LONDON — Geert Alaert’s £10million video-mapped arena spectacular, Peter Pan, The Never Ending Story, used a lighting design from Belgium-based LD Luc Peumans that included Clay Paky’s Alpha Profile 1500s. Peumans describes the challenge of lighting the projection-dominated show as one of “lighting light.”
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LOS ANGELES — Electrosonic noted that March 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the company’s founding. To help mark the milestone, the company is publishing Electrosonic – 50 Years on the Audio-Visual Front Line, written by co-founder Robert Simpson.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ — Bob Barnhart lit Bruno Mars and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers during their Feb. 2 Super Bowl XLVIII halftime show performances with a lighting design that included 220 Ayrton MagicPanel602 fixtures.
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LIVERPOOL, U.K. — Stage Technologies has supplied a stage engineering system for the newly reopened Everyman Theatre here. The system is based on a specification designed by Charcoal Blue consultants and the Everyman Trust that focuses on flexibility and future expansion.
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Chauvet Professional added two new PAR-style fixtures to its COLORado family of LED wash lights: the COLORado 2-Quad Zoom Tour (pictured here) and COLORado 2-Quad Zoom VW Tour (pictured below).
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ESCONDIDO, CA — Jeff Ravitz of Intensity Advisors served as LD for author Dr. Wayne Dyer’s recent PBS pledge drive special, I Can See Clearly Now. The show premiered nationwide on PBS on March 4 and will continue to air throughout March. It was the author’s 10th program for public television and was taped before a live audience at the California Center For the Arts here.
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NEW YORK — Sapsis Rigging provided rigging design and installation services as well as all of the equipment to fly two sculptures in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. The sculptures, designed and crafted by Chinese artist Xu Bing , represent a male and female Phoenix flying through the nave of the Cathedral.
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LONDON — Avicii’s recent U.K. and European shows relied on LED, projection and control from XL Video. Also supporting the shows: tour director Curly Jobson, production manager Robin Scott and visuals produced by Harry Bird from This Is Comix. (Bird also serves as live show director.)
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LONDON — For folk-punk singer Frank Turner’s European tour, LD Shaun Moore, who has used various Avolites desks since 2002, is controlling the lighting rig with a Sapphire Touch.
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