CHICAGO — Lightswitch is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month. Founded in 1993 with offices in San Francisco and Chicago, the firm expanded with locations in Los Angeles, New York and Orlando. In 2007, it opened an architectural lighting division. The company extended its reach to Asia with a Hong Kong office in 2012. The Lightswitch team now includes more than 40 designers and support staff with its six full-service offices.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The Zip Zap Circus School, a nonprofit organization dedicated not just to circus stunts but technical training and enriching the lives of others, recently installed two Robe DLX Spots and 24 Robe LEDForce PAR 18s. The gear was specified by Malo McGrath from Johannesburg based installation company, The Art of Noise, who worked with DWR’s Duncan Riley.
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LONDON — For the West End debut for the Brainiac Live show at The Palace Theatre here, XL Events had to figure out the best way to serve the show’s production needs – lighting, video and audio – while playing “underneath” Derren Brown’s current residency at the Palace — which entailed that the production be rigged and de-rigged in a seemingly impossible time frame, as little as 30 minutes, in some instances.
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SEDALIA, MO — Seth Jackson, LD for Toby Keith’s current Hammer Down tour, is using a light rig that includes more than 80 of GLP’s new impression X4S LED wash fixtures. Bandit Lites is supplying the gear. Jackson’s co-designer, Nathan W. Scheuer, provided an assist with the versatile setup, which is designed to adapt to a wide array of different venues.
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RIJKHOVEN, Belgium —Luc Peumans, a lighting and visuals designer with Genk, Belgium-based Painting With Light, lit Summer Opera Alden Biesen’s 2013 season production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto with a moving light rig that included six Clay Paky Alpha Profile 1200s, 12 HES Studio Colors and a grandMA 2 for control. Carlos Wagner directed this year’s production, Marnik Daert designed the set, Niels Huybrecht assisted with programming and local rental company New Lines provided the gear.
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AALSMEER, The Netherlands — Eventec, a leading production company based here, added more than 80 new fixtures from Robe to its inventory, including Robe Robin Pointes, LEDWash 300s and MMX WashBeams. The gear will be used for a variety of live and televised productions. Eventec also works together with other Amsterdam-area rental companies —notably Haarlem-based React — to pool their gear resources in support of large events.
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THE NETHERLANDS — Creative Technology announced that Edwin de Haan has joined the project management team at CT’s Holland operation. Prior to Creative Technology, de Haan spent seven years managing elaborate video productions on behalf of XL Video in the Netherlands.
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NEW YORK — For the annual “Christmas in August” promotional event for the 2013 Radio City Christmas Spectacular, which took place under the venue’s marquee on Aug. 13, MSG Entertainment featured its Rockettes, Santa Claus, nativity scene animals and a freshly-carved Okamoto Studios ice sculpture along with free cranberry-apple ice pops. MagicSnow provided faux snow for the event.
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