Rome - Tempietto Di Bramante: Aire - Multimedia Performance Concert

Aire, Multimedia Performance Concert
Tempietto di Bramante - Roma, Italy
June 28, 2014 - 8:30pm

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 - Artistic Direction, composition and bass
Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger (Laia Cabrera & Co) - 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

 

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Laia Cabrera & Co wins 35th Annual Telly Awards for Art Direction!!

June 2014: Laia Cabrera & Co wins 35th Annual Telly Awards - Art Direction, for the video "An Ecosystem Transforming Healthcare Through Technology" for New York eHealth Collaborative

Opening video for New York eHealth Collaborative's 2013 Digital Health Conference in New York City: An Ecosystem Transforming Healthcare Through Technology
In the rapidly evolving Health IT world, our ecosystem is constantly changing, adapting, and readjusting to new connections, disruptions, and innovation.


Video Created by Laia Cabrera & Co. - Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger - Script by Julie Galdieri

Article in El Diario: "Projecting Dream All Around The World"

Proyectando fantasías alrededor del mundo
by Silvina Sterin Pensel/Especial para EDLP, originally published in El Diario - Jun, 1, 2014


Illustration by Isabelle Duverger

"Por un momento, se está en el mar abierto en compañía de medusas, peces y otras criaturas. Luego, caminando en la polvorienta superficie lunar, llena de cráteres y fisuras. Después, el entorno se vuelve cavernoso, predomina el rojo y lumínicas llamaradas devoran el lugar. Pero no es el océano, ni la luna ni el infierno: Es el Lower East Side, más precisamente Dixon Place, un pequeño teatro sobre la calle Chrystie que Laia Cabrera transformó en un lugar mágico durante la puesta de Cosmicomics, una pieza basada en la novela de Italo Calvino.

"Intervinimos el suelo y el fondo", comenta esta española recordando cómo obró semejante mutación valiéndose de animaciones, cámaras que proyectaban en vivo los movimientos de los actores sobre las paredes y paneles móviles.

El primer paso, explica, es siempre evaluar el espacio donde se desarrollará el espectáculo. Laia lo recorre de punta a punta: ¿Cuántas filas de asientos hay? ¿Cuántas plantas tiene el lugar? ¿Cuántas ventanas? Revisa los planos y le abre la puerta a su imaginación. "Es clave que mi fantasía sea viable técnicamente; es mi mayor desafío".

Largas sesiones

Luego de largas sesiones de brainstorming junto a su socia y roommate, la francesa Isabelle Duverger, Laia se anima a todo. "Creo sin un corset. Utilizo elementos del cine porque es mi formación pero me salgo de lo tradicional". Con su video instalación Shifting Gaze convirtió Times Square en una gigante plataforma multimediática donde los neoyorquinos reflexionaron en 360 grados sobre las elecciones, el deseo y la memoria, tres temas que la obsesionan. Muy pronto rumbeará a Italia donde proyectarán imágenes y animaciones sobre el Tempietto di Bramante, un imponente monumento renacentista en el corazón de Roma. "llevamos las maletas cargadas de proyectores y el montaje nos llevará dos semanas".

Laia llegó a NY en 1997 buscando un terreno más fértil que Barcelona para sus experimentos visuales. "En aquella época, allá, me miraban como bicho raro. Aquí todo era interdisciplinario; los artistas colaboraban unos con otros y se respiraba libertad y aventura".

La Gran Manzana, ciudades en Europa y Latinoamérica se convierten así en sus salas y Laia proyecta sus videos –la mayoría filmados por ella misma- en fachadas de edificios de todo tipo, altura y material. "Mucha gente ve vidrio y huye. Para mí, es todo lo contrario, no paro hasta encontrar cómo plasmar lo que imagino". 

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Picture by Lee Wexler

Picture by Lee Wexler

2014 Documentary for Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC

Video created by Laia Cabrera & Co. for the TDM textile and marketing program at FIT (Fashion Institute of technology of New York)

