MEXICO CITY – Chart-topping, multi-award-winning and massively popular Mexican singer Ana Gabriel hit the road on her “Estamos A Tiempo” (We Are On Time) world tour last year at the National Auditorium in Mexico City, a campaign that continues internationally throughout 2019, with another spectacular lighting and visual design by Felipe Serey, one of Chile’s leading LDs.
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Felipe has worked with the artist for six years, and the lighting specification for the current tour has over 150 Robe moving lights – 60 x MegaPointes, 40 x Spiiders, 48 x Spikies, two BMFL Spots and three BMFL WashBeams – on the lighting plot.
Recently Ana Gabriel played a show at the Movistar Arena in Santiago de Chile where the full Robe rig was supplied by a local rental company … and Felipe was extremely proud to be able to deliver the show in his hometown!
The design was based around creating a nice balance of technology to support and reinforce Ana Gabriel’s charisma and her invigorating performances, maintaining the artist’s presence as the focal point.
“Lighting and video should take their appropriate place in the visual equation, remembering that it is the artist who essentially puts the last note of colour and light into each frame of the show,” Felipe commented.
He decided on a diamond-shaped LED screen upstage center – to have something different and more interesting than the ‘standard’ rectangular slab of video. He evolved an array of lighting looks and texturing for each song of the set … with some input from the artist.
The central screen is 6.5 meters square but rotated 45 degrees to give the diamond shape a top-to-bottom height of 9 meters and a very elegant appearance. With all the motors concealed in the roof above, it appears to be floating in the air, adding a layer of intrigue to the whole stage design.
The main 12 meter runs of overhead trusses were flown at 90 degrees to one another to mirror the architecture of the diamond screen, each one rigged with 10 x MegaPointes and 4 x Spiiders.
Then there were four diagonal trusses – two a side – at the back, framing and following the angle of the upper half of the screen, also rigged with MegaPointes and Spiiders. On the floor were three 2.4 meter structures each side also rigged with Spiiders.
Towards the center of the stage – overhead – was another 2.4-metre-long run of truss loaded with 3 x BMFL Spots and 12 of the Spikies, and then to the sides, two 6 meter runs of truss each rigged with 6 x Spikies. The ‘frame’ of lighting was completed with Tyler trusses each side each containing another six MegaPointes and four Spiiders.
On the floor for contrasting angles, 12 additional MegaPointes and 12 x Spikies were positioned along the back and sides.
For the show’s high impact opening sequence, two BMFL WashBeams were utilized for precise front gobo projections, and this got the set off to a dramatic start.
The three BMFL Spots Felipe used to close the stage space right down for the intimate and personal moments of the set. He particularly likes the colors on the BMFL range.
