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Backstage Production Group Adds Glow to SIBIU Theatre Festival With CHAUVET Professional Fixtures

This June, the Sibiu International Theatre Festival, hailed as “Romania’s Miracle.”  was put on by The National Theatre Radu Stanca Sibiu, featuring indoor and outdoor theatre, music and dance, as well as street acts, drew more than 100,000 international visitors. Adding to the magic of the 2024 edition of the festival, which was built around the theme of “friendship,”  was a massive collection of over 250 CHAUVET Professional fixtures supplied and installed by Andrei Popea (“MAC”) and his team at Backstage Production Group.

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CHAUVET Professional Color STRIKE M Supercharges I Prevail, Halestorm Co-Headline Tour

The I Prevail-Halestorm co-headline 24-city summer tour wowed fans with a dynamic design by Chris Denholm that featured 40 CHAUVET Professional Color STRIKE M motorized strobe-washes from PGP. Denholm worked with Mathias “Mathes” Kuhn, who designed the Halestorm floor package and co-programed their show with Rodger Pugh. Other collaborators included Anthony Tran, who did most of the video edits; and Jeff Maker, the LD for I Prevail.

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Concept K Lights Solidays Main Stage with 100 Elation SŌL I Blinders

Creative design practice Concept K employed 100 Elation SŌL I Blinders at the Solidays Festival in Paris at the end of June, one of the first uses in Europe of the creative blinder and effect light. Lighting supply was by Dushow, a festival provider for many years, with lighting design by Frédéric “Aldo” Fayard of Concept K. 

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Stunning World Debut as 168 GLP impression X5 IP Maxx Join the AC/DC Tour

Neg Earth supremo Dave Ridgway came to the assistance of Creative Director and Lighting Designer Terry Cook when he was seeking the kind of raw power from a new generation washlight that audiences at an AC/DC show might expect. Ridgway recommended GLP’s impression X5 IP Maxx. Cook’s conclusion: “It brought meanness, real character, and was unapologetically angry. It was definitely an AC/DC light.”

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LightParts Celebrates Surviving 20 Years in The Entertainment Lighting Biz

LightParts Inc., the parts and repair source for entertainment lighting, is celebrating surviving for 20 years in the entertainment lighting business. And a pandemic too! LightParts was founded in 2004 by Don Pugh and Robert Mokry as the worldwide support center for High End Systems’ legacy products like Intellabeam and Emulator.

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ADJ Encore LP12IP Luminaires Selected to Illuminate Prestigious Houston Fashion Show

Houston’s Trailblazers Awards luncheon and fashion show kicks off the city’s Rodeo season in style. To illuminate the huge catwalk with an even coverage of high-quality light, local Houston-based production company Stage Directions invested in a significant quantity of ADJ fixtures, as well as additional fixtures from ADJ’s sister company Elation.

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Ayrton Cobra Lights the Valletta Sky for the Golden Bee Awards at Malta’s Mediterrane Film Festival

The Mediterrane Film Festival culminated with the sparkling Golden Bee Award Ceremony at the spectacular Fort Manoel, Gżira. Raphaël Demonthy, lighting designer and managing director at Sunrise Studios GmbH of Berlin, was responsible for the complete lighting design and realization of the ceremony. Signature to his visual design was a row of 30 Ayrton Cobra laser-sourced fixtures.

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