The Maatea (main) Stage at the 2026 Moorea Festival in France featured an array of international electronic and EDM artists and a lighting design by Loic Esparraga – of Paris-based design studio MIND – with 48 Robe GigaPointe moving lights at the core of the aesthetic.
The festival, which started in 2024 and is growing and developing each year, was staged in the gardens of the majestic and beautiful 11th-century Château de Grillemont at La Chapelle-Blanche, south of Tours in France’s Indre-et-Loire region.
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.
During the day, the need was for subtle lighting to highlight the depth and overall scenic texture created by the careful blending of stage and lighting designs, allowing the stage geography to stand out. At night, the stage was transformed by the GigaPointe beams and effects. The fixtures were installed in six vertical columns of eight fixtures, spanning the stage and delivering impactful looks and atmosphere, with video content featuring erupting volcanoes “reinforcing the visual universe,” explained Esparraga.
Esparraga stated that the organisers sought something unique and different in this design: “The main challenge was to create this new and different world, one that broke from a typical EDM festival stage design, looked distinctive and individual while still following a defined theme.”
This is the second time Esparraga – a lighting professional with 10 years’ experience – has lit this event, and the second time he had used the GigaPointe fixture, officially launched in February at the ISE 2026 Expo. Multi Scéni – the lighting, audio and video equipment supplier to this event – recently invested in GigaPointes, which were delivered by Robe France.
Esparraga has been a long-time user of MegaPointe fixtures in his designs – choosing the fixtures for their versatility and scope. So, when he knew the GigaPointe would be available for this event, “it naturally stood out as the ideal choice!” he exclaimed.
He added that the GigaPointe’s “extremely powerful” laser source output, which “ensured that we could make a strong visual impact even over long distance.” He also appreciates its speed of movement, as well as the excellent array of new gobo and prism effects, which can be used to imagine a myriad of cool looks and scenes onstage.
Esparraga 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 two Robe iFORTES – rigged on the Layher structure – and another pair of 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 14m up on the structure.
Two Maatea Stage artists – Timmy Trumpet and Trym – brought their own lighting operators this year, who also appreciated the GigaPointes, and the rest were all lit by Esparraga and his team, including colleague lighting operator Lucas Bussy. They worked closely with video operator Bastien Sierakowski and SFX operator Paul Dubertrand under the project management of Charlène Rodrigues.
Esparraga regularly notes that Robe’s product range covers multiple applications – live shows, events and concerts or architectural lighting. “I always find a suitable solution using Robe,” he stated, adding that the fixtures are reliable, high-performance, and versatile tools “consistently meeting the demands of our projects.”
