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Big City, Big Dreams Ballet with Green Hippo.

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Big City, Big Dreams Ballet with Green Hippo.

JOHANNESBURG – Set, lighting and AV designer, Wilhelm Disbergen, relied on a Hippotizer Boreal Media Server and a giant mirror to create something utterly extraordinary for the ballet production Big City, Big Dreams, staged at the Joburg Theatre, in Johannesburg, South Africa. The original showcase, directed by Fiona Ramsay, was a collaboration between three dance companies – the Joburg Ballet, Vuyani Dance Company, and Moving Into Dance Mophatong. Over forty professional dancers adorned the stage as classical ballet infused with contemporary and street dance.

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erman production company satis&fy supplied the fixtures.

Thomas Gerdon Turns to Elation Platinum FLX, SixBar 1000 Battens for Corporate Gig

MUNICH – When one of Germany’s top lighting designers for broadcast, Thomas Gerdon, needed a multi-purpose luminaire to fulfil a number of roles for a major product presentation in TV show format, he looked no further than Elation’s hybrid Platinum FLX™ luminaire. “It was a quick decision to choose the FLX for the job,” says Gerdon, who has called the luminaire one of the best hybrids on the market and is well familiar with its multi-functional abilities.

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S+H Adds Star Quality for National Eisteddfod of Wales

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WALES – S+H Technical Support provided substantial quantities of its LED starcloth product to production designer Sid Scott of Scott Callaghan Art Production for the 2017 National Eisteddfod of Wales. The 9-day event was staged in a large field near Bodedern on Ynys Môn (the Isle of Anglesey), around 8 miles from Caergybi (Holyhead) and approximately 20 miles from Bangor on mainland Wales.

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George Washington’s tent in its display, with a video backdrop and lighting featuring ETC ColorSource fixtures. Lighting design by Available Light.

ETC and Available Light Transform George Washington’s Tent

PHILADELPHIA – George Washington’s tent – yes, that George Washington – is a featured attraction within the Museum of the American Revolution, which opened in Philadelphia in April. It’s lit with ETC ColorSource fixtures, part of a design by Ted Mather and Rachel Gibney from New York City’s Available Light.

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GLP Announces Plans for PLASA 2017

LONDON – GLP arrives at this year’s PLASA Show riding the crest of a wave. The burgeoning UK operation, now under the stewardship of the experienced Simon Barrett and David Stewart, will be presenting a portfolio of unique LED and hybrid solutions. These have captured the imagination of designers worldwide over the past year, and their attributes can be seen in regular interactive lightshows choreographed by leading LD (and 2017 KOI nominated LD) Tom Campbell, who has been using quantities of GLP’s X4 Bars on tour with Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, while GLP products will also feature heavily on singer-songwriter Nick Mulvey’s upcoming tour.

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Rogues Help Megan Alksninis Balance Elegance and Rock at IYRS Gala

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NEWPORT, RI – For the 20th annual IYRS Gala, a fundraiser for the International Yacht Restoration School, which has campuses in Newport and Bristol, RI, Megan Alksninis lit the school’s Newport campus for the gala dinner and auction before turning up the visual heat with rock show looks for Kool and the Gang, the featured entertainers for the evening.

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Mysteryland 2017

MegaPointe Makes Mega Impact at Mysteryland

HAARLEMMERMEER, The Netherlands –  Twenty of Robe’s new MegaPointe fixtures were used for the Main Stage at Mysteryland 2017, one of the Netherlands’ best established and most popular dance music extravaganzas. The MegaPointes were part of an impressive production lighting design by Sander den Otter from T-MINUS Design for the two-day event staged at Haarlemmermeer, a nature reserve just outside Amsterdam on Aug. 26-27.

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Litepanels Gemini 2x1 Panel

Litepanels Gemini 2×1 Panel

 Litepanels®, a pioneer in LED lighting for the film, photographic, and broadcast industries and a Vitec Group brand, today introduced the Litepanels Gemini — an all-new 2×1, RGB-WW soft panel that combines daylight, tungsten, and red-green-blue LEDs to deliver highly flexible and precise color adjustment. The Gemini soft panel produces true, full-spectrum white light and an extensive choice of control options designed to suit any professional lighting application. Visitors to IBC2017 will get an exclusive first look at Gemini’s high-quality light output on the Litepanels stand (12.E65).

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