AUSTRIA—AV Stumpfl and automation specialist Beckhoff Automation recently announced their technology partnership. The aim of the collaboration is the integration of automation components from Beckhoff into the new show control system, PIXERA control.Read More »PIXERA Control Integrates PC-Based Automation and Control Technology from Beckhoff
Elation Professional’s LightJockey is one of the longest available lighting control software solutions on the market. Now, after over two decades of service and with tens of thousands of systems in the market, the time has come for LightJockey to gracefully retire.Read More »LightJockey – The End of an Era
AUSTRIA—For the two-million or so Austrians who tuned in every Monday to watch the country’s 2021 Ninja Warrior championships, keeping pace with the gifted young athletes as they raced across unstable bridges, swung along series of hanging rings, and hauled heavy weights up a “Salmon Ladder,” would have seemed like an impossible task. But, for Bernhard Endl, it was a matter of routine.Read More »Bernhard Endl Meets Ninja Warrior Austria Challenge with ChamSys MagicQ MQ500M
The latest Ghostbusters movie, released in the U.S. on Nov. 19, was filmed in the Calgary, Alberta area in 2019. Local production company Digital Media Integrations provided ADJ gear to brighten the opening weekend festivities in Calgary, which included a special screening of the movie for cast and crew just prior to the movie’s general release.
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DENMARK—Cirkusrevyen (Circus Review) is hugely popular and the longest-running review performance in Denmark, with a six-month season kicking off every year since 1935 except for 1945 (due to fire) and 2020 (due to COVID). Staged in a purpose-built big top tent in Klampenborg, Dyrehavsbakken north of Copenhagen, they’re known and loved for its incisive and hilarious style of political satire. The 2021 season was lit for the first-time using Robe ESPRITE moving lights.Read More »Cirkusrevyen Gets Laughing with Robe
USITT announced the 2022 Distinguished Achievement Award Winners who will be lauded at the 2022 USITT Conference, which is set to take place as an in-person event in Baltimore, MD from March 2-5, 2022. Honorees include Michael Hooker (Sound Design), Terri Purcell (Costume Design), Donyale Werle (Scenic Design), Dick Block (Education), and John McKernon (Lighting Design).
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USA–Production designer Niller Bjerregaard turned to a large inventory of GLP fixtures, dominated by the JDC1 hybrid strobe and impression X4 Bar 20 batten, when… Read More »GLP Lights Volbeat’s Aftershock Show
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NETHERLANDS—AV rental and production company Houben Souren has installed Elation Fuze Profile™ and Colour 5 Profile™ luminaires in two auditoriums in the recently refurbished Maastricht Exhibition and Convention Center (MECC) in the Netherlands. As the audiovisual partner for the biggest convention center in the southern part of the country, Houben Souren enjoys special insight into the audiovisual needs of the venue and drew upon its close relationship with Elation’s European office to realize a successful installation. Read More »Houben Souren and Elation Team Up on MECC Auditorium Renewals
DTS, the Italian professional lighting company has won the LDI2021 Best Debuting Product Award for Lighting – Entertainment for its Alchemy 7 wash moving head luminaire. The award, which was presented during the LDI exhibition in Las Vegas, was given to its latest wash moving head announced by the company in 2021.Read More »DTS Wins LDI2021’s Best Debuting Product Award, Lighting – Entertainment for its Alchemy 7
Home to a technically advanced film production complex, Garden Studios in London is a one-stop-shop for a wide variety of TV and film productions, designed specifically to support the latest technologies as well as decades of future innovation. Its in-house Virtual Production stage is driven by Brompton Tessera processing, ensuring it delivers superb image quality to every production that comes through its doors.Read More »Brompton Technology and London’s Garden Studios Form Partnership to Deliver the Future of VP Today
Wenger Corporation announces the addition of a custom Diva® Acoustical Shell at Belmont University’s Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in Nashville, TN. The shell complements the majestic architecture at Belmont and will accommodate the school’s dance, theatre, and musical performances, as well as an array of special events, including performances by the Nashville Ballet, Nashville Opera, traveling Broadway shows, and international artists.Read More »Belmont’s Masterpiece: Custom Shell Helps All Performers Shine
NASHVILLE – Bandit Lites has been nominated for Best Concert Visuals at the 33rd Annual Pollstar 2022 Awards. The awards will return to their original… Read More »Bandit Lites Nominated for Pollstar 2022 Award
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