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PERFORMING ARTS
Allerleirauh by Angela Masi and by Dillon Feldman, 2023
A compassionate and witty take on the classic Grimm fairytale, Allerleirauh is the story of a genius architect who is forced to flee her homeland to protect her blind daughter. Disguised as beggars, they find work in the kitchens of a neighboring castle. With the help of a grumpy cook, a vegetarian king and an outrageous cast of characters, The Builder finds within herself the strength to face the cost of her mistakes and become the mother and queen she was always meant to be.
Directed by Catriona Stevens
Projection design and artwork by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
Light design by Matt Steinberg - Choreography by Michael Scannelli
Cast: Adam Barr, Camber Carpenter, Paul Gary, Jeffrey Grover, Zoila N. Pinto, Sean Quigley, Yasmin Ranz-Lind, Chase Wolfe, Claire E. Dempsey, Shari Gill, Veronica Depauli, Sofia Ales
Band: Natasha Gonzalez music direction; Blair Hamrick, Katya Barmotina, Alice Levine, Vince Novellino, Dave D’aranjo, Andy Buslovich, Emma Reinhart, Steve Plesnarski
March 10-11, 2023 - Alvin Ailey Dance Theater - 405 W 55th St, New York, NY
The Dark Stone by Alberto Conejero, 2022
Inside the confines of a cell, one of these unseen moments of war unfolds. Rafael and Sebastián, two men from opposing factions of the Spanish Civil War, reveal secrets over the course of a single night, fighting against a daylight that will bring renewed horror and uncertainty. War separates and betrays, hurts and exposes. War repeats. Using projections and live video feed, AENY – Spanish Artist in New York’s The Dark Stone exposes the wars we battle within and questions those we fight with others.
Directed by Ignacio García-Bustelo
Projections Design – Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
Set & Costume Design – Leni Mendez | Lighting Design – Bruce A! Kraemer
Sound Design – David Lawson |
Producer – Allison Kadin
Cast: Zenon Zeleniuch and Andrew KoGolenok
Sep 23-Oct 2, 2022 - Repertorio Español, 138 E 27th St, New York, NY
Cosmicomics Multimedia Theater Play, Dixon Place - New York, 2014-2022
2014 NYIT Award Nominated for Outstanding Innovative Design (Projection Design, Videoart & Animations)
Dixon Place and The New Stage Theatre Company present world premiere of COSMICOMICS, an original multimedia theatre piece inspired by chapters of Italo Calvino's matchless novel of the same name, with projection design, video art and animations by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger.
Dixon Place Theater - New York - March 28 - April 19, 2014
New Stage Performance Space - New York - April 17 - 29, 2022
People Place Disruption in collaboration with Nimbus Dance, 2021
A flood of voices: untapped, unheard, enraged. New voices. Young voices. Stifled voices. Voices that stretch the confines of our worldview. Voices that uncover identity. Voices that are exquisite. In People Place Disruption, the artistic voices of a community unite to reflect on the past year. People Place Disruption is a multimedia project that illustrates a path forward – unveiled through collective creation.
Choreographers: Justin Cosme-Perez, LeighAnn Curd, Donterreo Culp, Derick McKoy Jr., Aanyse Pettiford-Chandler, Isabele Rosso
Visual Artists: Jennifer Brown, Isabelle Duverger, Myssi Robinson, Melida Rodas, Theda Sandiford, William Stamos, Rachel Therres, Joe Velez
Video Projection Artists: Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
Videographer: Luis Ribagorda
Online, April 28, 2021 - Nimbus Arts Center, October 23, 2021 - NJPAC, November 6, 2021
Black Henry by Luis H. Francia, 2021
Black Henry explores the profound consequences of a clash of cultures, when in 1521 Ferdinand Magellan and three Spanish ships make landfall in the Philippines. His Malay slave, Enrique, acts as the go-between the conquistadors and the islanders. However, Magellan’s disastrous attempt to colonize the islands not only complicates Enrique’s life but alters irrevocably the character and destiny of the archipelago. This innovative virtual dramatization mixes pre-recorded segments with live acting, as well as virtual scenography in an example of a new and innovative approach to online theater. A global cast of actors from New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Manila brings to life this epic story.
