SOUTH KIRBY, Yorkshire, UK – Staging and design professionals working in the entertainment industry have been sharing their on-the-job knowledge with 52 students enrolled in a month-long Staging module that is part of the curriculum at Backstage Academy here. The students are taking Backstage Academy’s Foundation Degree Course in Live Events Production.
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UK – Two UK lighting rental companies were among the first on the UK mainland to receive delivery of Robe’s new multipurpose moving light, the Pointe. Southampton-based GLS took 24 and Bristol-based Fineline took 12 units in this initial delivery, coordinated by Ian W Brown of Robe UK.
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UK – Blackout’s team designed a custom-built touring truss structure for the firstseries of ‘Sky Art’s Portrait Artist of the Year’ competition, due on screens this autumn. The reality TV show visited four locations across the UK – London, Cardiff, Glasgow and Dublin – with more than 2,000 entrants battling out to win the title. The winner will see their work displayed in the National Portrait Gallery and awarded a £10,000 commission to produce a portrait of award-winning author Hilary Mantel.
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MADRID — Since its debut in September 2012, reality TV singing competition “The Voice,” or “La Voz,” in Spain, has become a social phenomenon. To help accentuate the live performances, live drama and the jury of popular Spanish singers, Madrid-based rental, sales and installation company Citylight installed a complete Harman Martin MAC lighting rig.
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CHICAGO – JR Lighting Design, Inc. provided Chicago’s Adler Planetarium with a mix of design, lighting and special-effects elements for the recently renovated Samuel C. Johnson Family Star Theater installation. LDs Jason Reberski and Eric Price used a mix of technologies to achieve a cohesive vision.
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MINNETONKA, MN – Vaddio announced that it has added Bernadette Yard, who joined the company’s marketing team in 2010, to its inside sales team. In her new role, Yard will coordinate and provide video product demonstrations worldwide, provide sales support to Vaddio manufacturer reps and dealers and assist with system configurations, pricing, part numbers and availability.
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COLOGNE, Germany – European lighting and visuals designer Manfred Ollie Olma of mo2 design tried out 12 of Robe’s new Pointe moving lights for a recent episode of “Die Ultimative Chart Show.” The program is broadcast weekly on RTL and recorded at Nobeo 8 Studio in Hürth, near Cologne.
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LAS VEGAS – Developer/partners Cirque du Soleil and The Light Group recently opened a new nightclub, Light, at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas. Part Cirque show and part dance club, it features 38,000 sq. ft. of space and a 35-high high ceiling with acrobats spinning overhead and EDM DJs spinning up front. LDs John Lyons and Richard Worboys of John Lyons Systems (Hollywood, CA) had the extra challenge of illuminating an adjacent 50,000 sq. ft. outdoor Mediterranean-style pool/beach club area called Daylight. They chose more than 450 Elation Professional fixtures for both spaces.
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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Immersive specialist Igloo Vision was commissioned by United Arab Emirates to create a 360-degree immersive installation for the La Biennale di Venezia 2013, the 53rd annual art exhibition that incorporates F22 projectors from projectiondesign. Mounted at the New National Pavilion, Mohammed Kazem makes a visual contribution to “Walking on Water.”
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MOSCOW – Clay Paky’s A.leda Wash K20 luminaires and Sharpys have teamed up to create a Las Vegas-style light show to launch at new floating restaurant in Moscow. The locally-based Arlecchino Group, which supplies lighting to events across the region, provided A.leda Wash K20s and the Sharpys for the launch of the restaurant on a boat, named ‘Seagull,’ moored in the city’s center.
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WHITE PLAINS, NY — SMPTE will be honored with a 2013 Emmy Award for Technology and Engineering by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences on Jan. 9, 2014, in conjunction with the CES Show in Las Vegas. The honor recognizes SMPTE’s development, standardization and production of the High-Definition Serial Digital Interface (HD-SDI) standard.
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AUSTIN, TX – Le Maitre has made two key appointments to its American team. Today the company appoints Randy Segeren as president of Le Maitre USA LLC, and Carissa Blackwell as operations manager. Segeren plans to expand the dealer network for smoke, haze and pyro and will increase production levels. Blackwell will help expand distribution opportunities.
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