LIVERPOOL – As part of British Style Collective’s three day fashion extravaganza staged at Liverpool’s Echo Arena, VER London are proud to have supported the production crew on Rock the Runway, a brace of daily show-stopping performances mixing models and dancers in a fashion-meets-music spectacle.
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UK – New Order + Liam Gillick So It Goes … is a bold and original collaboration between gurus of electronic music New Order and conceptual visual artist Liam Gillick, which is orchestrated by Joe Duddell and presented for the 2017 Manchester International Festival on Stage 1 at the iconic Old Granada Studios in the city. Lighting was designed by the band’s long term LD Andy Liddle, with equipment supplied by Blackburn-based rental specialist HSL, project managed by John Slevin and co-ordinated on site for them by Andy Chatburn.
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LONDON – Creating a concept to sculpt the air with light, Tony and Olivier award-winning lighting designer Neil Austin has drawn on the work of early visionaries Adolphe Appia, Gordon Craig and the more recent Josef Svoboda to deliver his fractured, abstract and constantly changing masterpiece for the Jack Thorne adaptation of Woyzeck at the Old Vic. He connected their vision with the versatile delivery of GLP’s X4 Bars, which have been his main weapon on this production.
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GENK, Belgium – Lighting and visual innovators Painting with Light were approached to design a special feature for the current ‘Black To The Future’ art exhibition, which is being organized by art collective Het Labo and staged at the C-MINE cultural center in Genk, Belgium. The environment is a redeveloped coal mine once the pulse of local industry, now tastefully restored and again serving the community meaningfully as a cultural center and creative hub for media and tech-related companies and the LUCA School of Arts.
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GLASTONBURY, UK – From its humble beginnings in 1970, the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts has championed performance diversity in all its shapes and forms. The Circus Big Top and the Wow! stages are two examples that perhaps best encapsulate this tradition of diversity at Glastonbury. While both stages featured very different forms of entertainment, both had a consistently excellent visual palette thanks once again to Fineline Lighting and rigs that featured CHAUVET Professional fixtures.
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PILTON, U.K. – ChamSys consoles were widely used at the 2017 edition of the Glastonbury Festival. From the Other Stage, where the event’s top headliners performed, to the Silver Hayes WOW Stage, where LDs cooked up hot looks for EDM artists, ChamSys products were used at the festival. Pictured here, JC from JC from GLS Lighting looks after the MQ200 console used for the event’s Avalon Stage.
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MONTERREY, Mexico – For the Pa’l Norte Festival, a two-day event that drew a total of close to 160,000 March 31-April 1 to Monterrey’s Fundidora Park with a roster of headliners that included The Killers, Placebo, MIA, The Offspring, Kaskade, Maná, Jason Derulo and Enanitos Verdes among others, Serpro Producciones provided a lighting rig that included 72 Maverick MK2 Washes from Chauvet Professional..
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MOSCOW – Robert Juliat’s Dalis 860 LED cyclorama lighting fixtures are currently playing a key role in Snégourotchka (The Snow Maiden) by Rimski-Korsakov at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia. The opera premiered on 15 June on the 1740-seat Heritage Stage on a set designed by Vladimir Arefiev, with lighting by Damir Ismagilov. In the largest installation of Dalis to date, Ismagilov chose to use 92 Dalis 860 asymmetrical LED units to illuminate three enormous lightboxes – the largest features of the set in this spectacular production – which form the backdrop to the Russian folk tale that tells of the Snow Maiden’s ill-fated love for the human, Mizgir.
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MOLDOVA, ROMANIA – King of Kings events are some of the most popular kickboxing events in the world and Elation dealer Eventica Grup SRL of Moldova has been a staging and technical contractor of KOK tournaments for years. For past events, Eventica has turned to Elation Platinum SBX™ hybrid fixtures for their multi-functionality, power and dynamism. For the King of Kings World Grand Prix 46 tournament held April 1st in Moldova, Eventica added Elation’s new Fuze Wash Z350™ to the line up along with other Elation gear. Lighting design was by Max Cojocari.
MODENA, ITALY – A crazy gig of epic proportions saw a quarter of a million Vasco Rossi fans pack into Modena Park for the one and only 2017 live appearance by Italian superstar and local hero in an epic homecoming concert. Lighting designer Giovanni Pinna, known for the imagination and flair of his work, wanted to make a BIG impact for this incredible show … and utilized 550 Robes as the backbone of his rig – making about around two-thirds of the total fixture count – with 200 x Spiiders, 50 x BMFL Blades and Spots, 200 x LEDWash 1200s and 600s and 100 x LEDBeam 100s.
COLOGNE, Germany – When Let’s Dance, the German version of Dancing with the Stars / Strictly Come Dancing, celebrated its 10th anniversary series recently, lighting designer David Kreilemann decided to place special emphasis on the versatile and powerful XR 440 BWS moving head from PR Lighting.
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RIMINI, Italy – The second annual MiR (Music Inside Rimini) exhibition ran from May 7-9, 2017 at the Rimini Expo Centre. The event featured live acts performing on stages equipped with gear on display at the show, and made use of nine Litec roof systems ranging in size form 10 by 8 meters to 27 by 13 meters in size.
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