NASHVILLE – Shaping Sound, a mash up of contemporary dancers, musical genres and dancing styles, has returned to the road with a new production with Shaping Sound: After the Curtain. Bandit Lites is once again providing the lighting package for the spectacle, which is under the artistic direction of Emmy Award winner Travis Wall and co-created with Nick Lazzarini, Teddy Forance and Kyle Robinson.
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SAN DIEGO – Most of the fans who turned up at The Holding Company to hear a St. Patrick’s Day concert by the popular Irish band The Fooks were appropriately dressed in green. They weren’t alone. The well-known Ocean Beach music venue was also adorned in brilliant emerald, thanks to some imaginative lighting by Matt Collier and a collection of fixtures from CHAUVET Professional and CHAUVET DJ.
TARTU, Estonia – The brand new Eesti Rahva Muuseum (Estonian National Museum) in Tartu has recently opened in a fabulous new single story state-of-the-art 350 metre long architectural masterpiece resembling a portion of a runway lifting upwards … built on the former Raadi Air Base just outside the cultural hub and second city of Tartu, and near to the site of the original Muuseum at Raadi Manor. Around 100 x Robe LED fixtures – a mix of DL4S Profiles, DL4X Spots, LEDBeam 1000s and CycFX 8s have been specified and supplied for the Muuseum’s three main performance, event and conference spaces.
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LOS ANGELES – A.C.T Lighting, Inc. continues its support of the educational community by providing students with new equipment used by lighting professionals worldwide. Most recently A.C.T Lighting supplied Claypaky fixtures and grandMA2 consoles to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas. A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of Claypaky fixtures and MA Lighting products in North America.
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NYC – Multi award-winning and Tony-nominated lighting designer Justin Townsend (The Humans, American Psycho, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson) finds that he is using Elation Professional lights more and more since his first experience with them in 2013/2014 on the Broadway musical A Night with Janis Joplin. Currently, he is using Elation Satura Profile™ and Platinum Seven™ LED-based moving heads on the world premiere of Joan of Arc: Into the Fire, an exciting new Off-Broadway musical penned by David Byrne.
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Pointman Lifting Products’ new Flex-Phase hoist, initially available in the 1/4T capacity Model S unit, continues the company’s tradition of bringing new features to the world of electric chain hoists. This new-to-market hoist gives users the flexibility of powering their hoist with either 115 Volt single phase power or 230 Volt three phase power. With a lifting capacity of 500 pounds at 16 feet per minute regardless of operating voltage, Flex-Phase is well suited for companies whose projects run the range from small events projects up to large tradeshow events. The compact chassis and low self weight of the SM series platform combine to make the Flex-Phase hoist easy for crews to handle, and leaves more of the rigging points capacity for the support of the production equipment. A Flex-Phase unit fitted with 60 feet of lift weighs in at less than 50 pounds.
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Entertainment Structural Products, Inc. (ESP) announced their new MEGABlox and MICROBlox truss accessory connectors, which are engineered by ESP for permanent installation. Designed for truss chords from 35 mm to 6 inches in two-sided or six-sided configurations, ESP says these new truss accessory connectors can be used to connect lights and speakers without whacky wing nuts or protrusions.
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LOS ANGELES – In a bid for the title “The hardest working band in show biz,” the Red Hot Chili Peppers have 52 dates booked for The Getaway tour across the US, Canada, Europe, and Latin America. Such a rigorous schedule requires rugged and reliable lighting fixtures, which is one of the reasons why the tour’s lighting rig features the Solaris Flare.
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VIENNA – Gerhard Scherer is a happy man since 24 x Robe DL7S Profiles and DL4S Profiles – 12 of each fixture – have been installed at the Theater Akzent Theatre in Vienna … a busy producing and receiving house located in the Wieden district of Austria’s capital city, famous for its culture and charm. Head of lighting Gerhard has been working at Akzent since it was founded in 1989 in the grounds of the former Palais Nathaniel Rothschild. Its postmodern architecture was designed by Rudolf Jarosch and it offers a 455 seat main house, a studio that can accommodate 80 people and a 380 capacity event space.
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DALLAS — PRG announced that it has been issued a United States utility patent for its GroundControl Followspot System. The patent (number 9,593,830) is the culmination of a multiple-year development effort by the PRG Research and Development team based in Dallas. This patent is the first issued of the four patents filed by PRG related to the GroundControl system.
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LONDON — For the Feb. 28 red-carpet premiere of Kong: Skull Island, Impact Production Services provided a video assist to event producers Limited Edition Event Design by supplying PVP X6IP LED video panels from Chauvet Professional. The video wall consisted of three separate 6.5m x 3m LED video screens.
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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — An elaborate set with video screens, cryo effects and a large cast of fire-twirling dancers accompanied the March 9 premiere for Kong: Skull Island in Ho Chi Minh City (a.k.a. Saigon), Vietnam, but the spectacle took an even more dramatic twist after an apparently misplaced torch set the entire set ablaze, with crowd, cast and crew scrambling for safety. No injuries were reported.
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