Stage structure, from Disney to bop

The best stage structure immerses and delights, enhancing any efficiency or cultural expertise and elevating leisure to new heights. These wonderful designs will be discovered throughout the globe and in all weathers, from ABBA Voyage (opens in new tab)’s monumental, non permanent ABBA Area (opens in new tab) in east London, to teamLab’s art-fuelled staging in Tokyo, and Gala dance pageant’s Beacon summer time pavilions in Peckham. Elsewhere, New York-based design group Yellow Studio has curated the set for the 30-year celebration of Disney’s Magnificence and the Beast, combining period-inspired gauze constructions with video mapping and archival sketches. 

STAGE ARCHITECTURE ACROSS THE GLOBE

A Disney manufacturing design by Yellow Studio

Yellow Studio’s work delves into the world of manufacturing design, artistic route and artwork route for tv and dwell occasions. For Disney’s stage structure, the studio took inspiration from decorative French rococo interiors – particularly the typology’s grand, curving constructions – however left the surfaces clear, prepared for video-mapping and versatile stage setting. ‘We designed 13 completely different areas together with inside scenes of the fortress and out of doors scenes like Belle’s reprise, the forest, and the city,’ explains Julio Himede, director of Yellow Studio.

The staff additionally had unique entry to the hand-drawn sketches by the animators who created the 1991 traditional, and so they utilised the archival imagery to create 2D-effect set items, showing like sketched furnishings. Himede explains that ‘fairly than constructing a naturalistic French provincial city from the 1740s, we created a market of 2D set items within the particular type of the hand-drawn sketches from the unique movie’.

The constructions within the manufacturing include a sequence of freestanding archways and partitions, whose semi-transparent gauze floor ‘allowed for video and lighting integration and remodeled the set from scene to scene’, says Himede. The result permits the viewer to see the dwell viewers behind the set: ‘This impact is a nod to the ethical of the story, true magnificence comes from inside.’

Beacons by studio JAM at Gala dance pageant

With Beacons, the stage at south London’s premiere dance pageant Gala in 2022, architects Joe Halligan, Daniel Waterstone and Adam Willis of studio JAM sought to create an area that achieved ‘equality’ amongst performing artists and viewers. ‘As a substitute of everybody one specific level, it is about attempting to get again this sense of the home occasion, a relaxed, extra casual means of having fun with music,’ says Halligan.

Puccini’s Turandot by teamLab

The trick for teamLab – now an virtually 700-strong tremendous studio or ‘artwork stack’ – is sustaining some form of artistic distance from different digital artwork makers. Its collaboration on a manufacturing of Puccini’s Turandot, at Geneva’s Grand Theatre in June 2022, was proof of that artistic stretch. The staff used reflections and lighting to provide an impact of constructions, presenting the array of architectural phases that they curated for the manufacturing in really grand type.

ABBA Voyage and ABBA Area by Stufish

ABBA Area, house of the legendary music group’s revolutionary London present, ABBA Voyage, shouldn’t be solely a intelligent bodily house to accommodate an revolutionary digital live performance; additionally it is the world’s largest demountable non permanent venue. The construction, a subtly mysterious, timber-clad, hexagonal quantity positioned close to Pudding Mill Lane DLR station in east London, is a monumental efficiency house for the capital, created by the experience of architects Stufish. The studio, additionally behind spectacular stage set designs reminiscent of Beyonce and Jay-Z’s On The Run II tour, conceived this piece of leisure structure as solely the apply’s fifth ground-up new-build construction – and its first exterior China.