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Unlimited Productions teams up with JS Productions and Chauvet at Elements Festival

Octopuses served as the inspiration for the Water Stage at the Elements Music and Arts Festival, a preeminent event on the electronic and crossover music scene, held in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. Unlimited Productions was asked to take on the production direction for all stages.

The team was led by production director Jan-Maarten Luijnenburg, and together with productions manager Moshe Baskin, CAD designer Gijs Mulder and John Strycharz from supplier JS Productions they made the Octopus-inspired stage come to life with help from 32 Color Strike M motorized strobe-washes and fourteen Colorado PXL Bar 16 battens from Chauvet Professional.

The Elements Festival also featured a free-flowing Air Stage, located in lush Pocono woods on the festival’s spacious grounds. Enhancing the mood at this site were more Chauvet fixtures: six Color Strike M units and 24 Colorado 2 Solo RGBW wash lights.

About half of the artists who appeared at the festival brought their own LDs. The Unlimited Productions team, working with overall lighting director Renzo Cubas and other LDs, ran shows to the other acts. “The result at all stages was a combination of detailed pre-viz work, and our team delivering programming”, says Luijnenburg. “There was close collaboration between the artists’ LDs and our LDs in the advancing process.”

Looking at the Water Stage in particular, Luijnenburg explains: “We were asked to elevate the original design from last year and take it to the next level. We kept the head with projection mapping on the circular truss, but re-designed everything else, both the staging and LED, as well as all lighting. Our goal was to create an immersive feel once you are in the octopus without closing it off.”

“With a bigger center screen we kept a canvas for artist teams as a lot of their content needs a bigger space”, continues Luijnenburg. “By making sure we have the correct spacing between the vertical panels, it can feel like one massive screen, but it also allows more creative usage of the panels with specific content. By alternating the panels with the PXL pixel lines we were able to create the vibe we were aiming for.”

“The entire aura is really different for the Water and Aire stages”, adds Strycharz. “The Air stage needed to be mystical, minimal and intimate in the woods, while the Water stage needed to be in your face once you are in the octopus.”

(Photos: Chauvet Professional)

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