Directed by Claro de los Reyes, with creative design by Francis Estrada, Charles Reynoso, and Cynthia Alberto.
Live technical direction, online production design, and staging by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
Cast: John Roque, Alexis Camins, Artem Yatsunov, Criena House, Eloisa Cardona, Ybes Bagadiong, Victory Chappotin, Anthony Vaughn Merchant, James Rana, Chuck Lacson, Claro de los Reyes
Co-sponsored by NYU Sulo: the Philippine Studies Initiative and NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC) and Atlantic Pacific Theatre
Online, April 25-27, 2021
Falling Sky in collaboration with Nimbus Dance, 2019
Choreography by Nimbus Artistic Director Samuel Pott
Video Artwork and Projection Mapping: Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger
Music Composition: Qasim Naqvi
Dancers: Nimbus Dance Company
Live Music Performance: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
“Falling Sky” is a collaboration with Nimbus Dance and Qasim Naqvi. “Falling Sky” conjures the lofty, spiritual realm of the skies, addressing the implications of a changing climate and natural world to our psyche and consciousness.
It premiered at the New Jersey Performing Art Center - Victoria Theater on November 14, 2019 with live music from the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra.
New Jersey Performing Art Center (NJPAC) - Victoria Theater, November 14, 2019
BAM Fisher, Brooklyn, NY, March 20-21, 2020 (Postponed)
Nimbus Arts Center, NJ, April 29-May 1, 2022
Lines in the Dust by Obie Award Winner, Nikkole Salter, JCTC, 2019
Directed by Cheryl Katz
Projection Design & Visuals: Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger
Cast: Kerry Vivian Mantle, Thomas Grube, Tasha Arroyo
2010, Essex County, NJ. When Denitra loses the charter school lottery for her daughter, she must find another way to escape from their underperforming neighborhood school. The answer seems like a risk well worth taking, but may end up requiring a bigger sacrifice than she ever could have imagined. Set over a half-century after Brown Versus The Board of Education, LINES IN THE DUST questions how far we've come and more importantly, where we go from here. (Luna Stage Commission)
October 18 - November 2, 2019
Merseles Studio - JCTC
Prayog, Multimedia Dance Performance, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2019
with Three Aksha Ensemble
Projection Design and Visuals by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger
At its core, Bharatanatyam is a structural mapping of numbers on a surface. In this production, Rao creates a dialogue between the numbers and the inherent spirituality of the form, resulting in a movement tapestry. Prayog showcases both the mathematics in dance and the dance in mathematics. This production premiered at the York Wood Theatre, Toronto, Canada and was also performed at St. Matthews Auditorium, Halifax, Canada. PRAYOG also toured 13 cities in the U.S. during the summer of 2008. The Indian government then invited Three Aksha to perform the piece in Delhi, Pune, Ahmadabad, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai and in several cities of United States.
Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA, July 3, 2019
Jersey City Nutcracker Multimedia Dance Performance, Nimbus Dance Works, 2018-2019
Choreographed and directed by Samuel Pott
Video-mapping, animations, visuals, and projection design by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
"Nimbus Dance Works announces the ninth year of the company's annual holiday tradition: Jersey City Nutcracker. Jersey City Nutcracker tells the story of two children's urban holiday adventure leading them through fantasy, adversity and celebration and teaching them lessons about friendship and community along the way. Choreographed and directed by Nimbus Artistic Director Samuel Pott, this adaption of Tchaikovsky's holiday classic is performed by a stand-out cast of professional dancers from Nimbus Dance Works joined by youth and adults from the community as they portray familiar characters such as the Sugar Plum Fairy, the Rat King, and Drosselmeyer - all with a Jersey City twist! Amidst colorful sets, costumes, a brightly adorned tree, youth and adults alike are touched by this tale of Christmas spirit. This year’s performances feature an exciting new component: video mapping and projection design by award-winning video artists Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger."
