Every two years the vast terrain of Idanha-a-Nova Lake, Portugal transforms into the sacred lands of Boom Festival, an unrivaled European collaborative space for artists, dreamers, dancers and visionaries.
In beautiful alignment of creation and innovation, Los Angeles-based masters of event production, Do LaB, made their third pilgrimage across the globe to Boom Festival this past summer to collaborate with multidisciplinary design firm, Vita Motus, on their grandest engineering triumph to date – the Boom Dance Temple.
The Boom Dance Temple is a reflection of Do LaB’s innate ability to enchant revelers with inspired designs, bold architecture and signature technicolor schemes.
Ten full months of planning went into assembling the largest structure Do LaB has erected to date – at 50,000 square feet, the Temple measured the equivalent to two and a half “Big Fish” (fondly recognized as the Do LaB Stage at Coachella). The main goal of the monumental undertaking was above-all to forge an un-obstructed dance floor to ensure pulsating flow and the purest soundscape fathomable.
On traversing the many obstacles that arise in a large-scale undertaking such as the Boom Dance Temple, Do LaB co-founder and lead builder Josh Flemming reflects:
“One of the biggest challenges at first is the language barrier…Everyone speaks some form of English but it’s challenging at times to know that we are all on the same page and fully understand each other. After a week you start to realize that everyone on the team understands what’s going on and you can confidently move forward.”
Watch the After-Movie of Boom Festival 2016 below:
Check out more photos of ‘The Boom Dance Temple’ below:
