Monday, December 3, 2012

Time Out New York: Photo of the week!


"Photo of the week: Garden of Delights
New Stage Theatre Company's Ildiko Nemeth directs a multimedia revival of Spanish playwright Fernando Arrabal's 1968 look inside the psyche of a disturbed actress."
- Time Out New York # 886 (November 29 - December 5, 2012)

Photo by Lee Wexler, Images For Innovation


Saturday, November 24, 2012

Nominated for the New York Innovative Theater Awards!

Dear Friends,
The play Garden of Delights written by Fernando Arrabal has been nominated for an NYIT (New York Innovative Theater) Award,
and with Laia Cabrera, I have the great honor of having been nominated for Outstanding Innovative Design with our Projection Design Video-Art and Animations for the Play.

For this award, YOU CAN VOTE, and I would be more than please if you did so!
This is the link to follow the instructions and be able to vote:
http://www.nyitawards.com/vote/ballota.asp

Thank You!
All the Best,
Isabelle


Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Garden of Delights: first reviews and pictures

GARDEN OF DELIGHTS
at the Theater for the New City - Joyce and Seward Johnson Theater
155 1st Avenue (between 9th and 10th street) New York, NY 10003
From November 15th to December 2nd
Thurs - Sat 8pm | Sun 3pm (No performance Thanksgiving Day) 
Reservation: click here


First and foremost, a message from Fernando Arrabal himself:
"j'ai trouvé  votre  réalisation fantastique , originale , colorée et très ryhmée … un vrai travail inventif, une authentique recherche de la polysémie du texte... et de sa mise en scène… je crois que Jérôme Bosch lui-même aurait apprécié cette approche, sa fantaisie à la fois maîtrisée et apparemment débridée… les vidéos... j'aimerais qu 'un spectacle de cette qualité puisse connaître le succès qu'il mérite… félicitez toute l'équipe encore une fois... je garde un souvenir ému de ma soirée... "
Translation: "I found your realization fantastic, original, colorful and very rhythmical... A truly inventive work, an authentic research of the text polysemy... and of its staging... I believe Jerome Bosch himself would have enjoyed this approach, his fantasy at once controlled and seemingly unbridled... the videos... I would love that a show of this quality that it meets the success it deserves... Congratulate all the team once more... I have fond memories of my evening..."


"DARK AND DELIGHTFUL" Stage and Cinema


"many of the time/space transformations are accomplished with the aid of video images projected onto several flats set up on the stage (projection design, video-art and animations by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger). It’s an interesting concept, creating multi-layered, colorful worlds." - Stage and Cinema

"It is a stimulating, modern production, full of techno music and video projections, including snippets of Bosch's famous painting The Garden of Earthly Delights." - nytheatre.com


"The projections and videos by Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger make for an incredibly colorful and sensual performance. Scenery changes every few seconds, and video projections show Lais's soliloquies from many different angles." - nytheatre.com


"The designers, Ildiko Nemeth, Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger, provide a simple clean set of flats with marvelous projections playing on them, including Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, and a huge egg as a prop, and there is a terrific soundscape with music by Jon Gilbert Leavitt. Lighting by Federico Restrepo enhances everything. Nemeth has directed with great timing and synchronization of sound, projections and acting, and she can capture you into the strange Arrabal’s surreal universe: an artistic adventure well done." - Lively-Arts.com


This play has been nominated for the NYIT awards


From November 15th to December 2nd at 8:00 p.m
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm
Sundays at 3pm
Reservation: click here
Box Office: 212.868.4444
Tickets: $18 General Admission

Directed by Ildiko Nemeth
Set Design 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
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
(*These Actors are appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association)
Principal Administrator: Fabiyan Pemble-Belkin
Press Agent: DARR Publicity

Saturday, October 27, 2012

September 2012: Opening and Closing Credits animation for feature film "White Alligator"

Animation created by Isabelle Duverger

"Juanita Perez is on the quick road to success.
Her only problem: She's white."

Screenings:
September 21, 2014:
San Francisco Latino Film Festival

June 17-21 2014:
Bled Film Festival, Lake Bled, Slovenia (Wishing Bell Award for Best Actress: Viviana Leo)

May 10 2014:
The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival

November 15-15, 2013:
International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival (sponsored by NBC/Telemundo)


WHITE ALLIGATOR (2012)

STARRING VIVIANA LEO
WITH ALEXIS SUAREZ, ALEXIS BRANDT, JENNIFFER DIAZ, KIMBERLY HÉBERT GREGORY, FRANCIS JUE, JOSEPH SIKORA, ADAM SCARIMBOLO, JAMIE JACKSON, ELISE SANTORA, STUART LUTH, TRISTAN LAURENCE, ISMAEL CRUZ CÓRDOVA, ELISABETH A. FURTADO, ADAM MANSELL

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY ERIC BRANCO
EDITED BY PILAR RICO
MUSIC BY THE HILLARY STEP
ANIMATIONS BY ISABELLE DUVERGER
WRITTEN BY VIVIANA LEO
DIRECTED BY RAQUEL ALMAZÁN
PRODUCED BY VIVIANA LEO AND STUART LUTH










Tuesday, October 23, 2012

November 2012: Garden of Delights by Arrabal at the Theater for the New City




Theater for the New City - Joyce and Seward Johnson Theater
155 1st Avenue (between 9th and 10th street) New York, NY 10003

From November 15th to December 2nd at 8:00 p.m.

