Ivo Dimchev’s performance explores contemporary solitude and individualism as dark, fragile, yet still inhabitable territories. Through voice, play, movement, and the exposure of the body, Dimchev invites the audience to experience temporary forms of collectivity: unstable, imperfect, desiring. Not as a reassuring refuge, but as a living practice—risky and necessary.
Inspired by the music of Johann Strauss II, the “King of the Waltz,” Di/STRAUSS Technique takes the form of a performative course in music and dance, built around ten “healing” songs and ironic, liberating choreographies. A device halfway between a concert, a ritual, and an emotional workout, where entertainment blends with vulnerability.
Intimate and political themes surface together: sexual autonomy, the struggle to remain emotionally intact, economic anxiety, the relationship with one’s own body, and self-love as an everyday practice—never fully resolved.
In the shared darkness of the room, among overlapping voices and hesitant bodies, a temporary multitude takes shape: an experiment in sensitive coexistence, where fragility is not hidden, but transformed into a possibility for contact.
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Collective Bodies. Forms of Collectivity is part of Hello Darkness 2026.
BASE’s public program: a project of research, experimentation, and cultural production that invites us to consider darkness as a fertile space for possibility, relation, and transformation.
Through a multifaceted calendar of events, performances, talks, participatory practices, and moments of listening, HELLO DARKNESS brings visual arts, design, music, theory, technologies, and community practices into dialogue, configuring itself as an open public space capable of welcoming artists, researchers, and communities experimenting with alternative forms of cultural production.