International News

[caption id="attachment_277074" align="alignnone" width="800"]The Claypaky staff and John Allen, chairman of Showlight at Palazzo dei Congressi, Firenze [/caption]

FLORENCE, Italy – Leading Italian lighting manufacturer Claypaky is proud to have been the Headline Sponsor and host of the Showlight 2017 conference, which closed on 23 May after three extremely successful days in Florence, Italy. Over a three-year period, the Claypaky team has worked closely with the Showlight committee to help produce this extraordinary event.

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[caption id="attachment_277068" align="alignnone" width="800"]Robe Mahatma Argentina 01[/caption]

BUENOS AIRES  – Argentinian LD Ariel del Mastro designed the lighting for Mahatma, choreographer / producer Flavio Mendoza’s production, recently staged at the Luxor Theatre in Villa Carlos Paz, Cordoba. The elaborate production, lit with Robe moving lights, is opening this month at Teatro Broadway in Buenos Aires.

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BRISBANE, Australia – A newly completed memorial to World War II submariners is the centerpiece of the 300-metre Submariners’ Walk Heritage Trail on the Brisbane River boardwalk in Tenerrife, Queensland, Australia. The walk features a series of plaques and submarine-shaped seats commemorating the sailors and their service. The memorial itself comprises a landmark sign illuminated by Firefly’s Digital FloppyFlex RGBW LED neon.

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[caption id="attachment_277005" align="alignnone" width="800"]Ed Sheeran Tour[/caption]

BOGATA, Colombia – U.K.-based Major Tom, Ltd. is supplying Kinesys system on Ed Sheeran’s 108-show, three-continent tour in support of his third studio album, Divide (stylized, simply, as a division symbol). The Kinesys system and control was recommended by Mike Oates, director of UK based Lights Control Rigging (LCR), the tour’s lighting equipment and crew supplier in combination with SES in the U.S.

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[caption id="attachment_277002" align="alignnone" width="800"]Armin Rocks Amsterdam ArenA[/caption]

AMSTERDAM – For Armin van Buuren’s two mega-shows at Amsterdam ArenA May 12-13, designers Andre Beekmans and Marc Heinz collaborated on a visual extravaganza that included the use of more than 900 Robe fixtures. Focus Amsterdam B.V. and Rent-All supplied the fixtures, which included 200 BMFL Spots, 112 BMFL WashBeams, 186 Pointes, 180 LEDBeam 100s and 231 Spiiders. The show filled the home stadium for the Ajax soccer team with music and light.

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[caption id="attachment_276995" align="alignnone" width="800"]Color Sound gives a visual assist[/caption]

LONDON – Award winning lighting designer Francis Clegg applied his imagination and magic to the latest Snarky Puppy UK tour, where his penchant for creating interesting and different visual environments is perfectly suited to the band’s improvisational instrumental jazz-pop sounds.Colour Sound Experiment was delighted to be the lighting and video supplier for the tour. The west London based company has worked on other projects with Francis, part of creative practice design MIRRAD, including most recently, Giggs and Kano. “You know that a design will look fresh and alternative when Francis’ name is on it,” commented Colour Sound’s H (Haydn Cruickshank).

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[caption id="attachment_276990" align="alignnone" width="800"]Ed Warren uses Robe on Circa Waves[/caption]

LONDON – UK indie rockers Circa Waves are certainly making some waves right now, and the release of their second album “Different Creatures” brings some more serious, hard-hitting and thought-provoking messages along with solid catchy rhythms. Lighting designer Ed Warren started working with Circa Waves at the start of this album campaign in October 2016. Having known their management team for some time, all the circumstances and stars aligned to make it the right time for Ed to add his ideas and imagination to the stage presentation on recent UK and European legs of the tour.

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[caption id="attachment_276987" align="alignnone" width="800"]Ayrton Welcomes Vari Internacional S.A[/caption]

MEXICO CITY – Ayrton is very happy to announce the appointment of Vari Internacional, S.A. as its new exclusive distributor for Mexico. The agreement was formalized at the recent sound:check Xpo show in Mexico City and takes place with immediate effect.

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TURKS and CAICOS  – Beaches Resorts in the Turks and Caicos Islands offer activities for people of all ages, not to mention convenient access to some of the Caribbean’s best beaches. Lighting designer Lisa Weinshrott Kimmel, of Sharp Edge Lighting Design, was recently brought onboard to design lighting for a theatre project at the vacation resort and found an Elation rig at her disposal.

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VENICE, Italy – ‘Protected Paradise’ is a 12 meter high mixed media installation created by Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen. Located in the garden of the Palazzio Francetti for the 2017 Biennale di Venezia contemporary visual art exhibition. Luc Peumans of Painting with Light lit the work using, among other fixtures, the specialty StarEye fixture from Antwerp-based Lux Lumen.

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[caption id="attachment_276965" align="alignnone" width="800"] Urdile Audio & Iluminación uses PR Lighting fixtures[/caption]

CHILE – Urdile Audio & Iluminación, PR Lighting’s Chilean distributors, are just one global partner that has been achieving extraordinary success with the Chinese manufacturer’s XR440 BWS, and its smaller sibling the XR330 BWS (denoting that these hybrid, high output moving heads combine Beam, Wash and Spot effect).

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[caption id="attachment_276947" align="alignnone" width="800"]The Pink Floyd Exhibition Their Mortal Remains [/caption]

LONDON – Now open at the V & A Museum, The Pink Floyd Exhibition: Their Mortal Remains is the first international retrospective of one of the world’s most pioneering and influential bands. The exhibition offers an immersive and multi-sensory journey through the career of Pink Floyd, chronicling their music, design and staging, from the 1960’s through to the present day. Following the company’s work on last year’s EXHIBITIONISM, the Rolling Stone’s exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, White Light was called upon to oversee the lighting installation and supply the lighting equipment on this occasion.

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