Nov 29th, 2009: Walk-Pasa-Bouge at PIANOS, New York

Silk-Sound-Visuals Performance
by Cia Lorrojo (Maite San Juan and Brice Malahude)
Visuals by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger





Photography © 2009 Isabelle Duverger

Nov 23rd, 2009: Playing Equality at Boricua College, NYC

“Playing Equality” is a multidisciplinary media art show, dance and theater created by artist Puy Navarro and commissioned by the Generalitat Valenciana, as the International University Forum 2009 held in November 2009 in New York, entitled “Eradication of Poverty: A challenge for all universities in the world."
The piece starts with videos of the visual artists Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger, including fragments of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The show continues with a section of contemporary dance theater by Puy Navarro and Argentinian actor/dancer David Ponce. The choreography is inspired by the events described in the famous play “Death and the Maiden” by Ariel Dorfman. In the play, Paulina is a woman who was brutally tortured years ago during the era of dictatorship in her country. With the passage of time, and in a democratic political transition, Paulina believes she recognizes her tormentor. The moral dilemma arises when Paulina feels the impulse to do to her tormentor the same things that he had done to her. Finally, after the dance, a scene from “The Death and the Maiden” is performed by Puy Navarro and Francisco Reyes.

Directed by Puy Navarro
Videoart by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
Sculpture by Julio Quaresma
Cast: Puy Navarro, David Ponce, Francisco Reyes

June 8th, 2009: "Until There" by Laia Cabrera, For Feather and Isabelle Duverger

June 8, 2009: “Until There” with Laia Cabrera with For Feather
Catalan Video-Artist performs live with Brooklyn Indie Rock Band For Feather and French Illustrator 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.

May 29th, 2009: "Is There An Edge Of Belief" at festival Femenino in Jaen

"Is there an edge of belief?" is a film about the relation, uncommonness and beauty of innocence-belief. Where are the limits of our understanding of the emotions, how do we relate to the others and how do we handle the differences? Through the eyes of a little girl, its the world that we rediscover, the look at adulthood is biased and share its reality with elements of fairy-telling. As the images unravel, the density of the emotion grows, the gravity changes, and we are trapped into a world that the child in us understand, still. So the shards of stories we have put together collide here, reflecting, and evolving like the act of memory itself. All objects and images are more than what first meets the eye, just as the visual imaginary evolves into a whole world of humanity.

Feb 26, 2009: Silk-Sound-Video-Drawing Performance @ Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NYC

Performance by Maite San Juan (Silk Aerialist), Laia Cabrera (Video-Artist) Brice Malahude (Sound Designer-Musician), Isabelle Duverger (Graphic Designer-Photographer)




Courtesy of Clemence Rasigni


Courtesy of David Navas

Illustrations for Walk-Pasa-Bouge



Pictures for Walk-Pasa-Bouge

November 13, 2009: Walk-Pasa-Bouge Performance at the Monkey Town

 

"Walk Pasa Bouge" (video performance concert)
by Cia LORROJO, Laia Cabrera & Isabelle Duverger

A 3-video stream with aerial work and live sound.
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.

Artists:
Brice Malahude (experimental music, France), Laia Cabrera (visuals, based in New York), Maite San Juan (silk aerial, Spain), Isabelle Duverger (live drawing animation, France).

Poster design and photography © Isabelle Duverger

Nov. 1st, 2008: For Feather/Laia Cabrera @ BAM Cafe

Performance of For Feather with Live Visuals by Laia Cabrera
Animations by Isabelle Duverger