Great show and pregnancy announcement: this was the Rihanna show 1:10
(CNN) --
Yes, the seven floating stages during Rihanna's Apple Music Super Bowl LVII halftime show were theatrical and cool, but they also served a very practical purpose.
As explained by Bruce Rodgers, the show's production designer for the show, who spoke to Wired about how he helped create the show before the performance, it all had to do with the field's grass.
Rodgers explained that the LED-lit stages rising out of the field for Rihanna and her dancers was something that had "never been done before".
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"With Katy Perry, we made her fly in a flying machine, like a rocket," he said.
"But this is a totally different animal."
Rodgers said he came up with the concept and worked with Rihanna's team, which included designer Willo Perron, choreographer Parris Goebel and production manager Joseph Lloyd, to bring it to life.
Rihanna performs onstage during the Apple Music Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show.
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By having the singer and the other artists on the air, the tension was reduced on the field's turf, which at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, is 9,290 square meters of Bermuda Tifway 419 hybrid turf.
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Grass is very important to the National Football League, as it can affect how players perform on the field.
And while it might seem risky for Rihanna, who displayed her recent pregnancy for the first time during her performance, to be suspended on a stage between 15 and 60 feet above the ground, according to the report, the stages had "huge Brunel structures" that Rodgers claimed to Rihanna's team that they are "strong enough to 'take a freight train'".
Rihanna incorporated seven scenarios into her performance.
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"This is going to be, in my opinion, the most technically advanced Super Bowl halftime show ever done because of the amount of technology used to move the platforms," Aaron Siebert, project manager for Tait Towers, told the publication. made the platforms, before the show.
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