Nimbus Dance Works - December 11-22, 2018 & December 13-22, 2019
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The Trojan Women Multimedia Theater Play, 2018
Written by Euripides, directed by Olga Levina
Scenography, video-mapping projections design by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
Jersey City Theater Center (JCTC) presents Trojan Women, a modern multimedia and multilingual adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy. The Trojan Women by Euripides, directed by Olga Levina, JCTC's Artistic Director.
A foreign army marches through the defeated city of Troy. They destroy every vestige of civilization left after a brutal war. They’ve slaughtered the men and captured the women, whom they brutally assault and separate from their children. Will the only survivors of Troy be massacred as well? Will the women be forced into marriage or slavery by their conquerors or will they be made to live like refugees in their devastated city, subject to the whims and desires of the occupying soldiers?
Jersey City Theater Center - 339-345 Newark Avenue, Jersey City - September 13-30, 2018
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Prologue Multimedia Theater Play, 2018
Written and directed by Maria Litvan
Performed by Catherine Correa and Ignacio García-Bustelo
Music Design by Nana Simopoulos
Projection Design, Videoart & Animations by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger
Prologue is a tribute to French philosopher, mystic, and social activist Simone Weil (1909- 1943). Simone Weil, described by Albert Camus as “the only great spirit of our times” and by Susan Sontag as “one of the most uncompromising and troubling witnesses to the modern travail of the spirit.”
Jersey City Theater Center - 339-345 Newark Avenue, Jersey City - September 13-30, 2018
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Aire, Visual Concert for Nomads in Poughkeepsie, Hudson Valley, NY, June 18, 2016
"Aire – Visual Concert for Nomads” is a cinematic, musical and poetic piece created and directed by Javier Moreno (composition, double bass) Laia Cabrera (filmmaker and video artist) in collaboration with Isabelle Duverger (animation and projection mapping) that travels through time and space, for those seeking permanently, never having the feeling of forever.
"Aire – Visual Concert for Nomads” is supported by NeighborWorks America and Arts Mid-Hudson, in cooperation with Poughkeepsie Open Studios. The project is made possible with funds from the Decentralizated Program, a rectand program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo, and the New York State Legislature, and administrated by Art Mid-Hudson.
The Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory - June 18, 2016 - 8 North Cherry St, Poughkeepsie
Night by Charles L. Mee, Theater for the New City - April 24th - May 10th 2015
2015 NYIT Award for Outstanding Performance Art Production
and Nomination for Outstanding Innovative Design (Projection Design)
Directed by Ildiko Nemeth / Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger - Projection Mapping, Visuals & Animations
Federico Restrepo - Lighting; Egle Paulauskaite - Costume; Galway McCullough - Fight Choreography
Cast: Beth Dodye Bass, Dana Boll, Adam Boncz, Kaylin Lee Clinton, Sophia O.C., Catherine Correa, Geraldine Dulex, Markus Hirnigel, Brian Linden, Galway McCullough, Brandon Olson, Jeanne Lauren Smith, Chris Tanner
World premiere of Night (Thyestes 2.0), a movement theatre piece written by Charles L. Mee and directed and designed by Ildiko Nemeth with projection design and visuals by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger. Inspired by Seneca's Thyestes, the piece combines sections of the classic tale with an equally dark modern vision. A whirlwind of vivid scenes bridges the torture, murder and cannibalism dogging ill-fated Tantalus to modern plagues both frightening and banal, from war crimes to YouTube vapidity.
