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Toronto-Based Ballet Creole’s 25th Season Performances Lit with Clay Paky Fixtures

Contemporary dance company, Ballet Creole, marked its 25th anniversary with many events and performances, including their annual spring season at Harbourfront Centre’s Fleck Dance Theatre. A.C.T Lighting, Inc., distributor of Clay Paky fixtures in North America, supplied LD Brad Trenaman with some Alpha Spot QWO 800s, which were not yet available from local rental houses. Trenaman also deployed Clay Paky A.leda K10 and K20 Wash fixtures during the season.

Toronto-Based Ballet Creole’s 25th Season Performances Lit with Clay Paky Fixtures

TORONTO – Contemporary dance company, Ballet Creole, marked its 25th anniversary with many events and performances, including their annual spring season at Harbourfront Centre’s Fleck Dance Theatre. A.C.T Lighting, Inc., distributor of Clay Paky fixtures in North America, supplied LD Brad Trenaman with some Alpha Spot QWO 800s, which were not yet available from local rental houses. Trenaman also deployed Clay Paky A.leda K10 and K20 Wash fixtures during the season.

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Howden Park Centre, a multi-functional venue featuring a 300 seat theatre, three fully configurable studio spaces and two galleries and meeting rooms, hosts a vibrant and varied program of music, arts and performance. Technical coordinator Ian Gibson and theatre technician Stephen Oakes, who undertakes most of the show operation, are pleased with their recent purchase of Eaton’s new Zero 88 FLX Lighting Console as a lighting control solution.

Scotland Venue, Howden Park Centre, Using Zero 88 FLX Lighting Console

LIVINGSTON, Scotland – Howden Park Centre, a multi-functional venue featuring a 300 seat theatre, three fully configurable studio spaces and two galleries and meeting rooms, hosts a vibrant and varied program of music, arts and performance. Technical coordinator Ian Gibson and theatre technician Stephen Oakes, who undertakes most of the show operation, are pleased with the venue’s Zero 88 FLX Lighting Console, acquired earlier this year.

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The Great Stage lighting was controlled by an Avolites Sapphire Touch and Quartz. Andrew Whitton

Secret Garden Party 2015 Looks Controlled by Avolites Consoles, Media Servers

ABBOTS RIPTON, U.K. — Avolites’ consoles and servers controlled diverse rigs on 12 major stages and further smaller performance areas at this year’s eclectic Secret Garden Party festival. More than 20,000 revelers traveled to Mill Hill Field in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire to experience the unique atmosphere and hear headliners including Public Service Broadcasting, Roots Manuva and Kate Tempest.

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Parnelli Award Voting Begins

2015 Parnelli Voting Begins!

LAS VEGAS — The nomination phase of the 2015 Parnelli Awards has ended, the Parnelli Ballot has been posted, and voting has begun! Voting is restricted to active subscribers to PLSN (and FRONT of HOUSE) magazines, so every vote counts. Don’t miss out, go to ParnelliAwards.com and vote today!

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Bandit Lites, which recently added GLP impression X4 Bar 10 fixtures to its touring inventory, provided the battens for the touring rig used by Jason Isbell's four sold out shows at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Lighting designer Michael Cummings of Pulse Lighting has utilized twelve of them on the upstage floors for both beam looks, pixel effects and as a light curtain.

Bandit Lites Supplies GLP Fixtures for Jason Isbell Tour

NASHVILLE. – Bandit Lites, which recently added GLP impression X4 Bar 10 fixtures to its touring inventory, provided the battens for the touring rig used by Jason Isbell’s four sold out shows at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Lighting designer Michael Cummings of Pulse Lighting has utilized twelve of them on the upstage floors for both beam looks, pixel effects and as a light curtain.

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Utopium Lighting lit live music performances for the U.K. TV show, Relentless Ultra Presents Soundchain.

Utopium Lights Interview with Florence + The Machine for U.K. TV Show

UK – The second series of Relentless Ultra Presents Soundchain was broadcast on MTV, July/August 2015, with Utopium lighting up the star-studded show. The Relentless Ultra Presents Soundchain television series, hit U.K. screens for a second year with new host, Radio 1 DJ, Nick Grimshaw. Utopium Lighting was entrusted to provide lighting for the three live music performances per show and exclusive interviews with Florence and the Machine, Rudimental, Catfish and the Bottlemen and Foals.

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Arcadia’s giant fire-breathing spider, a big draw to the annual Glastonbury Festival, landed in the Queen’s Square in Bristol for an inner city festival dubbed Metamorphosis on Sept. 4-5. Some 20,000 attended the DJ event/visual extravaganza, which included three mini-spiders and the Lords of Lightning. CPL provided projection equipment and crew. Photo by Ben Daure.

CPL Provides Projection Gear and Crew as Arcadia Spider Makes Way from Glasto to Bristol, U.K.

BRISTOL, UK – Arcadia’s giant fire-breathing spider, a big draw to the annual Glastonbury Festival, landed in the Queen’s Square in Bristol for an inner city festival dubbed Metamorphosis on Sept. 4-5. Some 20,000 attended the DJ event/visual extravaganza, which included three mini-spiders and the Lords of Lightning. CPL provided projection equipment and crew.

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