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Over 250 Robe fixtures for 2015 Vendimia Festival

Robe moving lights were chosen to light the enormous stage and set that was the ‘central event’ for the 2015 Vendimia grape harvest festival at the Frank Romero Day Greek Theatre in Mendoza, Argentina. The Robes - delivered to the event by Tecnica Vidal with the assistance of OVA Iluminacion and Prisma Luces - included 12 BMFL Spots, 66 MMX Spots, 12 Color Beam 2500E ATs, 14 MMX Wash Beam, 66 Pointes, 56 LED Wash 600s, 24 LED Wash 1200s, 40 City Flex 48s, 60 LED Force, 18 LED PARs and four City Skape Xtremes.

These, together with some 526 conventional lights and 6 follow spots were deployed all over the massive stage -designed by Alejandro Rodriguez - comprising nine different areas, including one water stage. Trussing superstructure was hung on a huge crane - with a 65 metre reach arm, and all lights on the rig were controlled via Lumen Radio wireless DMX data links - an option that comes as ‘standard’ on many of Robe’s latest Robin series fixtures.

The BMFL Spots were positioned along the front line of the central stages. The position was chosen so the units could be utilized for powerful back lighting for the stage where all the international artists performed, and project onto the walls behind. The stage set reflected the local landscape and was inspired by the concept that the environment is in a constant state of flux and change, especially throughout the grape growing cycle. The challenges for the lighting scheme included sometimes having to illuminate up to 1000 performers at any one time - including musicians, dancers, singers, chorus members, etc. - for some elements of the daily and nightly entertainment across the 4 action-packed days of celebrations, which were attended by more than 100.000 revellers.

In addition to the central show, each night was dedicated to a specific musical genre and rhythm - romantic melodic was played by Axel, national Rock‘n’Roll from Ciro & Los Persas, bachata by Romeo Santos and La Mosca tse tse pumped up the volume with ska. To highlight all the different styles, the lighting needed to have enough scope for each headlining artist had to have their own unique, fabulous and different looking show. All the main artists brought their own lighting designers, and it proved the first time that any of them had used Robe’s BMFL Spot in a live context.

Photos: Daniel Lema

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