Theater for the New City, NYC - April 24th to May 10th 2015
Ronensbourgh by Beatriz Cabur, IATI Theater - May 21th- June 7th 2015
Directed by Ignacio García-Bustelo - Projection Mapping, Video & Animations by Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger
Jennifer Sipila | Set Designer - Porsche McGovern | Lighting Designer - Alfredo Tauste | Sound Designer
Yuko Nakao | Costume Designer - Soraya Padrao | Line Producer
Cristina Ayon-Viesca | Assistant Director/Stage Manager - Cristina Perez Ballesteros | Production Manager
In Co-Production with AENY | Spanish Artists in New York
Cast: Claudio Bandini - Mateo Franco - Sara Gozalo - Begonya Plaza - Francisco Reyes
The Heiber family lives in a world that's rapidly crumbling, plagued by flawed and outdated social and political models. Meanwhile a group of aristocrats, led by Helmut Ronen, is creating the perfect city as the answer to all society's problems: RONENSBOURGH. Ronensbourgh is a very contemporary and highly experimental piece, written in a Heiner Müller's style. The play possesses relevant questions about identity, society and home; about the conception of those ideas, and the dislodging of the very things our society holds as important.
SINCRONIZADA at TALENT MADRID Festival, June 4 and 8, 2016 - Teatros Del Canal, Madrid, Spain
Finalist of Talent Madrid 2016 Festival, in the category "Theater" with Sincronizada and we have been invited to present it at the Teatros Del Canal in Madrid.
DIANA, ex-captain of the Synchronized Swimming team and Olympic medalist, retires in Kyrgyzstan to forget the swimming pool and the tragedy that that befell her team after the last Olympics.
Dirección: Laura Madera y Mar Gómez Glez / Dramaturgia: Mar Gómez Glez
Diseño de Video Arte, Proyecciones y Animación: Laia Cabrera e Isabelle Duverger
Diseño de Espacio Sonoro y Composición: Alberto Bernal
Coreografía: Teresa Jimenez Silva / Escenografía: François-Pierre Couture
Diseño de Luces: François-Pierre Couture / Performers: María Granada y Mery Cabezuela
June 4 and 8, 2016 - Teatros Del Canal - Calle de Cea Bermúdez, 1, Madrid, Spain
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Aire: Visual Concert for Nomads - Art All Night: Nuit Blanche DC, September 26, 2015
Cinematic, musical and poetic proposal that travels through cities, memories and time, exploring the nomadic nature of our lives.
Laia Cabrera: film director, filmmaker and video artist / Javier Moreno: Musical Director, Composer & double bass
Isabelle Duverger: projection mapping, visuals and animation
Musicians: Amy Kang, cello; Amanda Lo, violin; Roman Filiú, alto sax; George Dulin, keys; Jeff Davis, drums
Aire is a cinematic, musical and poetic piece designed as a site-specific visual concert created and directed by Laia Cabrera (filmmaker and video artist) and Javier Moreno (composition, double bass) in collaboration with Isabelle Duverger (animation and projection mapping), into an allegory of images traveling thought time and space and powerfully scored by an original musical suite for those seeking permanently, never having the feeling of forever.
Aire at Art All Night DC: September 26, 2015 - Bank of America Building, 722 H St NE, Washington, DC
Else y Henry Theater Play - video & projection mapping
Espacio Inestable, Valencia, Spain, September 7-11, 2017
A play about the love between two people that goes beyond the boundaries of life.
A play written and directed by Puy Navarro
Projection Mapping and Video Art: Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger
with Pep Ricart, Victoria Salvador, Manuel Valls, Leo de Bari, Bautista Duarte, Paco Trenzano, Ester Martínez
music by Sergio Martínez and Alexey León / Light design by Pelegrí Duart / Assistant director Nick Rogers
Costume design: Alex Vinash / Scenography: Ferrán Navarro
"Nuestras Voces" award by the MetLife Foundation, a US national writers competition.
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Natyashastra: the Oldest Surviving Stagecraft in the World, Philadelphia, PA, October 2016
The world's oldest stagecraft takes the stage in this vibrant performance of traditional Indian music and dance from Three Aksha, a group dedicated to preserving and promoting Indian culture. Natyashastra is the oldest surviving text on dance and music in the world and a project of this caliber is a first of its kind to the community in Philadelphia. The first half of the evening performance will be a music concert by Chakrafonics led by Praveen D Rao; followed by the dance performance of "Natyashastra." Experience the artistic direction of Viji Rao, whom the Philadelphia Inquirer has called a "theatrical visionary" along with choreography by Kiran Subramanyam and video mapping by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger.
artistic direction by Viji Rao / music by Praveen D Rao / choreography by Kiran Subramanyam
video projection design by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger (Laia Cabrera & Co)
The performance was made possible thanks to the support of National Endowment for the Arts, the Knight Foundation, the Leeway Foundation and Three Aksha.
