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Painting with Light creates show design for Holiday on Ice ‘Believe’

Painting with Light creates show design for Holiday on Ice ‘Believe’
Painting with Light creates show design for Holiday on Ice ‘Believe’

Belgian design practice Painting with Light has created the set, lighting and video designs for the new Holiday on Ice ‘Believe’ show. Painting with Light’s Luc Peumans imagined the set working alongside his team of Paco Mispelters who created the lighting and Michael Al-Far who designed the video.

 

The set is 28 metres wide, comprising multiple layers, platforms and moving parts including two prominent stage elevators, synthetic ice ramps plus a DJ booth that tracks out over the main ice. Almost all of the set and its peripheries like the two large fans and water screen feature over the ice is clad in curveable 9.3 mm LED video panels supplied by CT.

 

Above the set, snaking around the roof is a network of inflatable scenic tubes - made by Airworks - which make up pipes for the underworld scenes, adding to the overall proto-industrial feel and extending the set 46 metres over the ice.

 

Also flown above the ice are three 3 metre wide fans housed in LED illuminated surrounds, with 8 x inbuilt Martin Rush Beams for effects and video surface on the under-belly and sides - which becomes filled with graphics. One of these scenic fans piece is fitted with a circular water curtain from Unlimited FX, complete with integral LEDs that were specified by Painting with Light.

 

The set and automation - including stage elevators and flying DJ console - was fabricated by WIcreations from Heist-op-den-Berg in Belgium.

 

Paco Mispelters’ starting point for the lighting design was the set, the story of the two worlds and the need to work closely with the video content. He constructed the cues according to the storyboard using around 150 moving lights, mostly Martin, delivered by Focus Holland and positioned on a network of trusses installed in the roof of each gig.

 

Fixtures included MAC Quantum Spot LED luminaires, plus MAC 700 Washes and MAC Aura LED washes for the floor and side lighting. Some MAC Auras are also built into the set at the top of the stage elevators and the light performers standing on the various platforms. Substantial amounts of LED PARs are dotted around and utilised to light the platforms and the set elements that are not covered in video.

 

Mispelters also added plenty of atmospherics including Chauvet Geyser vertical smoke jets which create a CO2 effect and Le Maitre Spraymaster non-propane DMX controlled fire shooters, all running into the GrandMA2 console together with all the lighting.

 

Martin MAC 3 Profiles were chosen as the five follow spots, with handles mounted on the fixture and the operator in control of the dimmer and iris functions with all the colour and on/off cues coming from the GrandMA 2 which was programmed by Arjan Grootenhuis. Moving and still images are a vital part of the show narrative and of imagining the different worlds, and the physical design includes approximately 220 square metres of the 9.3 mm CTG9 bendable panels.

 

Michael Al-Far spent around five months creating the content, a process that involved commissioning a concept artist to sketch out the two worlds according to the brief and mood-board, after which the content production process became fully energised. A 3D modeller then translated the 2D sketches into 3D using Cinema 4D and as the scenes started to take shape, Al-Far started texturing and lighting the material.

 

All the edited materials are stored and programmed by Painting with Light’s Katleen Selleslagh in a Coolux Pandora’s dual media server supplied to the production by Painting with Light, together with a wireless player with DMX link in the DJ booth. The show is triggered via SMPTE timecode.

 

(Photos: Morris MacMatzen)

 

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Painting with Light creates show design for Holiday on Ice ‘Believe’Painting with Light creates show design for Holiday on Ice ‘Believe’

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