Aktuelle News & Schlagzeilen

Gil Perron calls on over 400 Chauvet fixtures to celebrate Montreal Pride

At this year’s edition, Fierté Montréal (Montreal Pride Festival), one of the largest pride fests in the world, gathered 750,000 visitors from all over the world, over 10,000 participants in 120 events, and 428 Chauvet Professional fixtures on the massive main stage and grounds.

The lighting and production design for the 11-day event in Montreal’s Olympic Village was created by Gil Perron and transformed the main stage and sprawling site in and around Olympic Village into a visual wonderland that surprised and delighted at every turn with its bold color combinations and lively scenic elements.

Working with a team including site LD Kevin Beland Laflamme, master electrician Penelope Tremblay (assisted by Christian Mercier and Ryan Germundson), Perron used his massive rig to conjure up a fast-moving stream of fresh and original images that spoke to the “express yourself” theme of the event. Casting aside the familiar prohibition about using too many colors at once, he and his team dipped into the wells of their collective imagination to ring the main arena and wash the stage with a rainbow of hues.

The explosion of colors didn’t result in muddy confusion either, Perron ensured that all parts of his broad palette stood out by separating them and using variously shaped set pieces to create demarcations. Larger scenic pieces weren’t merely lit at this festival; they were animated with distinctive colors that are rarely found in ordinary palettes. For example, a massive high heeled shoe outside the stadium glowed against the starry night sky in a unique shade of lilac purple.

Helping to bring this vision to life outside the stadium were 48 Colorado Q40 IP65-rated RGBW rectangular wash lights. Over at Pride Park, 196 Colorado Quad Par fixtures and 44 Ovation Reve E-3 IP full spectrum fixtures ensured that vibrant colors flowed everywhere. At the main stage, where shows were run by LD Fahed Hamammi, Perron flew his fixtures on a series of four semi-circular truss structures, measuring 60, 40, 32 and 24 feet in diameter. He arranged these structures in a horseshoe configuration in order to “offer and open arms visual and signify inclusion”.

The flown fixtures made it possible to create a wide variety of looks with lush washes, bold aerials, evocative light angles - and, of course, colors, colors and more colors. They included 64 Rogue Outcast BeamWash 1 units, 48 Maverick Force 1 Spots, sixteen Maverick Force 3 Profiles, eleven Maverick Storm 2 Profiles, fourteen Colorado PXL Bars, twelve Colorado Q40 washes and nineteen Colorado Quad Pars.

(Photos: Chauvet Professional/Yan Di Fabio/Fierté Montréal)

www.chauvetprofessional.com

© 1999 - 2025 Entertainment Technology Press Limited News Stories