[2025] Rehearsals #1

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Op zondag 4 mei 2025 09:47 schreef Fred_B het volgende:

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Zijn de mannen op de achtergrond ingeruild voor vrouwen?

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Op zondag 4 mei 2025 10:14 schreef Greys het volgende:
@:Momo weet jij toevallig nog hoe lang na het begin van elke repetitie ongeveer er gisteren een beschrijving op Reddit kwam? Ik heb gister zitten kopiëren en plakken voor/in de landentopics hier maar heb totaal niet op de tijden gelet. Dan maak ik even een twietje over vandaag, hoe laat Claude op de rol staat om te repeteren en hoe laat we dan ongeveer een beschrijving verwachten. Meestal zo'n half uur na het begin denk ik?

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Op zondag 4 mei 2025 10:39 schreef Greys het volgende:

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Interessant zo die foto's. Drie portretten zeg maar. Je ziet er geen reet haha.

Jij wel bedankt voor het plaatsen uiteraard!

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10:30 CEST: Rehearsal 1: 🇳🇴 Norway - Kyle Alessandro – Lighter

First up today it’s 18-year-old Kyle Alessandro from Norway, who is rehearsing his song Lighter. He’s a singer, songwriter and producer from Steinkjer in Trøndelag, although his father is Spanish, so he also spends a lot of time visiting family in Malaga.

Lots of elements of this staging have travelled directly from MGP, including the prop with the two stone pillars and the steps. But Kyle has a much bigger LED backdrop for a series of post-apocalyptic mountain graphics (mountains definitely a theme this year), and also a much bigger stage to work with. He takes full advantage of this, with a very polished dance routine that uses both the walkway and the wide front section (which the crew call the ‘frame stage’, by the way, so we will too).

What elevates this performance to ‘off the scale’ is the lighting – there’s a moving lighting rig on the roof that lowers in the second half, creating a stunning moment in the quiet middle eight after the dance break, when Kyle is caught in hundreds of spotlights in the middle of the stage.

As for Kyle’s costume, there’s been lots of discussion about whether he might change the armour because of similarity to Armenia’s Parg, then he confirmed he was keeping the armour, but it would be a new version. If he has changed it, we really can’t tell – to our (admittedly untrained) eyes, it looks exactly the same. Also one other small point – Kyle has three dancers rather than the four we saw at MGP, and one of them delivers some impressive breakdancing at the end.

🔥 PYRO UPDATE! Again similar to MGP, there's a channel of flames along the front of the frame stage, and jets of flame through the second half. Anyone in the standing area should bring marshmallows.

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11:20 CEST: Rehearsal 2: 🇧🇪 Belgium - Red Sebastian – Strobe Lights

Time to crank up the tempo and break out the glo-sticks, because Red Sebastian from Belgium is rehearsing his rave anthem Strobe Lights.

Red Sebastian is the alter ego of 25-year-old Seppe Herreman, who was a finalist on Belgium’s Got Talent way back in 2014. He went on to study music at the Conservatory of Ghent, where he had singing lessons from none other than 2023’s Gustaph. We LOVE how small the Eurovision world is.

Red Sebastian won Eurosong for Belgium in a haze of pulsing red and black lighting – that’s definitely made the journey to Basel, but now it takes in the full LED wall and the frame at the front of the stage. The precision choreography of the lighting and graphics is spectacular – in the final section the Lego lights descend to add some intensity for the final section when the whole thing goes off and the arena dances like the whole world is watching.

The moving platform hasn’t made the journey from Eurosong – Red Sebastian stays grounded for this performance, and now has three dancers rather than the previous four. His costume is very similar to the red PVC suit with triangular shoulders he wore in the official video, and his dancers are in matching outfits, but with black accents. Being floor based also allows Red Sebastian to include some precision choreography, including a section where he interacts with his own reflection on the LED floor.

The big notes are something else. There is no roof left on this arena. We need a lie down.

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Op zondag 4 mei 2025 12:01 schreef molloot200 het volgende:
Wat zijn nou weer “Lego lights”?