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Axel Melchior chooses Chauvet for Circus Knie

Lighting design by Axel Melchior supported Circus Knie, one of Europe’s oldest circuses, during its 2023 season. The shows featured a broad range of acts, from dancing horses to motorcycles spinning around in a sphere at high speeds whilst parallel to the ground. Melchior chose fixtures from Chauvet Professional to illuminate the various performances.

The circus’s waterfall stage, made up of a circular pond with a waterfall at its center, used 7,000 liters of water each day. Acrobats performed stunning feats on the surface above the cylindrical waterfall. Accenting their performance, as well as the beauty of the pond and fall, was a collection of 33 Chauvet Professional Colorado PXL Bar 8 motorized RGBW tilting battens supplied by Dushow.

Initially, Melchior considered using another IP65-rated Colorado model, the PXL Bar 16, but switched to the PXL 8 for a more exact fit around the circular stage. “We wanted a color rendering LED batten with tilt, zoom and pixel mapping that was IP rated”, he says. “Our initial thought was the PXL Bar 16, but the layout around the 8 m diameter stage didn’t allow us to integrate that product, so we opted for the Colorado PXL Bar 8 instead.”

“We used the wash lights mainly to illuminate the water during the various effects”, he continues. “The PLX’s zoom allowed us to obtain the right aperture without over-lighting the rest of the tent. We also lit the performers when we didn’t have a water effect. Our water system used a high volume recycled water every show.”

Melchior, along with artistic director Géraldine Knie, co-designer Julien Lhomme, and technical advisor John Masson of Dushow were so happy with the performance of the Colorado PXL Bar 8 that they decided to use the fixture again for the 2024 Circus Knie tour.

(Photos: Axel Melchior)

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