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Garden of Delights of Arrabal, Multimedia Theater Play, 2012
Directed by Ildiko Nemeth
Projection Design, Video-Art and Animations by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
Choreography by Catherine Correa and Ildiko Nemeth in collaboration with the Actors
Lighting Design by Federico Restrepo - Original Score by Jon Gilbert Leavitt
Set Design by Ildiko Nemeth
Cast: Kaylin Lee Clinton, Belle Caplis, Brandon Olson*, Chris Tanner, Geraldine Dulex, Denice Kondik, Francisca Magalhães, Valerie Miller, Florencia Minniti, Devin Nelson, Emma Pettersson, Alexandra Pike, Juliana Silva, and Jeanne Lauren Smith

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 - Thu., Fri. and Sat. at 8pm / Sun. at 3pm

Resonant Streams: An Ancient Call (site-specific audience-interactive multimedia dance), 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
Apart of the Value of Water Exhibition (read publication)

"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,
Friday and Saturday November 11-12, 2011 at 7:45pm

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
Projection designed by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger (video, illustrations/Animations) and mapping in space)
Stage Manager: Samantha Davis
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. Erna (Ragini Bhaumik), the career driven Master of Business graduate turned housewife and mother; her friend Brigitte (Margi Douglas), proud owner of a designer store; Andreas (Brady Kirchberg), Erna's boyfriend who loves the outdoors and Reinhardt (Markus Hirnigel) the neoconservative businessman. 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.

Mapping Möbius (Theater play with projections)
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.

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

Premiered at Boricual College, New York, November 23rd, 2009
Performed at the festival React', Valencia, Spain, May 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, 7:00 p.m.
Festival Teatro Vivo at the King Juan Carlos Center, NYC

Life is a dream, (La vida es sueno) (multimedia theater play), 2008
by Calderón de la Barca
Produced by Puy Navarro and Francisco Reyes
Technical Director: Laia Cabrera

Staged @ Festival de Teatro Clásico de Almagro, July 19th, 2008

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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.

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

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Woman slightly on the edge (Multimedia theater play)
Featuring Puy Navarro
Set Design 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

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

A dos partos (Circus and video art) 2002
Produced and created by LORROJO Trapeze and theater Company, Argentina-Spain.
Codirected by Maria Litvan and Laia Cabrera and edited by Laia Cabrera
Video piece that investigates the interaction between the camera movement and the movement of two aerial dancers.

Inspiracion, (Multimedia theater) 2008
Visuals by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
December 5-7, 2008 at the Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center, NYC

Music and Sound Design

Tango por Ellos (dance theater) 2009
Produced by Valetango
Conceived and Directed by Valeria Solomonoff
Co-director Puy Navarro
Choreographed by Valeria Solomonoff and the Dancers
Artistic consultant Jorge Ali Triana
Costume consultant Chikako Iwahori
Light design by Philip Sandstrom
Sound mix: Laia Cabrera

The show takes place in a dance studio that functions as a rehearsal room by day and a “Milonga” (social gathering to dance tango) by night. When feminine and masculine mix on the dance floor, it leads to relationships that are at times suffocating, thrilling and contentious.
The work’s Spanish title, “Tango Por Ellos” plays with the multiple meaning of the word “por”, referring to Tango for them and by them.
Saturday & Sunday, October 24 & 25, 2009 at the (JCC) Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Family Auditorium, NYC

Obsession, (Theater play) New York, 2001
Produced by Vertiginosas (Islands)
Written and directed by Maria Litvan
Cast: Carola Des Saz-Orozco, Asha Oniszczuk, Zaola Uriarte, Elisa Morrison, Estrella Miro, Ken Lang, Chance Muehleck, Danny Velez
Music and sound design: Laia Cabrera
Painting: Montse Morreres
Stage Manager: Eliot Kennedy
"A celebration of broken hearts and their pieces. The city is New York. The year, two thousand and one. A dinner party is setting for eight different people to share their displacement and reveal the obsessions that make them who they really are..." Maria Litvan
Running time: 70 min.
Staged at the Frederick Loewe Theater, New York, May 14-21 2001

Borderline, New York, 2003
Produced by Vertiginosas (Islands)
Written and directed by Maria Litvan
Music and Sound design by Laia Cabrera
"Borderline is entering into an imaginary space in which everything "is the truth and nothing more than the truth," but at the same time "it is all a lie." It is a journey in which there are no clear limits, time and space are all at once (there is no past, no present, no future, no here, no there). It is a journey in which the human need to organize and understand things is left without explanatory cues; it is then when we are free to interpret it as we want or as we need; maybe as we do in "real" life." Maria Litvan