LONDON —RC4 Wireless has been awarded Lighting Product of the Year by the Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT) for their RC4BlackMagic wireless DMX and dimming system. Pictured here is James David Smith, president and chief product designer at RC4, with the ABTT trophy and the RC4BlackMagic product.
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LONDON — Kensington Gardens was a favorite haunt of J.M. Barrie, author of
Peter Pan. Now the park is the locale for a new theatrical telling of that story in a 1,000-seat tent with a set designed by William Dudley, lit by LD Mark Henderson with gear supplied by White Light.
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VALENCIA, Spain — VMB named Milan-based professional lighting manufacturer Spotlight as a new distributor for VMB towerlifts in Italy. Spotlight will be responsible for sales, servicing and support in the Italian market.
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LONDON — Global Design Solutions’ LiteWare product line made its TV debut on the BBC’s
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. LiteWare gear, controlled wirelessly via DMX, lit the underside of the piano and the front of the stage before the lighting crew removed the fittings and deployed them at the front of the performance stage for another performance.
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SYDNEY — Prelite has trained five members of the lighting department at Australia’s Sydney Opera House (SOH) on the venue’s new in-house previz system.
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CAPE TOWN — Godskitchen’s 2009 world tour included a stop in Cape Town, South Africa, headlined by DJ Armin van Buuren and supported by Gearhouse South Africa.
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MUSCAT, Oman — TechnoPro LLC, which staged the Muscat Festival 2009 at Al Qurum National Park earlier this year, provided lasers, pyro and rigging and a lighting rig that included fixtures from PR Lighting.
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DORES, U.K. — LD Jonny Gaskell has been using 12 of i-Pix’s BB7 LED wash lights — with the 20 degree wide angle lenses — on Orbital’s shows and festival dates, including their recent performance at Rockness in Scotland.
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KARLSBAD, Germany —German Light Products (GLP) acquired G-LEC, makers of transparent LED video. The acquisition includes all assets and intellectual property.
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MALMO, Sweden — LumenRadio won first prize in Sweden’s Venture Cup Business Plan Competition for CRMX, the company’s first product line for wireless control of architectural and entertainment lighting.
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LONDON — Production Resource Group (PRG) supplied 18 PRG Bad Boy luminaires for the U.S. and European leg of Britney Spears’
Circus tour, as specified by designer Nick Whitehouse, who worked with design partner Bryan Leitch and their firm, Visual Light Ltd.
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MOSCOW — There was no shortage of spotlight-worthy performers at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, and no fewer than 17 Robert Juliat followspots used to keep them in the limelight.
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