Annex Beach Club in Cannes is not a typical venue. A luxury outdoor restaurant on the Mediterranean, golden-hour sunsets, guests who are used to the finest things. Exactly the kind of environment where an act either delivers — or visibly doesn’t.
It was my first extended run with the LED Cyr Wheel. Multiple shows per week across six weeks. I knew the wheel worked technically. But sustained back-to-back performances are a different kind of test: would the equipment hold up night after night?
It did. Not a single failure across the entire season. Every show ran in sync with the music and stage lighting — on a stage just three metres across, the technical minimum for this act. You learn quickly to own every centimetre of the space.
Timing was everything. The evening programme opened with sunset, but the LED act always closed it — waiting until dark enough that the light truly lands. Too early and the contrast is gone, the effect disappears. Patience is part of the performance.
What surprised both the venue owners and the guests: building the Annex logo and custom graphic patterns directly into the LED programme. Not as a gimmick, but as a statement — this act belongs to this evening, to this place. Guests who are used to seeing world-class entertainment still said they had never seen anything like it.
My intention from the start was to use light as a design tool rather than decoration. No flashing for the sake of flashing. Cannes confirmed that the approach works — and that the act is ready for long-term contracts at the highest level.
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September 2025
