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Robert Juliat cyclights play key role in Cirque du Soleil-Disney production “Drawn to Life”

“Drawn to Life”, the first collaboration between Cirque du Soleil, Walt Disney Animation Studios and Walt Disney Imagineering, has opened in Disney Springs, Florida, where Robert Juliat Dalis 860s take centre stage with a 80 x 45-foot cyclorama.

In “Drawn to Life” the stage is transformed into a large animation table where drawings come to life. The art of classic Disney animation is reinterpreted through Cirque du Soleil’s innovative design and costuming, acrobatic performances and choreography and combined with all-new Disney animation and an original score. “Drawn to Life” is the new permanent show at Disney Springs, where the previous production from Cirque du Soleil ran for eighteen years.

Montreal-based lighting designer Martin Labrecque is using 58 Dalis 860 300 W LED asymmetric cyc/wall wash luminaires for the show. “I had used Robert Juliat Dalis LED footlights on an opera, but this was my first time using the Dalis cyclights”, he says. “For ‘Drawn to Life’ I had a giant cyc with two or more scenic layers in front of it to light. The cyc was the centrepiece of my design, and we built the rig around it.” About half of the Dalis 860 units are mounted on top of the cyc illuminating the massive backdrop like a soft box to backlight scenes. The rest of the Dalis fixtures are on the floor to light the cyc from the front.

Labrecque explains that classic multiplane animation, in which multiple layers of elements were shot on glass to give a three-dimensional look to animated scenes, inspired the lighting techniques: “There are four or five tracks in front of the cyc so we can layer scenic paintings just like shooting multiplane animation. We can light the paintings from the front so they are opaque or light them via the cyc so they are translucent. And we can change their colour.”

An additional Dalis 860 fixture is mounted on a moving truss so it can be positioned wherever needed. “We can do interesting gradients of colour with this light”, Labrecque notes. “In the ‘Dreams of Color’ sequence about the artists who painted the animation cells, we create a gradient of eight or nine colours on the giant cyc.”

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