A unique and innovative 360° show, performed on the ground, but also in the air…
Live ! by GL Events, Executive Producer
Les Petits Français, Concept & Show Design, Direction & Content Production
Production team
Emmanuel David, CEO
Séverine Colas, Co-Director of the International and Large Events Unit
Thierry Coutant, Co-Director of the International and Large Events Unit
Hervé Chaumont, Production Director, assisted by Virginie Arbid
Alicia Maurey, Project Director
Clément Duprat, Project Assistant
Christian Balende, Consultant
Artistic team
Martin Arnaud, Show designer and Director
Anne Larra, Artistic Producer
Marilyn Kuentz, Artistic Producer
Tadrina Hocking, 1st Assistant
Caroline Grisard, Show Caller
Jean François Branchereau, Production Coordinator
Design & Image production
SpectreLab: Marc Vidal, Jérôme Sérane, Philippe Granier
François Simerey Studio: François Simerey
Philéas Images: Jocelyn Mazeau
Original soundtrack
Pierre Caillot, Philippe Villar, Pascal Lengagne, Fabien Langard
Lighting design & Programming
Vincent Mongourdin
Costumes design & Production
Caroline Denquin, assisted by Flore Géran
Pyrotechnics Design and Production
Grand Final, Stéphane Bazoge and Pierre-Emmanuel Gelis
Stage Managers
Jean Marc Hennaut
Daniel Adami
Renaud Campana
Sebastien Jovys
Christophe Bernard
Fréderic Margot
Roman Boiste
Frédéric Raynaud
Patricia Vallet
Laetitia Bonetti
Nuria Nava Coll
Arnaud Perrel
Amanda Lavenant
Technical and logistics team
Charles Pavie, Technical Director
Boris Gueorguievsky, Logistics Director
Set
FL structures
Rigging
Scène-Concept, Jean Claude Blaser
CATS engineering, Thomas Loriaux
Video-projection
ETC Audiovisuel
Light, light, power distribution, communications
Dushow, GL Audiovisuel
Special effects, flames, LED screen submerged
Crystal Group
Show control
Adrem
Photos
Myli Bourigault
Pierre Le Tulzo
Fred Raynaud
Live ! by GL Events, Executive Producer
Les Petits Français, Concept & Show Design, Direction & Content Production
Production team
Emmanuel David, CEO
Séverine Colas, Co-Director of the International and Large Events Unit
Thierry Coutant, Co-Director of the International and Large Events Unit
Hervé Chaumont, Production Director, assisted by Virginie Arbid
Alicia Maurey, Project Director
Clément Duprat, Project Assistant
Christian Balende, Consultant
Artistic team
Martin Arnaud, Show designer and Director
Anne Larra, Artistic Producer
Marilyn Kuentz, Artistic Producer
Tadrina Hocking, 1st Assistant
Caroline Grisard, Show Caller
Jean François Branchereau, Production Coordinator
Design & Image production
SpectreLab: Marc Vidal, Jérôme Sérane, Philippe Granier
François Simerey Studio: François Simerey
Philéas Images: Jocelyn Mazeau
Original soundtrack
Pierre Caillot, Philippe Villar, Pascal Lengagne, Fabien Langard
Lighting design & Programming
Vincent Mongourdin
Costumes design & Production
Caroline Denquin, assisted by Flore Géran
Pyrotechnics Design and Production
Grand Final, Stéphane Bazoge and Pierre-Emmanuel Gelis
Stage Managers
Jean Marc Hennaut
Daniel Adami
Renaud Campana
Sebastien Jovys
Christophe Bernard
Fréderic Margot
Roman Boiste
Frédéric Raynaud
Patricia Vallet
Laetitia Bonetti
Nuria Nava Coll
Arnaud Perrel
Amanda Lavenant
Technical and logistics team
Charles Pavie, Technical Director
Boris Gueorguievsky, Logistics Director
Set
FL structures
Rigging
Scène-Concept, Jean Claude Blaser
CATS engineering, Thomas Loriaux
Video-projection
ETC Audiovisuel
Light, light, power distribution, communications
Dushow, GL Audiovisuel
Special effects, flames, LED screen submerged
Crystal Group
Show control
Adrem
Photos
Myli Bourigault
Pierre Le Tulzo
Fred Raynaud
In the middle of a 50-metre pool (7 850m2), a hovering cube, which undergoes constant metamorphoses throughout the ceremony in order to dramatically present the strength and modernity of African youth and the balance between sport and local culture.
On the heels of a gymnastic pre-show offered by the Chinese delegation, the ceremony, composed of 10 main scenes, represented a nation proud of its roots and confident in its future.
Almost 1 000 local performers in communion with a highly ambitious technical set-up (rigging, machinery, video mapping, special effects, pyrotechnics) made for a ceremony in which form and content converged perfectly.
Offering a total immersion in local culture, the ceremony revisited traditions and honored oral tradition, but was also anchored in modernity with a good dose of that particular brand of pride of Congolese young people.
Due to the sporting competitions taking place on the site of the ceremony, we were only able to "take possession" of the venue two days before the show. We therefore had to put in place a complex logic of rehearsals, separating the live elements from the technical, in order to bring the two together once on site, at the last minute.
To add to the challenge, which was already complicated by the Games schedule, a sandstorm blew up (something which the Congolese could not remember ever seeing happen there before) during our pre-show, two hours before the ceremony. Thanks to the incredible technical team and the determination of all participants, the show took place in optimum conditions, much to the spectators' surprise.