JCC Auditorium at the KleinLife Center, Philadelphia, PA - October 30th, 2016
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Aire Multimedia Performance Concert, Tempietto - Rome, 2014
Aire is a multidisciplinary performance created by Javier Moreno in collaboration with Laia Cabrera, Isabelle Duverger and Isabel Cadenas Cañón, which combines contemporary Jazz with poetry, video-art and mapping, inviting the audience to experience an adventure through the senses, where love and traveling are intertwined in an inseparable way, telling the story of the ephemeral and the eternal.
Javier Moreno - Musical Direction, composition and bass
Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger - Film Direction, Projection Design, Videoart and Animation
Isabel Cadenas Cañón - Poetic Creation and Performance / Lucia Miranda - Assistant Stage Manager
Francesco Lo Cascio - Vibraphone / Francesco Diodatti - Guitar and Sound Effects
Marcello Allulli - Saxophone / Ermanno Baron - Battery / Prisca Amori - Violin / Matteo Scarpelli - Cello
Tempietto di Bramante - Roma, Italy - June 28, 2014
Sincronizada Theater Play - Scenography & Video projection mapping
Microteatro, Madrid, Spain, September 6-30, 2017
The ex-champion of synchronized swimming tries to forget the tragedy that occurred in the last Olympics but her duet partner doesn't allow her.
TEXT: Mar Gomez Glez
DIRECTION: Laura Madera
CAST: Goize Blanco and Ángela Chica
VIDEOART & VIDEO MAPPING: Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger
SOUNDSCAPE: Alberto Bernal
PRODUCTION: Laura Madera
TECHNICAL DIRECTION: Joseba Ibarra
Microteatro Por Dinero Calle Loreto y Chicote 9, 28004 Madrid, Spain
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Garden of Delights of Arrabal, Multimedia Theater Play, 2012
2013 NYIT Award Nominated for Outstanding Innovative Design (Projection Design, Videoart & Animations)
The New Stage Theatre Company updates Arrabal's tale of Lais' dazzling and bizarre journey in this mesmeric production directed by Ildiko Nemeth, with video projection designers Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger. Through a carefully crafted imaginary, the play depict some of the ways that today's culture - celebrity-obsessed to an unprecedented degree - and the preponderance of certain primal behaviors within that culture, may inform the audience's interpretation of Arrabal's premise.
Performing at The Theater for the New City, New York from November 15th to December 2nd, 2012
Prologue Multimedia Theater Play, 2013
Conceived and directed by Maria Litvan
Performed by Catherine Correa and Francisco Reyes
Music Design by Nana Simopoulos / Drawing by Isabelle Duverger
Video projections by Laia Cabrera & Co.
Prologue is a tribute to French philosopher, mystic, and social activist Simone Weil (1909- 1943). Simone Weil, described by Albert Camus as “the only great spirit of our times” and by Susan Sontag as “one of the most uncompromising and troubling witnesses to the modern travail of the spirit.”
CPR - Center for Perfomance Research, Brooklyn, February 24, 2014
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Resonant Streams: An Ancient Call, 2011
by LiquidBody Dancer / Music By Nana Simopoulos with Café Da Silva and Dawn Avery
Video Art Installation by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
Lighting Design by Stacy-Jo Marine / Featuring Emilie Conrad and Luisa Teish
"Resonant Streams: An Ancient Call" is a site-specific audience-interactive multimedia dance piece featuring a cast of ten dancers, three live musicians and two multimedia artists creating virtual costumes and set with a 5-video stream mapped in the space. Created for the the St. John the Divine Cathedral's The Value of Water series that includes a visual art exhibit, Resonant Streams hopes to provide an experience of ourselves as water, of our interconnectedness to all water everywhere and of our origins in the ancient primordial seas. When we immerse ourselves in water, we are able to release and recreate our form responsively as we connect through resonance to each other, to our ancient roots, to our planet and beyond and to creative potential.
