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Belgian Sunrise festival lit with Robe

The trance festival Sunrise celebrated its tenth anniversary with more stages, artists, and production values at its waterside site of De Lilse Bergen near Lille, Belgium. Lighting designers Kristof Blancquaert and Mattijs van Looy of design studio KB Lighting lit all six stages with the help of some Robe moving lights.

As a freelance LD, Blancquaert has been involved with lighting Sunrise for some time. He designed the rig for this year’s Main stage which included fourteen Robe MegaPointes, eighteen Spiider LED wash beams, six T1 Profiles, twenty T2 Profiles and ten Tetra2 moving LED battens together with blinders, strobes, and deco lights. Eye-catching décor was designed by Roxxi, and the main stage video elements were also integrated with the scenography.

The MegaPointes were used as beams and effects. They were positioned on the sides of the centre section of the stage above the set arches. The T1 and T2 Profiles were used for key light. While not so much key’ing is needed for a single DJ set and especially for trance DJs who often prefer to operate in the shadows, these lights were also used as fillers and to illuminate specific areas of the stage and set.

The T2 Profiles were rigged along the stage wing trusses flanking the central stage section. They helped accentuate the width and scale of the stage area. All the lights were used for flying out into the 10,000-audience arena and connecting them with the music action. The Spiiders were rigged along the top of the band stage - centre section - and the Tetra2s were there as well, upstage on the deck. Main Stage lighting was operated by Kevin Cornelis using a GrandMA3 console.

The Hardstyle stage also featured Robe movers with 24 Pointes plus strobes, blinders, and deco lights, with the Pointes distributed over five towers. Structures were designed by Robin Pelckmans, and lighting was operated by Niels Baten using a ChamSys console. The Dome stage was a tented venue with a similar technical set up to Hardstyle, again featuring 24 Pointes for the moving lights, operated by Yannick Steves using a GrandMA3. The three smaller stages all had Robe LEDBeam 150s on their lighting rigs.

All lighting kit for the festival stages was supplied by Belgian lighting company Lust for Live.

(Photos: Keyani Immens/Mats Palinckx/Philippe Wuyts)

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