LONDON – The inaugural Backstage Professional Development Conference (BPDC) in partnership with the Association of British Theatre Technicians will take place on Saturday March 18 at The Barbican Centre, London.
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WASHINGTON, DC – Tritonal, a duo that includes Austin, TX-based producer/DJs Chad Cisneros and David Reed, has been touring in support of their 2016 album release, Painting With Dreams. Tritonal’s lighting designer, Aaron Kovelman of The Hauss Collective turned to Brett Angstadt of Round Peg Productions for a visual assist with a show last fall at Echostage in Washington, DC. Angstadt made use of Chauvet Professional’s Nexus panels to complement the stage looks at the event, which also included tungsten looks from Chauvet’s Strike 4 LED fixtures.
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PASADENA, CA – Absolute Live Productions used JVC’s KY-PZ100 robotic PTZ IP video production camera to stream live footage from a client’s float during the annual Rose Parade New Year’s festivities in Pasadena, CA.
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MONTERREY, Mexico — Philips Lighting noted that Justin Bieber’s Purpose world tour, which ranked #6 worldwide in Pollstar‘s 2016 Top Tour rankings based on gross revenues, is being reworked for more stadium dates in 2017. The 2017 tour includes dates in Mexico, Australia and South America before heading to Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.
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LONDON – S+H Technical Support supplied a large quantity of its LED Starcloth to be used as a complete wrap around the stage and audience seating for a one-off Christmas Special of the popular 1980’s comedy games show ‘Blankety Blank’ … which was hosted by David Walliams and broadcast by ITV on Christmas Eve. The show was recorded in Studio 1 of London Studios in Waterloo, central London in front of a live audience of 400, with a set design by Joshua Grace who specified the starcloth.
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UK – Camberley Theatre, a thriving performance venue in Camberley Surrey southwest of London, has recently undergone extensive refurbishment, including significant additions to its in-house lighting. A new installation of Elation Professional fixtures, supplied by Yes Events Ltd, provides maximum flexibility for this multipurpose community space. The 408-seat theatre has replaced its house lights with the high-power, color-controllable Colour Pendant™ LED downlight.
ANAHEIM, CA — ADJ is putting special emphasis on three new products at the 2017 Winter NAMM show in Anaheim this year, starting with the company’s POW-R BAR65, which is designed to make it safer and easier to connect multiple electric devices. ADJ is also putting the spotlight on its Boom Box FX1 and Boom Box FX2 multi-effect fixtures. Each offers four separate lighting effects from a single compact unit.
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HELOTES, TX — Mega Systems, Inc. announced a new U.S. distribution agreement with Truss Aluminum Factory (TAF), a Czech Republic-based company that entered the U.S. market in 2009.
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SEOUL — Total Korea Lighting & Sound (TKLS) recently added 24 of GLP’s impression X4 Bar 20 lighting battens to the company’s inventory. The two-dozen fixtures, representing the first purchase of GLP products by Total Korea, went straight onto a major production of the Verdi opera, Aida, which will be running in Seoul until March 2017.
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SOUTH BURLINGTON, VT — Madaila, a Vermont-based jam band with a stage presence that elicits comparisons to Phish, performed a New Year’s Eve show at Higher Ground in Burlington with lighting by house LD Kyle Rose, who lit the band with Rogue fixtures from Chauvet Professional.
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LAS VEGAS – The year-end numbers are in, and whatever else you may have been thinking about how things in 2016 went down, live concert ticket sales are up, according Pollstar. Total sales for the top 10 tours worldwide, featuring, in order, Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band, Beyoncé, Coldplay, Guns N’ Roses, Adele, Justin Bieber, Paul McCartney, Garth Brooks, the Rolling Stones and Celine Dion hit $1.67 billion — an 11.3 percent gain on the $1.5 billion pulled in by the top 10 tours in 2015.
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NEW YORK — All four ETCP examinations will be given on one session at USITT in St. Louis, MO on the morning of Saturday, March 11, 2017. The deadline is quickly approaching. Interested applicants must submit their application, along with supporting materials and fee, to the ETCP office no later than February 14, 2017. The ETCP office is located at 630 9th Ave, Suite 609, New York, New York, 10036. USITT members and employees receive a $100 discount on examination fees.
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