Moorea Festival goes Giga with Robe
The Maatea (main) Stage at the 2026 Moorea Festival in France featured an impressive array of international electronic and EDM artists and an equally dazzling lighting design by Loic Esparraga – of Paris-based design studio MIND – with 48 x Robe GigaPointe moving lights at the core of the aesthetic.
Loic 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.
This is the second time Loic – a lighting professional with 10 years’ experience – has lit this event, and the second time he had used Robe’s amazing, new, highly dynamic 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 this investment in GigaPointes, which were delivered by Robe France.
One of the most important things for designing and programming EDM shows is to have a vast choice of distinctive looks – so the audience does not start seeing repeated scenes throughout the event … and this is exactly what GigaPointe offers. 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 allelements, with the fixtures a natural integrator / interpreter between the scenic fabrics and video surfaces.
Loic enjoyed many features of the GigaPointe, commenting that “the integrated rotating bar is particularly interesting, as it offers so many highly dynamic effects possibilities,” together with all the other features making it a potent, contemporary multi-purpose fixture ideal for all types of shows and events.
The festival’s logo, installed at the top of the structure, was also highlighted with 2 x Robe iFORTES – rigged on theLayher structure – and another 2 x iFORTES were used to front light the artists. iFORTE was chosen for this because it is a powerful fixture with excellent framing shutters and therefore perfect to pick out the detail of the 12-metre-wide logo, which was positioned 14 metres up on the structure.
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