LONDON – Contemporary circus troupe, No Fit State, recently welcomed the latest performing member to its troupe: The Avolites Tiger Touch. The design, originally conceived by LD Adam Cobley, is taken care of on tour by lighting director and programmer Leif Le Page, who says that fast, on the fly access to the lighting is crucial for this latest production of “Bianco.”
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MINNEAPOLIS — Portable staging equipment company Staging Concepts launches its newest product, the Aluminum Crowd Control Barricade. The barricade has an integral step on the surveillance of each barricade section for security personal to administer additional crowd control.
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LONDON – PRG teamed up with Harvey Goldsmith promotions at Twickenham in June to supply the rigging and lighting for the Chime For Change concert headlined by Beyonce and Madonna. Dubbed a ‘feminist Live Aid,’ the production featured a ine up of big name stars and a 50,000-strong audience to campaign for improved education, health and justice for women around the world.
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OMAHA, NE – The Lifegate Church in Omaha – currently moving to a new campus – needed to remodel its existing stage and lighting. Local GLP dealers Heartland Scenic — who meet around 80 percent of the church’s lighting needs — steered the decision toward the GLP solution.
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MOSCOW – Moscow’s Teresa Durova Teatrium na Serpukhovke performance venue has invested in Philips Selecon’s PLCyc1 luminaires in a major upgrade to its lighting equipment, replacing a dozen 1250W asymmetric tungsten cyc floods. The Theatre’s head of lighting, Vladimir Evstifeyev, invested in the PLCyc1s after testing them in the venue in early 2013.
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MIDDLETON, WI — ETC has opened registration for its second CUE event for end-users. The biennial three-day educational event is set to take place at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison, WI from July 23-25. The event is open to all people interested in learning more about how to use ETC products, along with more information about ETC.
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WEST, TX – Nearly two months after a catastrophic fertilizer plant explosion killed 15 people, injured more than 200 and destroyed structures in West, TX, the Dallas Mavericks and FOX Sports Southwest staged a major event in West on June 15 to support the restoration effort. To ensure that residents had a front-row view of the action, the Mavericks asked GoVision to provide one of its mobile LED units for the festivities. The Argyle, TX-based company sent a 9 ft x 16 ft “GoBig” LED screen, comprised of Daktronics PST-16HD tiles, to ensure that all could see the festivities.
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FRESNO, CA – Peoples Church allocates a small portion of its overall budget each year to upgrading its stage lighting. This year, Chadwell D. Hopper of CDH Productions made use of LED fixtures from ADJ Products to add visual dazzle to services within the church’s 2,000-capacity auditorium while staying comfortably within the church’s lighting budget.
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NORMANDY, France – The nuclear blast at Hiroshima in 1945 is often described in Japanese as a flash (pika) followed by a bang (don). Last year, a performance lit with ETC Source Four LED Lustr+ fixtures aimed to represent the unexpected terror of the pika don through the medium of dance. Un Coup de Don, by dance company Ariadone and led by Carlotta Ikeda and Ko Morobushi (Japan), was part of the Festival Automne in Normandy, France.
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BRAZIL – Paul McCartney’s ‘Out There’ world tour kicked off with three shows in Brazil with lighting looks from LD Roy Bennett. Bennett supervised the shows, while Lighting Director Wally Lees operated. Lighting equipment was supplied by leading Brazilian rental company LPL Professional Lighting and included Robe ColorSpot and ColorWash luminaires, together with other moving lights and generics.
Read More »PHUKET CITY, Thailand — A stage structure set up for performances accompanying the Phuket Prison Fair at the Saphan Hin public park here killed one person and injured another after collapsing in high winds at about 7:40 pm on June 17. Winds from the same storm were also fierce enough to rip the roofs off more than a dozen homes in the Phang Nga area, according to a report posted by Phuketwan, a local news source.
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Just in time for the shipping of Harman Martin’s new flagship lighting console, the M6, Martin has released a new software version for M-Series consoles with hundreds of improvements and a new user-interface, designed to make programming performances easier and more efficient.
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