
Since November 2023, Ivo Dimchev has been an artist-in-residence at La MaMa Theatre in New York, where he creates and presents his latest stage works, Hell/Top 40 and METCH.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dimchev performed more than 400 private concerts in people's homes across Bulgaria, Istanbul, New York, and Los Angeles.
The magazine *The New Yorker* covers these performances of his in the profile "The Extravagant Exuberance of Ivo Dimchev."
