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Finding Unidamu

Finding Unidamu

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BELGIUM – Belgian visual design practice Painting with Light’s Paco Mispelters has added imagination and style to the current Studio 100 tour of new youth musical “Unidamu”. The tour visits four Belgian theatres and is a co-production with TV channel Ketnet. The Unidamu (Universe of Dance & Music) journey started with “Ketnet Musical”, a talent scouting competition TV show with a mission to source new singing, dancing and acting talent, resulting in 24 fresh and enthusiastic faces picked from 12,000 hopefuls to make up the cast.

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Robe Spiiders Discover the Suffocating Truth

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UK – Robe’s new Spiider LED wash beam is a versatile fixture that is making an impact in many environments … and even a few Spiiders will go a long way as lighting designer Gareth Weaver recently demonstrated when lighting a UK tour of intense dance piece “The Suffocating Truth”, created by Lukas McFarlane of The Untitled Dance Company. The show visited five cities and played totally different spaces in each.

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House and Senate Vote to Fully Fund the National Endowment for the Arts

NEW YORK – Kate Shindle, President of Actors’ Equity, the national labor union representing professional actors and stage managers, released the following statement after the U.S. Senate passed a bill that would fully fund the National Endowment for the Arts for the remainder of the federal government’s fiscal year. The Senate vote comes one day after the U.S. House also voted to fund the NEA and comes weeks after President Trump proposed in his budget to eliminate the NEA entirely.

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NFL Draft and Mountain Productions Break Records at Outdoor Event in Philadelphia

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PHILADELPHIA – Staged entirely outdoors for the first time in its 82-year history, the 2017 NFL Draft brought a record-breaking crowd to the Rocky steps outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The NFL noted that more than 250,000 people attended the event, which ran from April 27-29. In support of the event, coordinators C3 Presents turned to Mountain Productions to provide a 3,000-seat temporary amphitheater. The roof was supported by 20 posts, spanned a downstage width of 250 feet, and the structure exceeded 70 feet in height.

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Seeing Deeper Event At National Cathedral Gets Color Boost From Chauvet

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WASHINGTON, DC – Beach blankets and yoga mats aren’t normally found inside the long, high-ceilinged central nave of the National Cathedral. Recently, however, the iconic church’s usual seats and pews were removed so people could lie down on these coverings to gaze at an astonishing lightshow that transformed the building’s cavernous interior into a vast and infinitely fascinating panorama of color with help from a collection of WELL Fit LED fixtures from CHAUVET Professional.

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Jess Allan

New Concert Touring & Events Chair Announced For the 10th Knight of Illumination Awards

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UK – The Knight of Illumination Awards 2017 (KOI), which celebrates the creative talents of international lighting and digital content designers working in the UK, is delighted to announce the appointment of a new chair of the Concert Touring & Events category – Jess Allan. Well-known in the industry, Jess has worked in professional show lighting and event production for almost 20 years, gaining extensive experience of both technology and design while working in various roles for companies including Martin Professional and TAIT.

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Mother Of The Nation Festival

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ABU DHABI – Spread across ten days — and more than a kilometre of Abu Dhabi’s corniche — the Mother of the Nation Festival (MOTN) celebrates, commemorates and honours the inspirational values of Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak.Via a number of diverse activity zones, the festival again created an entertaining and highly interactive atmosphere, including educational activities, exhibitions and performance, inviting families and individuals from all walks of life to help preserve the Emirati heritage.

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Mavericks Light Justin Bieber on ‘Purpose’ Tour Stop in Peru

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LIMA, Peru – From late March through late April, Justin Bieber’s Purpose world tour was traveling through South America. On April 5, the 23-year-old visited Lima, Peru. DBLUX-SAC provided audio, lighting, video and power for the concert, including 60 Maverick MK1 Hybrid moving heads from Chauvet Professional. Cory FitzGerald designed the lighting looks for the tour.

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Avolites Ensures Perfect Film Lighting for Yes

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MANCHESTER – Yes featuring Anderson, Rabin and Wakeman, a newly formed group of the progressive rock band’s core members, played a well-received show at Manchester Apollo, captured by Eagle Rock Entertainment for DVD. As the filming required precise lighting levels, Jonathan Pask of Illuminate Lighting Ltd designed a reliable multi-user control system of networked Avolites consoles to ensure each look was on point for camera.

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Estonia National Concert Hall Chooses Robe

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ESTONIA – Robe DL7S Profile LED moving lights and PARFect 100 LED PARs have been specified and installed at the prestigious Estonian National Concert Hall (Eesti Kontsert), located in the heart of picturesque capital city Tallinn and home to the Estonian National Orchestra (ENO). The impressive Neoclassical building designed by architects A. Lindgren and W. Lönn in 1913 and reconstructed in 1947 is shared with the Estonian National Opera and the Ballet Theatre Estonia and a proud symbol of Estonia’s political and cultural landscape.

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“Raiding the Rock Vault” Begins Hard Rock Las Vegas Residency

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LOS ANGELES – Fans of classic rock ’n roll are “Raiding the Rock Vault” at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas where iconic anthems from two decades are brought to life by artists from the biggest bands of the era.  The unique show is enhanced with lighting effects created by production designer Paul Dexter using Claypaky SharBars. Dexter, principal of Masterworks Design, Inc., in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, helped create the show, which debuted in fall 2012 at the Mayan Theater in LA.

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Elation Lights Club Nomadic’s Pop-up Nightclub during Super Bowl LI

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HOUSTON – Conceived as a mega-nightclub with no permanent home, Club Nomadic is a traveling venue constructed each year to support the build-up to the Super Bowl. For 2017’s Super Bowl LI, which took place at NRG Stadium in Houston, Nomadic Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of the NFL’s hospitality partner On Location Experiences, began construction of the 62,500 square foot venue on Nov. 28 and opened Feb. 2.

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