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La Demence illuminated by Robe

Thomas Boets has been creating production designs incorporating lighting, set and video for Belgium’s gay techno party La Demence for several years, and has known the phenomenon’s mastermind Thierry Coppens for over 20.

Regular La Demence parties are staged throughout the year including three large weekenders that currently include a ‘main night’ in the 11,000 capacity Palais 12 at Brussels Expo centre. The most recent one coincided with Pride Weekend and Thomas Boets populated his lighting rig with around 200 Robe moving lights. Boets spec’d 24 x Robe LEDBeam 150s, 48 x LEDBeam 100s, 24 x BMFL WashBeams, 18 x Spiiders, 48 x Pointes and 48 x CitiFlex 48s.

Also instrumental in creating the visual aesthetic was regular La Demence lighting console operator, Fredrik Heerinckx. Thomas Boets hit on the idea of using a large road-construction red warning triangle filled with a 10 mm LED surface as the centrepiece, inspired by the event’s theme of ‘Hard Workers’. Stage lifts were incorporated into the floor for various dancer entrance/exit points.

This was flanked by LED columns along the back of the stage. Most of La Demence’s video content was created by Jeremy from video artists AlexEtJeremy, however it was controlled via Boets’ team and output via two 4k media servers connected to the GrandMA lighting console.

Eight lighting pods were hung at different heights above the stage, each rigged with six Pointes and six LEDBeam 100s. Forty-eight CityFlex48s were positioned around the triangle in an outline style. The 18 x Spiiders were on the over-stage trusses and provided a general stage wash, supported by eight Robe 600S Spots also used as top lights for one of the dance acts which involved artists performing on hoists flying up and down.

The 14 x LEDWash 600s were utilised as side lights. The LEDBeam 150s and the LEDBeam 100s mainly whizzed around for eye-candy looks going out into the audience “party lighting style”, with the LEDBeam 150s also key lighting some stage positions.

Boets and Heerinckx programmed the BMFLs into lots of fat-beam looks and effects. The trusses were all angled slightly to accentuate the three dimensionality of the stage space and above the audience, down the two long sides of Palais 12, were three trussing triangles (six in total) each rigged with LED PARs. Fredrik Heerinckx also used a GrandMA Fader Wing and a set of custom foot pedals for those moments when he needed more than two hands for the console.

L&L Stage Services were the rental company for the latest La Demence. L&L has invested steadily in Robe in recent years and now have several hundred of the brand’s fixtures in stock, all supplied via Benelux distributor Controllux. L&L also supplied audio for this show in Palais 12, with video hardware coming from Pixelscreen.

(Photos: La Demence)

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