Dates / Schedules
Saturday, September 12, 2026 9:30pm
Free admission. Tickets required. Subject to venue capacity. Tickets must be collected from the CCB Box Office one hour before the performance.
Di/STRAUSS Technique is a participatory music and dance performance conceived to stimulate the audience’s spirit, vocal courage, physical freedom, and sense of desire.
Drawing inspiration from the music of Johann Strauss II, the “Waltz King”, Ivo Dimchev composes ten songs of a therapeutic nature and creates playful choreographies that explore the psychophysical well-being of the contemporary individual. Themes such as sexual autonomy, emotional resilience, financial anxiety, self-love, and divine absurdity are explored through music, movement, and audience interaction.
The performance unfolds as a collective ritual of joy and irreverence, blending queer humour with operatic kitsch.
Equipped with cotton bags filled with ribbons, fans, pom-poms, and other objects, spectators become active participants: they sing, move, laugh, confess, and reclaim their own voices.
Performed in English with English surtitles.
Warning: This performance contains alcohol consumption and explicit/strong language.
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Biography
Ivo Dimchev is a Bulgarian theatre maker, choreographer, visual artist, singer-songwriter, and queer activist. His work spans performance, dance, theatre, music, painting, and photography. The author of more than 40 stage works and over 100 original songs, he has received numerous international awards in dance and theatre and has presented his work across Europe, the Americas, and Asia. During the Covid pandemic, he performed more than 400 private concerts in people’s homes in Bulgaria, Istanbul, New York, and Los Angeles, an initiative featured by The New Yorker in the profile The Extravagant Exuberance of Ivo Dimchev. Since 2023, he has been an artist-in-residence at La MaMa in New York, where he created and premiered Hell / Top 40 and METCH. He is also the founder and director of the Humarts Foundation in Bulgaria and regularly teaches at international institutions.
Ages
+16
Data sheet
Concept and Performance Ivo Dimchev
Co-commissioned by Wiener Festwochen | Free Republic of Vienna
Produced by Wiener Festwochen | Free Republic of Vienna
Co-produced by Johann Strauss Year 2025 Wien