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Ultra Music Festival celebrates 20 years with Elation Proteus

The world's premier electronic music festival - Ultra Music Festival, which ran from March 23-25 in Miami’s Bayfront Park - turned twenty this year and the occasion was marked, in part, by big beam lighting effects from an array of Elation Professional IP65-rated Proteus Beam moving heads that lined the top of the festival’s Main Stage.

Production and lighting design for the Main Stage was by The Activity, their ninth year of involvement with the festival. The Las Vegas-based production and design firm, headed by Patrick Dierson, wanted to do something special for the festival’s 20th year and chose the Proteus Beam for a prominent look.

Dierson served as lighting and production designer on the Main Stage. The Activity worked directly with Ultra’s creative director Richard Milstein, as well as AG Production Services who supplied all of the lighting and video elements for this year’s Ultra.

Dierson approached the project with a simple design aesthetic in mind for the Proteus lights but their role expanded as show time approached. “During performances they were to simply be twenty static beams reaching out over the downtown Miami skyline emanating from the structure and then produce sky tracking movements during the short set changes to maintain a level of visual excitement,” he says. “By the time we were in full show mode, many of the guest LDs started to incorporate them into their performances, which obviously turned the units into a much larger production element for the performances.”

Twenty Proteus Beams sat atop the Mountain Productions-built Main Stage, ten fixtures per side. Another Elation lighting fixture used on this year’s Main Stage was the Colour Chorus 72: Dierson built 112 of the LED battens into the architecture of creative director Milstein’s stage design.

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