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.

Garden of Delights showcases the vivid and surrealist imagination of controversial Spanish playwright Fernando Arrabal, whose work explores complicated themes of sexuality, violence, good, and evil. Lais, a celebrated but troubled actress, fields calls from a live studio audience while ensconced in her palatial home. The lines between reality, dream and memory are blurred as Lais interacts with figures from her past and with Zenon, an ape-like beast that she keeps in a cage but cannot quite control.

NSTC has collaborated on different productions with Spanish filmmaker and video artist Laia Cabrera in creating multimedia sets with animator Isabelle Duverger, costume designer Egle Paulayskaite, lighting designer Federico Restrepo, choreographer Catherine Correa, composer Jon Gilbert Leavitt and ensemble actors 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.

Opening: November 15, 2012 at 8pm in presence of the playwright Fernando Arrabal.

From November 15th to December 2nd at 8:00 p.m
Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm
Sundays at 3pm
Reservation: click here
Box Office: 212.868.4444
Tickets: $18 General Admission

Directed by Ildiko Nemeth
Set Design 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
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
(*These Actors are appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association)

Principal Administrator: Fabiyan Pemble-Belkin
Press Agent: DARR Publicity

Garden of Delights is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
This program is supported, in part, by Spain Culture New York- Consulate General of Spain: a member of the network Spain Arts and Culture.
Cage provided by HumanCages.com

more picture - more reviews



illustration and poster by Isabelle Duverger

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

October 2012: Landscapes of the Soul performance installation

La Mama presents:
LANDSCAPES OF THE SOUL - A World-Jazz multimedia concert

Featuring
Nacho Arimany Trio
Nacho Arimany - Ethnic Drumset, Guitar and Voice
Robert Rodriguez – Piano
Michael O’Brian - Bass
Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger
Projection Design, Video Art and Live Drawing

At LA MAMA – THE CLUB
74A East 4th Street (btw Bowery and 2nd Ave) New York, NY 10003
October 19 – October 21, 2012
19th and 20th at 10pm, Oct 21, 5.30pm
Reservations: http://lamama.org/the-club/landscapes-of-the-soul

Landscapes of the Soul is the Collaboration between composer and multi-instrumentalist Nacho Arimany and Video-Artists Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger in a poetic journey through Cross-cultural Sounds, Jazz and Video-Art.

By using an array of musical traditions from around the world, composer and multi-instrumentalist Nacho Arimany offers a poetic expression that engages the audience in experiencing free interaction between different artistic disciplines with pianist Robert Rodriguez and bassist Michael O’Brien, in conjunction with Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger’s richly evocative Video-Art. The incorporation of Jazz , Video-Art and Live Digital Drawing opens the space for tradition to be transformed and actualized by a new experience of collective creation. The result is a poetic and cinematic journey that envelops the viewer, revealing both surprising and explosive shapes of creation.

Poster Landscapes of the Soul

Design for the installation

Installation - Work in progress

Installation - testing with visuals (not yet mapped in space)


Installation with mapping done!

At the entrance of La Mama, East Village, NYC


In the patio of La Mama

Video coming soon!...

Poster, Illustration and photography by Isabelle Duverger

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

July 2012: NYeC "How the SHIN-NY Makes Life Better" Campain



The Statewide Health Information Network for New York (SHIN-NY) is a network of information transmitted between users. Like the internet, as more users connect, it grows, evolves, and becomes more secure, efficient, and easy to use.



Created by Isabelle Duverger
Sound Design by Laia Cabrera
Original Script by Caroline Dworin / NYeC

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

My first exhibition: The Vortex by The Six Betweens Art Collective

THE VORTEX - A Solstice Celebration and Art Gathering
Friday June 22, 2012
The Six Betweens Art Collective
112 W. 138th Street, #3F, New York, NY 10030

Join our 'beyond art' event, with visual art, music, drinks and community
The June Solstice is always so special for us, with birthdays, anniversaries... This year, 2012, its energy is going to be particularly powerful, and we'd like
to honor its transforming power by hosting a creative art event in which each attendant can co-create, sing and share at will.
Presenting work by Raquel Berzosa, Laia Cabrera, Isabelle Duverger, José Villalón, David Allen and more!

Although the event is open to all, there is a $10 suggested donation for drinks, food, and production costs


Presenting there the 4-piece illustration series Paisley and the videoart piece Inx-Mix with Laia Cabrera:
Rebirth, 2011
In the exhibition, June - August 2012

Friday, June 15, 2012

2010-2011: Performances with Nacho Arimany

At the Tea Lounge, Brooklyn, New York

At BAM cafe, Brooklyn, New York

At Zora Art Space, Brooklyn, New York


Poster designed by Isabelle Duverger

Monday, June 11, 2012

June 2011: Fallen River animation

Clearly inspired from the opening scene of Prometheus :)


Animation by Isabelle Duverger