EUROPE – LD Luc Lafortune traveled to Paris, Bergamo and Madrid during his cycle of his “Art and Poetry in Stage Lighting” events. The conferences were centered around two of Cirque du Soleil’s most successful shows, Kà and “O.” Lafortune got right down to the roots of the creative process, and shared many behind the scenes stories as well.
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NEW YORK – Production designer Seth Jackson is using grandMA2 consoles on Barry Manilow’s return to Broadway. Bandit Lites supplied the consoles to the St. James Theatre for the entertainer’s limited-run Broadway engagement featuring a huge catalog of his hits.
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LONDON – Clay Paky Sharpys has added high-impact layers in LD Peter Barnes’ design for pop star Cheryl Cole’s tour. Her A Million Lights Tour marked her debut solo arena tour, and visited 10 cities across the UK and Ireland during October.
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BELFAST – Northern Irish band Two Door Cinema Club continued the latest UK leg of their ‘Beacon’ world tour with a lighting design by Chris “Squib” Swain. The design included 32 Robe LEDBeam 100s and 10 Robe MMX Spots from rental company Siyan.
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LOS ANGELES – WorldStage developed and installed a live, moving LED display system for the new studio design for ESPN’s premier NBA show, Kia NBA Countdown.
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NASHVILLE – Little Big Town is on the road with Bandit Lites for The Tornado Tour. Raj Kapoor worked closely with Little Big Town to design the look of a tornado-ravaged set that features the remains of a theatre, with tattered legs and borders hanging across the mid stage. LD Chris Shrom worked with production manager Chris Diener on the production details.
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NASHVILLE — For his recent Take a Back Road tour, Rodney Atkins used a lightweight and flexible LED Curtain video wall from PixelFlex to maximize the concert audiences’ experience through visual images and effects. Atkins’ team plans to use the curtain again for their dates starting in March.
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SANTA ANA, CA – Reinforcing the growing importance of advancing event safety to all live event producers and organizers, Take 1 Insurance announced its full support of the Event Safety Alliance (ESA) and that it will be promoting awareness of the ESA’s new United States Event Safety Guide, which is now open for peer review and comment on the ESA web site, eventsafetyalliance.org.
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LAS VEGAS – Morpheus Lights recently supplied 28 Ayrton Wildsun 500C and 20 Ayrton Rollapix luminaires for the live television broadcast of The Discovery Channel’s “Chopper Live: The Revenge” from The Joint at Las Vegas’ Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. LD Greg Brunton of Design Partners specified the fixtures.
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MEXICO CITY – Northern Italy-based Luci della Ribalta – known as LDR – has appointed Vari Internacional as its exclusive distributor for Mexico for its entire range of products for theatrical and architectural lighting needs. LDR has its own design and assembly facilities, where it develops new products and improves existing designs, complemented by a range of accessories.
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LOS ANGELES – GLP German Light Products GmbH, a manufacturer of automated lighting fixtures in the entertainment industry, appoints Guangzhou Ruisheng Lighting & Audio Equipment Co. Ltd. as their exclusive distributor for China, Taiwan and Macao.
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YPRES, Belgium – Belgium’s new Flanders Fields Museum interprets the regional stories of the First World War using modern museum techniques and multimedia for visitors of today and tomorrow. projectiondesign F22, F32 and F35 wqxga projectors and WB processors were provided by specialist museums system integrator, Ocular BVBA for use some of the exhibit areas, aimed to provide a more in-depth look at how museum visitors deal with war and peace.
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