SYDNEY – Jands Venue Engineering (JVE) and event AV services provider, Staging Connections, worked together on a staging solution for Westin Hotel in the center of the city.
OMAHA, NE – Lighting and visuals designer Fenton Williams and co-LD / programmer Aaron Stinebrink again collaborated to produce a new production design – incorporating lighting, set and video – for the current Dave Matthews Band (DMB) U.S. summer tour. For the first time, they specified Robe’s BMFL Spot fixtures, 22 of which are being supplied by the tour’s lighting vendor, Theatrical Media Services (TMS) from Omaha, Nebraska.
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EDINBURGH – The latest AniMotion live painting, digital art and music show is being presented by Aurora Nova at George Herriot’s School as part of the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The power of original painting created in real-time and projected onto architecture accompanied by live music is a collaboration between projection artist Ross Ashton, percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and visual artist and painter Maria Rud.
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CHARLOTTE, NC – For Toby Keith’s 2015 ‘Good Times and Pick Up Lines’ tour, which runs from May 29-Sept. 26, production designers Seth Jackson and Elizabeth O’Keefe (TPI, St. Louis) used Chauvet Professional Legend 230SR Beams supplied by Bandit Lites to light a series of pantographs to give the production a sleek, high-tech look.
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HUNTINGDON, U.K. – Colour Sound Experiment continued its frenetic 2015 summer festival season supplying lighting to 12 major stages, 24 smaller performance areas and 8 bars at the 2015 Secret Garden Party (SGP) event staged in Abbots Ripton near Huntingdon, UK. Colour Sound’s crew of 22 were chiefed by James Hinde and Alex Ryan. Robe, Clay Paky, SGM, Chauvet and other fixtures were controlled with Avolites consoles. Colour Sound also provided its own Green Hippo controlled BT-6 6 mm LED screens for the festival.
LOS ANGELES – A.C.T Lighting, Inc. promoted Ryan Hindinger to director of sales logistics, a new position. Hindinger, a 2006 graduate of Loyola College in Maryland with a B.A. in English Literature and Theater, began his career in sales with A.C.T Lighting in 2007.
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RALEIGH, NC – CSD Group, Inc., a design/build AVL firm based in Fort Wayne, IN, turned to an all LED Elation lighting package for a new large worship space for Raleigh First Assembly Church. A major renovation of a building previously used as a manufacturing facility, the 1,600-seat worship space houses more than 100 Elation fixtures.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden – For the 10th anniversary edition of Let’s Dance in Sweden, LD Pelle Larsson’s lighting design included 24 Robe Pointe moving lights installed in prominent positions around the dance floor and amidst the orchestra. Pelle Larsson worked on the project with others at LD Sweden including daughter Kim and son Rasmus. Another son, Robin, was overseeing lighting for an antiques quiz show, Gladiators for TV4, which was being recorded elsewhere. Also working for Pelle Larsson’s company, LD Sweden, is Daniel de Sivo.
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BUFFALO, NY – Katie Gilliland, production manager at the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts, found FLEXCurtain HD from PixelFLEX to be a good fit for the needs of “Electric Tundra,” an EDM concert featuring Bingo Players, 3LAU and DNNYD. Along with brightness and resolution, she cited the rigging advantages of the lightweight panels, noting that the 20’ x 8’ video wall used for the 6,500-seat arena weighed only 250 pounds.
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FRESNO, CA – Clint Higham, president of Morris Higham Management, and David Haskell, president of Morris Light and Sound of Nashville, helped Fresno, CA-based theatre company Good Company Players upgrade their lighting looks with new gear sourced via A.C.T Lighting: the new MA dot2 lighting console and two additional Clay Paky Mythos moving lights.