Junior Eurovision hits a high note with Robe

The 2025 Junior Eurovision Song Contest was staged in the Gymnastic Hall of the Olympic City in Tbilisi, Georgia. The complete stage, lighting and video concept and design was created by Raphaël Demonthy of Sunrise Studios GmbH in Berlin, who specified nearly 300 Robe moving lights as part of a lighting rig of nearly 800 fixtures. The Robe count included 54 x iESPRITE LTL WBs, 39 x ESPRITE Profiles, 26 x iFORTES, 12 x FORTES, 48 x Spiiders, 56 x MegaPointes and 36 x LEDBeam 1000s. Raphaël’s FOH team were also controlling content for 13 x 4K video outputs spread across multiple surfaces, all of which combined to bring numerous spectacular and breathtaking Eurovision-tastic moments to this vibrant, action-packed broadcast show.

Lighting equipment, together with LED screens, trussing and rigging, was supplied by Bulgarian rentalcompany ESC Rental, whose CEO NatalieHadad worked closely with the event’s technical production manager and supervisor, Aleksandar Zdravkov, who is also CEO of company ProCinema Production. This was the third Junior ESC that Sunrise Studios– led by Raphaël and his business partnerand LD ChrisMoylan – has lit.

Raphaël worked alongside his own fabulous FOH team of Fabian Schmidt, lighting director for show lighting; assistant lighting designer Marcel Knauf; key lighting operator Tobias Heydhausen and follow spot caller Matthias Hagel. His gaffer was Oliver Klaus, and the remote follow spotting system engineers were Matze Held and Christian “Rocket Chris” Glatthor. The Sunrise Studios team also included the media server crew, comprising server operator Matthias Schöffmann with media server farming managed by Chris van Deenen of Trust Rental GmbH. Head of video planning was Sebastian Huwig, and the projection mapping guru was Martin Karl. Motion graphic designers were Sebastian and Natalie Zittlau, and Natalie was also the overall motion graphic design supervisor.

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Photos © Chris Moyen