Trocadero Swing-Era Dance Palace Returns for Four Days, with Lighting Controlled by Vista Byron

SYDNEY – From 1936 to 1970, the Trocadero, or "Troc," for short, was Sydney's main big band orchestra venue. Gone for four decades, the venue returned for a four-day period at Sydney Town Hall. The festival offered visitors a huge dance floor and swing music performed by Sydney's all-girl Sirens Big Band. LD Matthew Marshall and programmer Peter Rubie used a Jands Vista T4 running Byron beta software to control a rig that included close to 50 moving lights plus LED and conventional gear.

KARLSTAD, Sweden – The Karlstad Theatre in Sweden is nearly 120 years old and home to the Värmland Opera, founded in 1975. The company produces operatic, musical and orchestral performances, along with school productions. The company tours extensively, within Sweden and beyond.

MANCHESTER, U.K. – HSL (Blackburn, U.K.) provided lighting gear for Don't Scare The Hare, the first BBC TV show to be produced at the new Media City complex & studios in Salford Quays, Greater Manchester. The show, produced by Endemol, airs in April on BBC1. The LD for the project is Tom Kinane. HSL's Sean McGlone served as project manager.

SINGAPORE – The Youth Olympic Games brought 3,500 Olympic hopefuls aged 14 to 18 from 204 countries to Singapore last year to compete in 26 events. The Opening and Closing Ceremonies, seen by 27,000 live and 2 billion via television, were lit with more than 1,900 fixtures provided by PRG. The more than 600 moving lights used for the events included Clay Paky Alpha Beam 1500s and Alpha Spot HPE 1500s.