Lighting design
Cirque Bon Bon: Le Retour
Circus, contortion and dance beneath the Piazza roof. Krank'd created the lighting design for JACS Entertainment's Cirque Bon Bon: Le Retour at Brisbane Festival 2024.
Explore the production- When
- 18 to 20 September 2024
- Where
- South Bank Piazza, Brisbane
A wide view of the blue-lit Piazza and central stage.
Cirque Bon Bon returns to Brisbane Festival
Cirque Bon Bon: Le Retour played at South Bank Piazza from 18 to 20 September as part of Brisbane Festival 2024. Presented by JACS Entertainment, the returning production brought an all-new cast of acrobats, contortionists and dancers to the venue.
Mario Queen of the Circus hosted the show, linking the different acts into an evening of circus entertainment. The programme moved between feats of balance, flexibility, movement and comedy, with the Piazza's open performance space giving the acts room to occupy different heights and scales.
Lighting the changing shape of the circus
Krank'd delivered the lighting design. The production needed shifts of focus between solo performers, partnered acrobatics and larger dance passages, while keeping the different acts within one visual world.
The lighting used the Piazza setting to frame that changing action, moving with the drama and pace of the performances. Circus asks the audience to read fine physical detail as well as the overall stage picture; the design supported both, giving the individual act its focus before opening back out to the full performance space.
