LONDON — Luc Peumans from Belgian creative lighting design practice Painting With Light worked on the Music Hall Events arena production, Peter Pan, the Never Ending Story, with creative director Luc Petit and Music Hall’s Geert Allaert. The elaborate production recently finished its tour of the U.K. and will head to Dubai, UAE and Turkey later this year.
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LONDON — The High Definition Warehouse Event staged in Great Suffolk Street Warehouse here last fall featured EMTO’s Mambo 8 LED screen to clad the front of the DJ booth and also for a backdrop behind it in the event’s Arch 2 arena.
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NEW YORK — On Jan. 1, Bill de Blasio took over for Michael Bloomberg as Mayor of New York City. As part of the process of welcoming the first new mayor since Bloomberg took over for Rudy Giuliani in 2002, a non-partisan citywide project, “Talking Transition,” invited New Yorkers to share their views about the city’s future. The project was based within a temporary tent-like complex at Hudson Square at Canal and Varick Streets in Manhattan. WorldStage supported the temporary location’s lighting needs.
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NEW YORK — ETC opened its remodeled offices here Dec. 11 with a celebration that drew more than 250 lighting and rigging professionals to see the company’s remodeled offices and product labs.
Read More »Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. announced a Japanese-language version of the Vectorworks 2014, including Vectorworks Designer, Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Fundamentals and Renderworks design software.
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LONDON — Lighting and stage designer Andy Hurst included Clay Paky’s Sharpy fixtures for electronic dance music duo Chase and Status’s arena tour last fall. Blackburn, U.K.-based HSL provided the fixtures which complemented the curved truss set design and video visuals.
Read More »COLUMBUS, OH — A load-out accident following the Jan. 16 Luke Bryan concert at Ohio State University’s Schottenstein Center sent four crew members to the hospital with minor injuries. Reports noted a chain of events involving a forklift, video gear and stage structure elements, with both crew and gear falling in the partial structural collapse.
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