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DUBAI – Celebrated DJs, Acrobats, dancers, pyrotechnics, lasers and fireworks synchronized with music across an unending sea of white. Organizers filled the atmosphere with stunning structures, unique elements and beautiful light-shows which illuminated the crowds in a white oasis. The acts united people from all over the world to create a great vibe, while the crowd embraced the “Celebrate Life” theme.

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NEW DELHI, INDIA—HARMAN Professional Solutions recently partnered with HARMAN Global Brand Ambassador and Grammy Award-winning artist A.R. Rahman to produce The Sufi Route—India’s first folk, poetry and Sufi music festival. HARMAN Professional Solutions was the official technology partner of the concert, which was held on November 18, 2017 at Qutub Minar, one of New Delhi’s most iconic and historic monuments.

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TEL AVIV – The cavernous Shlomo Arena in Tel Aviv was  brought to life – for the first time ever with the buzz of dance music – as the fantastic sounds and musical distinction of Tale of Us swirled around the environment in a limited-entry show presented by The Tripping, the country’s most discerning electronic music promoters. The event was atmospherically engineered by visuals designer Eran Klein who utilized Robe Pointes and Spiiders and PixelPATTs at the core of his design.

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NETHERLANDS – drs. Down! is part musical, part drama, part medical case study and the brainchild of Dutch TV presenter and chat show host Ivo Niehe, making his debut as a playwright. He boldly tackles some of the complex, dramatic, delicate and serious issues associated with Down Syndrome: judgements, prejudices and how it can shape and define lives, told through the true story of Pablo Pineda-Ferrer, who overcame the odds to gain a university degree in psychology.

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BIRMINGHAM, UK – On Friday, November 24th, England’s infamous club and house music brand, Miss Moneypenny’s, finally got their Night at the Proms with a lavish party celebration marking 25 years since the internationally recognized club brand began in Birmingham. Held at Symphony Hall in Birmingham, full service production company, Stage Production Co., were called on to produce all the technical elements of the show and used an Elation Professional lighting system as an important element of the lavish visuals.

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LONDON – VER join 90s pop sensations, Steps, treading the boards at venues throughout the UK, mixing tracks from recent album ‘Tears on the Dancefloor’ with their string of crowd pleasing chart-conquering hits. Working closely with Production Manager, Steve Reeve and Pull the Pin Out Productions, VER London provided the multi layered, custom built LED video walls used to deliver the shows’ suitably vibrant backdrop.

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FRANCE – Paris’s newest arena space, the U Arena, threw open its doors in spectacular fashion this autumn when The Rolling Stones performed the final three European dates of their No Filter tour to sold-out audiences of 40,000 people each night. As an inaugural event, it doesn’t get much bigger, and Robert Juliat was proud to be part of it – in its home city – with eight RJ Lancelot 4K followspots playing a key role in the action on stage.

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BLACKPOOL, UK – Walk Like A Man takes audiences back in time to the freewheeling early ‘60s when the music of Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons ruled the airwaves. At a recent run of the Mark Halliday produced show at Blackpool’s historic (opened in 1894) Grand Theatre, the cheerful nostalgic music was supported by a fast-moving upbeat lighting design created by Ollie Wilkinson of Arranpaul Ltd using a collection of CHAUVET Professional fixtures.

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ALICE SPRINGS, Au. – The Parrtjima Light Festival is held in Alice Springs, Central Australia, and showcases the oldest continuous culture on earth through the newest technologies. Through a spectacular world of light and sound, contemporary and traditional Indigenous stories and artwork are brought to life under the night sky on an unprecedented scale.

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AMSTERDAM (“One of the best show’s our team has ever done!” … declared production designer and show director Gabe Fraboni after two recent incendiary performances by hugely popular Dutch DJ and music producer Martin Garrix at Amsterdam’s RAI, both bathed in production awesomeness with nearly 300 Robe moving lights on the rig, including 50 brand new MegaPointes.

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WILLEMSTAD, CURAÇAO–  For Jim Lo-A-Njoe, the inspiration for putting together the Furia Latina lighting rig began with the first word in the November 4 concert’s name – “Furia!” Looking to reflect the fury of reggaetón music’s powerful and unsettling emotions in light, he wanted to create looks that would blow through the stage with the ferocity of a sudden storm.  Lo-A-Njoe of Massive Productions got the intensity he was seeking, and then some, by building his rig around 78 high-output Rogue moving fixtures from CHAUVET Professional.

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GERMANY – The successful MADRIX® Training sessions will continue in 2018 and offer even more possibilities to get the most out of the popular LED lighting control tool. In addition to the basic software crash course for beginners, two new courses have been added. Among those is the often requested seminar to create advanced effects. The trainings take place at the MADRIX® headquarters in Dresden, Germany.

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