Danny Saucedo

Stage design for Danny Saucedo's "Happy That You Found Me" at Melodifestivalen 2024, built around a physical Romanesque gate and staircase set against three eight-metre LED walls and a nine-metre LED floor.

The gate is the hinge of the whole piece. It is real, built to be projection-mapped, and the projected architecture continues out of it into the screens, so the boundary between what is standing there and what is light is never quite fixed. The visuals move from a moonlit Romanesque evening through a garden like Elysium to a climax where the gate falls back into open sky.

I worked on the scenography and built the physical maquette the team tested the visuals against, which is how the proportions of the gate and its staircase were settled before anything was fabricated at scale.

See the project at Jonas Johansson

Smash Studio, co-design, 3D modelling and animationRose Hallgren, scenographyJonas Johansson, Technical director

The darkened stage, a lone figure in silhouette at the top of a staircase inside a tall arch of deep red light, reflected in the floor
Danny Saucedo singing in front of the gate, its arch overgrown with projected ivy and purple flowers in warm gold light
Danny Saucedo mid-performance, arms wide, against concentric pink and violet neon arches on the LED walls