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Palle Palme selects Kinesys for GES tour

Automation and a Kinesys system were right at the heart of Palle Palme’s lighting and video design for Swedish pop supergroup GES’s 2022 tour, which culminated in a month-long residency at Stockholm’s Cirkus venue.

The band, featuring three of Sweden’s biggest singing stars, romped through a playlist of greatest collective and individual hits. Palme’s design included two circular lighting trusses - 10 metre and 3 metre diameters - that moved, plus a 5 metre diameter semi-circular LED screen which flew in and out at strategic moments. “Automation was an essential element of this show’s aesthetic”, comments Palme.

The two circles and the lighting on them interacted throughout the performance, controlled by automation operator Emanuel Hochholzer using Kinesys Vector control. The Kinesys system, which also featured Elevation drives working with eleven 500 kg Exe hoists, was specified and supplied by Sören Durango at Sundsvall based Scandinavian Rigging Service.

Palme wanted to use the three-dimensionality of automation to change the shape and architecture of the stage space. With over forty cues in the Vector console, this started subtly, building up to more intense moves towards the end of the set with the circles pitching dramatically.

“It is important to make everything fun in this show, so having the ability to move the whole rig offered so much more scope for engaging the audience and keeping them guessing as to what might happen next”, says Palme.

The LED screen was used in around a third of the songs in the set, so when not in use, it flew out of the way. Both circle trusses were rigged using four 500 kg Exe hoists running with Kinesys Elevation drives with another three deployed for lifting and lowering the LED screen truss.

(Photos: Louise Stickland/Paul Clarke)

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