Last night, Shakira and Studio DRIFT team up to fly a spectacular 1500 drone performance to open her largest show ever at Rio’s Copacabana beach, in front of a world breaking record amount of people.
The show opens with DRIFT’s legendary Franchise Freedom artwork, mimicking the swarming of starlings and reacting to the audience coming out to collectively experience this monumental cultural moment in history. DRIFT’s artwork, conceived in 2008, is the genesis piece that triggered the development of what is now the Drone light industry.
Franchise Freedom is followed up by a giant Wolf, inviting the audience to join in with a collective howl to connect to the full moon gracefully overlooking Copacabana beach. The howl collectively brings the audience into the same energy, inviting Shakira to the stage.
The performance features the illumination of Shakira’s eyes overlooking the crowd, using the drone fleet as a pixelated screen, making personal eye contact with everyone at Copacabana beach, and opening Shakira’s legendary performance.
The drone performance is a brain child of Ralph Nauta, Lonneke Gordijn (DRIFT) and Lucas van Oostrum.
