Professional Lighting & Production - Fall 2017 | Page 17

Lighting for Canadian R&B
singer/songwriter The
Weeknd’s Starboy Legend of
the Fall tour was designed by
Sooner Routhier, who picked
Robe Spikie moving lights
together with BMFL Spots
and WashBeams to be at the
heart of the rig. Routhier has
worked with The Weeknd since
2012. She and design business
partner Robert Long of SRae
Productions were contacted
by his creative directors, Lamar
C Taylor and Drop, last year and
asked to assist with this tour,
which involved lighting a flown
sculpture created by produc-
tion designer Es Devlin.
U.K.-based creative design practice
Okulus, which is led by the team
of James Scott and Louis Oliver,
was asked to create a production
design for the first major world tour
for rising Canadian singer/song-
writer Shawn Mendes. Thirty-nine
Robe Spikies are incorporated into
the lighting scheme, crafted in
close collaboration with the show’s
creative director, Paul Caslin, and
24/7 Productions. The set was
built from a multi-layered fixed riser
system by TAIT.
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