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The Minneapolis Armory Reopens with Horizon EDM Tour, Chauvet Lighting and Video

The Minneapolis Armory Reopens with Horizon EDM Tour, Chauvet Lighting and Video

MINNEAPOLIS, MN – For the second-to-last stop on the Horizon tour, featuring EDM acts Kill The Noise, Tritonal and Seven Lions, LD Daniel Thibault of Life Is Art Studios used Chauvet Professional Rogue fixtures and PVP S5 video panels supplied by Antic Studio to light the recently-refurbished 8,400-capacity Armory in Minneapolis. The tour, which launched in late October at the Brooklyn Hangar in New York, finished up the next night at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom.

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Syracuse Stage’s “The Wizard of Oz” Brightens with Elation’s Artiste DaVinci Fixtures

SYRACUSE, NY – LD Herrick Goldman used Elation Professional’s Artiste DaVinci LED moving head spot for color and visual effects on a Syracuse Stage production of “The Wizard of Oz.” Goldman credited the fixture as a flexible workhorse that performed a number of duties throughout the show. “The DaVinci took so much of the workload, I could have saved the time and energy of hanging 25 percent of the light plot,” he said.

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SpongeBob in the Sea with Boulders

There have been few Broadway shows as exuberantly trippy as SpongeBob SquarePants, a crowd-pleasing, family-friendly show inspired by the television series. This live version — which features original songs by the likes of Panic! At The Disco, Cyndi Lauper, and the Flaming Lips, among many others — crams as much colorful scenery and costumes and energetic song and dance numbers as it can into its two and a half hour stage time.

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Halsey ‘Hopeless Fountain Kingdom’ Tour

Singer-songwriter Halsey exploded on the music scene when she put out her debut 2015 platinum selling debut album, Badlands. Along with the huge 2016 collaboration with The Chainsmokers on the song “Closer,” Halsey is now touring arenas in support of her 2017 second album, Hopeless Fountain Kingdom. We spoke with the tour’s lighting designer Sooner Routhier, production designer Robert Long (both of SRae Productions) and lighting director and programmer Craig Rutherford.

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It’s a Christmas Miracle – ‘A Christmas Carol’ at the Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY

The current production of Charles Dickens’ classic story, A Christmas Carol, was the 32nd annual version of the show at the Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY. When it got its start in 1985, the technical crew breathed a sigh of relief that the one-season wonder made it through the holidays. Now the show is a firmly established Christmas tradition in upper New York State.

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Myles Mangino

We caught up with Myles Mangino last month as his longtime friends, The Pixies, finish up the last couple months of a touring cycle that’s lasted over a year. In 2016, they celebrated their 30th year (though there was a lull for a while) and have been gigging consistently. Myles has been with them every step of the way. And a twisted beginning it was.

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Luxium Lighting

Founded in 2014 by “serial entrepreneur” Arlie Conner, Luxium Lighting was originally conceived as an entity that would target “an interesting little niche market,” Conner says, supplying school auditoriums and other theatrical venues with the fixtures they’d need as they migrated away from conventional lighting and toward LEDs…For 2018, fresh off the success at the 2017 LDI show, the company, based in the Portland, Oregon’s “silicon forest” region, is poised for growth, led by a core team of three partners — Conner, the inventor of the company’s products; Roger Hicks, the marketing guru; and Tom Roth, who is in charge of sales, setting up channels and all things customer-related.

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