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Maximum Impact 8 Tour in U.K. Lit with Elation Gear

TNA Wrestling’s Maximum Impact 8 Tour in U.K. Lit with Elation Gear

LONDON — With a loyal fan base in the UK eager to see their favorite wrestler vie for ring dominance, American professional wrestling organization TNA Wrestling traveled to England earlier in the year for a series of arena shows dubbed the Maximum Impact 8 Tour. This year’s lighting rig centered on Elation Platinum Beam 5R Extreme and Platinum Wash ZFX Pro moving heads. 

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Clay Paky Scenius

Clay Paky Scenius Fixtures Make the Scene at MTVU’s “Woodies/10 for 16” Awards Show at SXSW

AUSTIN, TX – MTVU’s Woodie Awards returned to SXSW in Austin, Texas where Clay Paky Scenius moving head spotlights made their show debut during the performance of London-based electro-pop artist Jack Garratt.  Tom Kenny also returned for the third consecutive year as lighting designer of the show, which celebrates the music voted best by college students. 

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Chroma-Q Space Force LED Soft Light

Chroma-Q Space Force LED Soft Light

Chroma-Q’s Space Force LED Soft Light, featured at Prolight + Sound 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany, is available in North America as well and is now shipping. The Space Force is a cutting-edge variable white LED Space Light that is a modern replacement for conventional space lights or soft light sources commonly used in film and TV studios around the world. The fixture benefits from cool running, energy efficiency, lightweight design and minimum maintenance.

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Vejle Musikteater

Major Venue in Vejle, Denmark Invests in Robe Fixtures

VEJLE, Denmark — Vejle Musikteater, a performing arts venue that is home to a 1,134-seat Great Hall and the 300-seat Jacob Gade Hall, upgraded with new gear from Robe. The venue has invested in over 50 Robe fixtures, including MMX Spots and LEDWash 600 moving lights and PARfect 100s in the last three years, a move instigated by Technical Manager Tor Futtrup.

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Nook Schoenfeld

The Inevitable Death of Tungsten

I’m proud of the diversity of our articles because we cover so many different stories, from so many different angles. With every story I read, I usually get a spark of info that leads me to think along another tangent. If the spark is big enough, I may expand on it and offer an opinion on something. Such a thing happened in the article we publish this month featuring Don Holder lighting the revamped Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway (see “Inside Theatre“).

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LD Matt Mills

LD Matt Mills with Disturbed

TOUR: Immortalized Tour

DATES: Feb. 2016 into 2017

THE DESIGN: “My intent was to do a 100 percent LED rig. I got close, but at the last minute, I changed the profile fixtures out. I really needed a bit more horsepower to cut through the wash. There were several conference calls about ideas and direction. I was their LD when they went on hiatus back in 2011, and was flattered to get the call back. Fortunately, there was already a relationship built, and we picked right up where we left off.”

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Photo by Joan Marcus

White Box Magic: LD Don Holder’s Design for ‘Fiddler On the Roof’

Unlike the typical Broadway show, director Bartlett Sher’s new revival of the iconic musical, Fiddler On The Roof, takes place in a white box setting with a highly reflective back wall, which allowed Tony Award-winning lighting designer Donald Holder the chance to play and sculpt with light in fun ways. “I got a lot of the responsibility for changing the space, of transforming it from one location to the other, one season to the next,” he tells PLSN. “It was real, pure storytelling through light. You don’t always get that opportunity. It was a challenge, but also a joy.”

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PLSN Show Report - 2016 Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, Germany

Prolight + Sound 2016 Show Report

The 2016 Prolight + Sound and Musikmesse exhibitions in Frankfurt, Germany swapped physical locations this year, and instead of being held concurrently, the show dates were staggered, with Prolight + Sound running April 5-8 and Musikmesse held April 7-10. It’s part of the organizer’s re-launch of Musikmesse from a trade fair to more of a consumer music event and festival. Not everyone was happy with the changes, of course, but that didn’t hurt the overall stats for Prolight + Sound — which enjoyed an increase in total exhibitors (from 920 to 940) and a 16 percent increase in the exhibition display area. And as ever, there were plenty of technological advances on show.

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