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Moorea Festival lit with Robe GigaPointes

The Maatea (main) Stage at the 2026 Moorea Festival in France featured an array of international electronic and EDM artists and a lighting design by Loic Esparraga - of Paris-based design studio Mind - with forty-eight Robe GigaPointe moving lights at the core of the aesthetic.

The festival, which started in 2024 and is growing and developing each year, was staged in the gardens of the 11th-century Château de Grillemont at La Chapelle-Blanche, south of Tours in France’s Indre-et-Loire region.

Esparraga worked closely with Corentin Poirier, the festival’s creative/executive director and founder, who designed the Maatea Stage’s dramatic scenography, based on a tall LED screen setup, which, together with the lighting, was based on the imaginative thematic concept of fire and rock, with the goal of creating a striking contrast between day and night atmospherics.

During the day, the need was for subtle lighting to highlight the depth and overall scenic texture created by the blending of stage and lighting designs, allowing the stage geography to stand out. At night, the stage was transformed into a completely different space by the GigaPointe beams and their effects.

The fixtures were installed in six vertical columns of eight fixtures, equidistantly spanning the stage and delivering an impactful look and atmosphere, with video content featuring erupting volcanoes “reinforcing the visual universe”, explains Esparraga. He states that the organisers sought something unique and different in this design: “The main challenge was to create this new and different world, one that broke from a typical EDM festival stage design, looked distinctive and individual while still following a defined theme.”

This is the second time Esparraga - a lighting professional with ten years’ experience - has lit this event, and the second time he had used Robe’s GigaPointe fixture, officially launched in February at the ISE 2026 expo. Tours-based rental company Multi Scéni - the lighting, audio and video equipment supplier to this event - has recently made an investment in GigaPointes, which were delivered by Robe France.

Esparraga has been a long-time user of Robe’s MegaPointe fixtures in his designs. So, when he knew the GigaPointe would be available for this event, “it naturally stood out as the ideal choice”, he says, adding that the GigaPointe’s laser source output “ensured we could make a strong visual impact even over long distances”.

The layout of the six columns of GigaPointes was instrumental to utilising the entirety of the stage dimensions, both horizontally and vertically - a geometric harmony that provided a balanced visual presence of all elements, with the fixtures a natural integrator/interpreter between the scenic fabrics and video surfaces. The festival’s 12-metre-wide logo, installed at the top of the structure (fourteen metres up), was highlighted with two Robe iFortes - rigged on the Layher structure - and another two iFortes were used to front light the artists.

Two Maatea Stage artists - Timmy Trumpet and Trym - brought their own lighting operators this year, who also used the GigaPointes, and the rest were all lit by Esparraga and his team, including colleague lighting operator Lucas Bussy. They worked closely with video operator Bastien Sierakowski and SFX operator Paul Dubertrand under the project management of Charlène Rodrigues.

(Photos: Robe Lighting France/Your Wolf Agency)

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