Performing at the The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, New York, NY, November 11-12, 2011
Landscapes of the Soul with Nacho Arimany, A World-Jazz multimedia performance installation, Presented at La Mama Theater, New York from October 19-21, 2012
"Landscapes of the Soul" is a site specific installation-performance presented for this occasion with 20 canvases mapped in the space and three projectors and a live camera.
Landscapes of the Soul is the collaboration between composer and multi-instrumentalist Nacho Arimany, and Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger’s richly evocative Video-Art and Installation, with pianist Robert Rodriguez and bassist Michael O’Brien in a poetic journey and cinematic journey through Cross-cultural Sounds, Jazz and Video-Art that engages the audience in experiencing free interaction between different artistic disciplines, revealing both surprising and explosive shapes of creation.
Featuring Nacho Arimany Trio (New York) / Nacho Arimany - Ethnic Drumset, Guitar & Voice
Robert Rodriguez - Piano / Michael O'Brian - Bass
Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger - Projection Design, Video Art & Live Visuals
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Emilie, Theater for the New City, New York, November 5 to 8, 2015
Projection Design & Animations: Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
A play by Radegund Hain in an adaptation & translation by Markus Hirnigel and Stephanie Schmiderer.
Based on historical facts this play focuses on the life of Emilie Flöge, her pivotal role as designer and companion to Gustav Klimt. It reveals her influence on the famous painters Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, their struggle for artistic integrity and economic survival. The play evolves over four decades shedding light on the political changes of the time and its historical consequences.
Cast: Kaylin Lee Clinton, Stephanie Schmiderer, Markus Hirnigel, Tom Pennacchini, Tom Giordano
Lighting Design: Kat Meister; Stage Manager: Zulivet Díaz
Directed by: Katie Naka
Supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum
November 5 to 8, 2015 - Theater for the New City: Cino Theater - 155 1st Avenue, New York, 10003
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Pushkara projection design, KleinLife Center, Philadelphia, PA, July 1, 2017
The world's oldest stagecraft takes the stage in this vibrant performance of traditional Indian music and dance from Three Aksha, a group dedicated to preserving and promoting Indian culture. Natyashastra is the oldest surviving text on dance and music in the world and a project of this caliber is a first of its kind to the community in Philadelphia. The first half of the evening performance will be a music concert by Chakrafonics led by Praveen D Rao; followed by the dance performance of "Natyashastra." Experience the artistic direction of Viji Rao, whom the Philadelphia Inquirer has called a "theatrical visionary" along with choreography by Kiran Subramanyam and video mapping by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger.
Concept and Choreogaphy: Viji Rao / Music: Ajay Warriar / Costume Design and Lighting Design: Viji Rao
Video Projection Design: Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger
The performance was made possible thanks to the support of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
JCC Auditorium at the KleinLife Center, Philadelphia, PA - July 1, 2017
Walk Pasa Bouge (video performance concert), 2011
by Cia LORROJO, Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger
A 3-video stream mapped in the space, with aerial work and live sound. Walk Pasa Bouge is a live video concert-performance conceived by an international group of artists in various disciplines that sits somewhere between experimental music, film-making, theater-dance and digital art.
Laia Cabrera (visuals, Spain, based in New York) / Maite San Juan (silk aerial, Spain)
Brice Malahude (experimental music, France)
Performing at the Micro-Marché, whithin the Festival Hopla,
Festival of Circus Arts of Brussels, Belgium, Saturday April 16, 2011
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The Road To Happiness (Theater Play with two video streams)
Presented March 16-18, 2011 at the Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
A play written by Ursula Knoll / Directed by Markus Hirnigel / Stage Manager: Samantha Davis
Projection designed by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger (video, illustrations/Animations and mapping in space)
Actors: Ragini Bhaumik, Margi Douglas, Brady Kirchberg, Markus Hirnigel & Stephanie Schmiderer
THE ROAD TO HAPPINESS is a dark comedy or to quote the playwright a "hypercomedy" about 4 individuals caught up in "Reigen-like" relationships on their very own roads to happiness – in search of success, beauty, meaning, purpose and fulfillment. These four protagonists are accompanied by a narrator (Stephanie Schmiderer) who in the course of the play reveals herself as Magda Quandt unveiling dormant fascist traits in the characters and drawing frightening parallels to ideology of the Third Reich.
