LONDON – UK theatrical suppliers Hawthorns recently supported LD Jonathan Samuels’ design of the Breakin’ Convention International Festival of Hip Hop Dance with a charitable loan of nine Clay Paky 1200 Profiles. The event at Sadler’s Wells Theatre featured an international line-up of dancers, whose performances required lighting to accommodate with shuttering and gobos.
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LONDON – Green Hippo introduces Adrian Gilby and Philippe Levieux as new members of the software development team. Levieux joins the programming team as Researcher and Software Developer in the production of new features for Hippotizer software. As a programmer and Software Developer, Gilby will work on specifying, designing and implementing new features for Green Hippo’s existing and future range of products.
Read More »PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ – The Rental and Staging Network (RSN), a network of geographically-diverse rental and staging companies with complete event capabilities, showed their commitment to charitable giving through in-kind and monetary donations totaling $646,413 in 2011. Make-A-Wish Foundation was the biggest benefactor.
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BURBANK, CA – Chaos Visual Productions US is supplying a full complement of projection equipment and various crew members to Lady Antebellum’s first headlining tour, designed by LD Baz Halpin. The second leg of the “Own the Night” arena tour kicks off Jan. 27 in Tulsa, OK.
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SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, Quebec — Following a tempestuous season of outdoor festivals worldwide, the Berger Group, makers of Mega-Stage products, have introduced outdoor stages designed for higher resistance to powerful winds. The company said that its MK4 stage, among the world’s largest, is designed to withstand winds of up to 120 km/h (80 mph) with the wind walls in place and 160 km/h (100 mph) without wind walls.
Read More »SYRACUSE, NY – The new Parker Arts Culture and Events Center in Parker, CO, opened in late 2011 with a new 536-seat theatre. A slate of diverse shows are now taking place because of J.R. Clancy’s automated rigging system, installed by Barbizon Light of the Rockies.
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HITCHIN, HERTS, UK – Coldplay’s 12-date European arena tour featured a set designed by Misty Buckley and Paul Normandale, with specialist pieces by UK-based Brilliant Stages. Band frontman Chris Martin envisioned the tour as a “ball of energy with a warm nucleus reaching out to the audience,” so the design had to reflect that, taking into account the size of the arenas as well as the song lyrics being sung.
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LONDON – Lester Cobrin joins XL Video UK as Senior Project Manager. Cobrin has 20 years of experience in the lighting and live production industry, most recently at Bandit Lites.
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Global Special Effects says its CO2 Cryo-Jets can make any dance floor go from 90 degrees to 30 degrees in 6 seconds. They create plumes of cryo-fog up to 30 feet in the air and can be hung from a truss or mounted from a wall or the floor. There’s no need to worry about any smoke alarms, as CO2 leaves the room clean with no residue. The unit comes with a 30-foot hose to connect to a CO2 tank. The cost is $1,500 plus shipping. The Cryo-Jet is also available in stainless steel for an additional $250.
Read More »AUSTIN, TX — PLASA Focus, set for Feb. 22-23 at the Renaissance Austin, will feature 50 exhibitors and a two-day program of free professional development sessions. Along with sessions staged by the Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas, The Broadway Green Alliance, Austin City Limits Live, The Production Equipment Rental Group (PERG) and the Long Centre for the Performing Arts, there will be a presentation by LD Peter Morse and a session on advanced mapping techniques using Hippotizer media servers.
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