Directed by Laia Cabrera — Animations and Still Photography by Isabelle Duverger 

Textile Development & Marketing Department — Jay & Patty Baker School of Business And Technology — Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) — New York City, Spring 2014
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ARIDA DENIM: Amanda Johnston, Team Leader - Charlotte Bargoud, Atara Beller, Ipek Calisir, Hasan Caliskan, Wujong Farrant, Xiao Qing Lin
ARRIS DENIM: Katherine A Taylor, Team Leader - Danielle Alonso, Berna Arikan, Belen Colpan, Alessandra DiBernardo, Ayana Dixon, Turker Yucel
BLUE RUIN: Amber Härkönen, Team Leader - Duygu Dizerkonca, Deniz Eski, Ruby Li, Meghan Navoy, Caitlin Powell, Traci Reed, Eva Stahura
Blue Ruin would like to thank Max Steiner, Ben Ronne, Ronnie Kanhai and Bo Graham
STAND DENIM: Leyla Ipekci, Team Leader - Caroline Fortuna, Murat Ege Goktepe, Roni Halloran, Darshan Manghnani, Sibel Mitrani, Brynja Skjaldardottir
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Advisors to the Project:
Jeffrey Silberman — FIT, Professor and Project Director / Andrew Olah — Olah Inc., Senior Project Advisor / Amy Leonard-Emery — GAP, Inc., Project Development
Ed Barnes — Cotton Incorporated, Agricultural Advisor / Matt Durney — Nexgen Packaging, Labels and Packaging / Andrea Costa — SocialCode, Graphics and Branding
Laia Cabrera — Laia Cabrera and Co., LLC, Producer and Filmmaker / Isabelle Duverger — Laia Cabrera and Co., LLC, Animations and Still Photography
Barry Emanuel — Copen, Linings and Textiles / Jenny Fong — Patternmaker, Fit/Patternmaking / Amanda Ibrahim — Google, Inc., Social Media
Mark Messura — Cotton Incorporated, Strategy and Positioning / Buxton Midyette — Supima, ELS Cotton / Susan Miller — S. Miller Associates, Presentation Development
Kara Nicholas — Cone Denim, Fabric Development / Mimi Patel — Nexgen Packaging, Labels and Packaging / Emily Diehl — Nexgen Packaging, Labels and Packaging
Michael Morrell — Olah, Inc., Wet Finishing / Emily Olah — Olah, Inc., Production Management / Nancy Zhang — Otte, NY, Social Media
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Project Sponsors: Cotton Incorporated* - International Forum for Cotton Promotion (IFCP)
*This project is supported by the Importer Support Program of the U.S. Cotton Board and is managed by Cotton Incorporated.
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Jeffrey Silberman, Chairperson - Textile Development and Marketing Department
Ingrid Johnson, Assistant Chairperson and Past Chair - Textile Development and Marketing Department

Video created by LAIA CABRERA & CO. Film and Multimedia Productions — laiacabrera.com/company

Award of Distinction of the 20th Annual Communicator Awards 2014

And another award!!!
Award of Distinction of the 20th Annual Communicator Awards (2014) for Online Advertising Marketing for the campaign Patient Portal for New Yorkers (Video Created by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger - Laia Cabrera and Co)

Cosmicomics Reviews: Summary on our Projection Design, Videoart & Animation

Photo of the Week, TimeOut New York nº949, April 10-16, 2014 (Photo by Lee Wexler/ImagesforInnovation.org)

2014 NYIT Award Nomination for Outstanding Innovative Design (Projection Design, Videoart and Animations)

"The sight of the modern stage techniques using projected images, videos, colors, lights and shadows helps the viewers to understand the texts from the mouth of the actors."
"The very powerful scenes were those in which the actors were acting out the story live on stage while in the background projections appeared at the same time."
"An interesting, very spectacular show"
- Barát Tamás WBPI / New York, Breuerpress International, April 8, 2014

"There are many gorgeous projections that fill up this space. [...] Federico Restrepo’s lighting is an enormous part of the show, as are the lunar landscapes and other projections designed by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger." - Ed Malin, nytheater now, March 30, 2014

"I’ve seen a few of New Stage Theatre’s previous shows and have always been struck by the absolutely stunning visual elements" Katy Einerson, Culture Bot, March 31, 2014

"I let my mind float away on a drunken cloud and into the absurd non sequitur universe of Italo Calvino. I found myself delighted. [...] The music is playful and lovely like the shifting backdrops of the universe in freefall, a solitary studio, or a beach party." Aurin Squire, New York Theatre Review, April 8, 2014

"Just saw COSMICOMICS, where Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger have totally outdone themselves. Amazing! You.got.to.see.it!!!" - Laura Turegano, Associate Director, King Juan Carlos Center At NYU, April 4, 2014

"Visually extravagant beyond belief with a great cast, great costumes, and great fun! [...] GO see it!!" Jackie Rudin, Community Organizer, NYC, April 6, 2014

Laia Cabrera & Co Video Installations and Mapping Reel - 2014