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Mapping Möbius (Multimedia Theater Play)
Presented December 2-19, 2010 at La Mama Theater (First Floor Theater), New York
A play produced by New Stage Theatre Company
Written by Colm O'Shea and Marie Glancy O'Shea / Conceived and directed by Ildiko Nemeth
Visual and projection designed by Laia Cabrera / Illustration and animation by Isabelle Duverger.
In the piece, an aging scientist, realizing his inquiries continually return him to a model of his own mind, devises a set of experiments that blur the distinction between his inner and outer worlds. New Stage Theatre Company (NTSC) made an auspicious La MaMa debut last season with "Oh, Those Beautiful Weimar Girls!," an evening of the music and dance associated with exotic dancer Anita Berber, who symbolized many the decadence of Weimar era Berlin.
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Claim Your Place at Festival Les Nuits Euphoriques, Tournefeuille, France, June 21, 2010
"Claim Your Place" is presented this time as a video-installation performance that sits somewhere between filmmaking, theater-dance, digital art and sound design. Outdoor video-installations with 16X5 meters length projected images, 3 streams of video and one live-feed camera. 6 performers and live-music. This project explores beauty, desire and violence.
Creation: Laia Cabrera and Nuria Legarda
Video recording editing and live visuals: Laia Cabrera / Performance: Nuria Legarda and Cie. Moebius
Still Photography and live Camera: Isabelle Duverger / Music and sound design: Erica Glyn
Installation Design: Laia Cabrera (NY), Isabelle Duverger (NY-PARIS), Nuria Legarda (BCN)
Claim Your Place at Festival Les Nuits Euphoriques, Tournefeuille, France, June 21, 2010
"Claim Your Place" is presented this time as a video-installation performance that sits somewhere between filmmaking, theater-dance, digital art and sound design. Outdoor video-installations with 16X5 meters length projected images, 3 streams of video and one live-feed camera. 6 performers and live-music. This project explores beauty, desire and violence.
Creation: Laia Cabrera and Nuria Legarda
Video recording editing and live visuals: Laia Cabrera / Performance: Nuria Legarda and Cie. Moebius
Still Photography and live Camera: Isabelle Duverger / Music and sound design: Erica Glyn
Installation Design: Laia Cabrera (NY), Isabelle Duverger (NY-PARIS), Nuria Legarda (BCN)
Playing Equality (multimedia theater play), 2009
Directed by Puy Navarro / Produced by Puy Navarro and Francisco Reyes
Video Art by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
Choreography by Kristi Spessard / Excerts from Death and the Maiden, by Ariel Dorfman
Performed by Puy Navarro, David Ponce and Francisco Reyes
Staged at Boricual College, November 23rd, 2009
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Until There (video concert performance), 2009
Laia Cabrera with For Feather and Isabelle Duverger
“Until There” starts with images and movement as a visual storytelling, a sensual journey of the imaginary world of the filmmaker and visual artist, Laia Cabrera. Four screens with two video streams will surround you with a unique visual experience of timelessness and human landscape. She uses a variety of media: projected imagery merging cinematic arts, dance, photography, theater, visual arts, writing etc... As a part of the performance, Laia Cabrera will be working with visuals and drawing animation by Isabelle Duverger projected live in conjunction with indie pop/rock For Feather. The band has mastered the art of turning the mundane into the marvelous. Quirky melodies pull rather than push the listener, keeping things light with spacious harmonies evoking the early Beatles.
