Childish Gambino Performance in London Lit with Vari-Lite Gear

LONDON – US rapper Childish Gambino’s recent London show used 18 VL3000 Wash luminaires and 16 VL2000 spots. “Childish Gambino’s show is very theatrical, not a typical rap concert,” explains LD Sarah Landau. “The visual design is focused on projections – four 20K projectors mapped onto an upstage screen, a downstage scrim, side columns, and stage set pieces. The Vari-Lite luminaires illuminated the artists without obstructing or washing out any of the projections, as well as matched their colours and textures to create a cohesive environment onstage.”

GLASGOW, Scotland – Lighting and rigging specialists dbn provided lighting for ‘Sound To Sea’, a night-time nautical spectacle staged on the River Clyde here. The visuals spanned a large distance, from the top of the Science Centre roof, where the aerialists performed, to the boats maneuvering in the dock, reaching right along to Glasgow Tower at the end of the Science Centre, which was lit up with carefully choreographed pyro sequences.

LONDON – Lighting designer Jon Clark has specified Showline’s SL Bar 640 luminaries production of A Streetcar Named Desire at The Young Vic. “The SL BAR 640 luminaires allow us to achieve a deep and intense color saturation,” notes Clark. “The range of colors the units can accurately reproduce is impressive; from dirty, sickly yellows and greens to deeply saturated reds and low frequency blues.”

LONDON – Patrick Rizzotti will give a presentation on his set designs at USITT’s PLASA booth at London’s ExCeL Center, Stand R42, on Oct. 6. Rizzotti won USITT’s 2014 Scene Design Award, which is sponsored by Rose Brand. USITT Executive Director David Grindle and several USITT officers and staff also will be at the show promoting USITT programs and the Annual Conference & Stage Expo. Rizzotti was among 11 Young Designers & Technicians honored at USITT 2014 in Fort Worth, Texas, last March.

NORMANDY, France – The Abbey of Saint Wandrille here sought to improve the church’s indoor lighting with more state-of-the-art illumination, but as silence plays a central role in the Benedictine tradition, absolute silence was a must. Thirty-five Elation TVL 3000 fixtures are mounted on a series of oak beams along the nave of the church, each fixture drawing a low 72W of power and using silent convection cooling technology to eliminate fan noise.