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WI Creations supports Eurovision Song Contest

WI Creations supports Eurovision Song Contest
WI Creations supports Eurovision Song Contest

WI Creations supplied four of their heavy duty TP06 stage elevators to the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) production which was headed by technical directors Ola Melzig and Tobias Åburg. The event, enjoyed by over 200 million, was staged at the Altice Arena in Lisbon.

 

The four TP06 lifts were installed under the stage which was part of the set designed by Florian Wieder, and were used for two of the 43 finalists, Austria’s third placed Cesár Sampson and Belarus contestant Alekseev.

 

The project was designed and co-ordinated for WI by Geert Stockmans and tech’d and looked after on site by Mateo Marastoni working alongside Robert Roos who was the production’s props and special staging co-ordinator.

 

One TP06 lift was positioned centrally beneath the stage and surrounded by the other three, all of them supporting a trussing structure with a 6 metre triangular section of decking on top. This top section split in two - donut style - with a central cut out that could elevate independently on the middle lift.

 

For Austria, the whole wedge section lifted up several metres in a dramatic moment with the artist on top to reveal a set of vertically rigged LED battens below, on the underside. Chasing and twinkling, these gave the appearance that the artist was floating in the air as the platform rose up.

 

While the Belarus entry didn’t make it through the first semi-final (also televised) this year, it was not before a rousing performance by Alekseev who was raised up on the centre TP06 lift dramatically back lit by multiple beam lights. The lifting section of the stage was also used briefly by one of the interval acts.

 

(Photo: Joan Lyman)

 

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