Performed at Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY, June 8 and 18, 2009
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Walk Pasa Bouge (video performance installation), 2009
A 4-video stream with aerial work and live sound. Walk Pasa Bouge is a live video concert-performance conceived by an international group of artists in various disciplines that sits somewhere between experimental music, film-making, theater-dance and digital art.
Laia Cabrera (visuals, Spain, based in New York) / Maite San Juan (silk aerial, Spain)
Isabelle Duverger (live drawing animation, France) / Brice Malahude (experimental music, France)
Performed at MONKEY TOWN, Brooklyn, NY, Winter - Fall 2009
MARGARITA BLUE, Barcelona, Spain, March 2009
PIANOS, New York, NY, November 29, 2009
ISSUE PROJECT ROOM, Brooklyn, NY, December 13, 2009
THE GLASSLANDS Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, December 17, 2009 with guest Erica Glyn (experimental/rock)
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For Feather Concert (video-animation-performance-installation) 2008
Presented at BAM CAFE (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Brooklyn, New York
As part of The Next Wave Festival, November 1st, 2008
Live Visuals and videos by Laia Cabrera / Live Drawings by Isabelle Duverger
One projector with two streams of video and sound system.
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Dramaturgia Española (multimedia theater plays), 2010
A first peak at the work of award winning Iberian playwrights who are breaking new ground with their unique dramaturgy.
Company: Puy Navarro and Francisco Reyes (Equilicuá Producciones)
Directed by: Puy Navarro
Cast: Pietro González, Mercedes Herrero, Puy Navarro, Francisco Reyes
Projections designed by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
Fuga Mundi by María del Mar Gómez
Algo más inesperado que la muerte by Elvira Lindo
Animales Nocturnos by Juan Mayorga
Camas y Mesas by Emilio Williams
Spot by Antonio Zancada
Presented at the Cervantes Insitute, NYC, June 19, 2010
La jaula bajo el trapo (multimedia theater play), 2008
A play by Maria Negroni. 30 minutes
This play comes from a poem in dialogue that presents the loving duel to death between a mother and her daughter. Their interaction is represented, however, as the daughter’s recollections of disquieting images, emotions and passions repressed by her conscience, a relentless guard. The mental space is intervened by the voice of a man that brings the external world into the scene in the form of a a radio emission with fragments of the urban life and quotes of both high and popular culture.
Maria Litvan (Director & Performer) / Laia Cabrera (Sound and Video) / Isabelle Duverger (Animations)
Thursday, November 6 2008, Festival Teatro Vivo at the King Juan Carlos Center, NYC
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Liquid Body (Interactive multimedia Dance-music performance-Live video), 2006
Created by Caryn Heilman
Visuals by Laia Cabrera
performed at Merkin Concert Hall; Nightingale's May 27, 2006 and Holy Water Lower East Side; SUNY Purchase Dance Theater & Puffin Cultural Forum.
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Psyche (Theater play with trapeze, aerial dance and visual metaphors), 2004
Vertiginosas Islands Production
Written and directed by Maria Litvan / Music by Nana Simopoulos
Visuals set and videoprojection by Laia Cabrera
Video-Projection Mixing 3D animation, video, film captures and still images. This piece was created to be projected on 8 actresses creating a mental world in which the theater play with same title takes place.
Staged at the Context Studios, NY
Woman slightly on the edge (Multimedia theater play), 2005
Featuring Puy Navarro
Set Design and Video Art by Laia Cabrera
American Globe Theater, NY, Off Broadway
Some historic, Some hysteric (Multimedia theater play), 2004
Staged by the New Stage Theater Company
Videoart by Laia Cabrera and Maria Litvan
Video and computer generated projection that documents and animates the historical characters of this theater production on hysteria in art.
Staged at the NY Soto Velez Clemente Theater, NY
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Come and Go (Multimedia theater play), 2003
New Stage Theater Company, NY
Videoart by Laia Cabrera and Maria Litvan
Video and animated drawings projected to function as a setting for a theater production
Staged at the Walkerspace, Soho, NY
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