International News

EUROPE – LD Tim Rourtledge selects RJ 4000W HTI Lancelot followspots for main FOH fixtures on the Take That Live 2015 tour.

MEXICO CITY, Mexico – Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes showcased a new kind of fine art when its façade served as the backdrop for “Fragments,” a seven-minute 3D projection mapping staged for FILUX 2015, the Festival Internacional de las Luces.  Laszlo Zsolt Bordos, also known as Bordos.Artworks, created the concept and executed the 3D animation for “Fragments.” KARDIA Producciones, Mexico City deployed media servers from d3 Technologies and its creative software suite, including QuickCal and Dynamic Soft Edge, to map the building.

LONDON – West London-based lighting and visuals rental company Colour Sound Experiment now holds the largest stock of Robe BMFL Spot moving lights in the UK with the purchase of 50 new fixtures, which have been delivered by Robe UK.

PRAGUE, Czech Republic – The Prague Quadrennial, the largest international festival of theatre and performance design in the world, held every four years in the Czech capital, reported the total attendance of its main locations at 180,000 entries during its 11 days.

Brazil – Brazil’s biggest pop star Luan Santana has filmed his latest DVD ‘Luan Santana – Acoustic’ at a sold out show, with the production and lighting designed by Ludmila Machado and Marcos Olivio of Spectrun Design. Together, the creative duo employed an array of Clay Paky fixtures to deliver crucial looks for the event, with the video becoming the second most watched in YouTube history.

SANTIAGO, Chile – W-DMX™ by Wireless Solution Sweden AB recently set sail with W-DMX distributor Iluminacion Profesional VALOOK SA. based in Santiago, Chile, for the Valdivia boat parade.

U.K. – Clay Paky Mythos, K10 B-Eyes and Showbatten 100s were supplied by Fisher Productions for the 2015 L’Oréal Colour Trophy Tour.

U.K. – Lighting designer, Tim Routledge, has employed a quantity of Ayrton MagicBlade™-R and MagicPanel™-R LED fixtures on Take That’s Live 2015 tour, which is currently travelling the UK in promotion of their seventh studio album, III, before crossing to mainland Europe in the autumn.

U.K. & Europe – Lighting designer Tom Campbell is using an Avolites Tiger Touch II on Anna Calvi’s summer festival tour using V9 to create a subtle and evocative production.

DUBLIN, Ireland – The Script performed in front of a jam packed crowd of over 80,000 people at Croke Park in June, for their biggest show of the year. Mirrad’s Jamie Thompson and Dave Cohen made full use of Avolites Titan range, with two Sapphire Touch consoles, two Tiger Touch II consoles, a Quartz, four Titan Net Processors, and ART2000 dimmers.

DEN BOSCH, The Netherlands – Dutch technical production and rental company recently invested in Robe’s BMFL moving lights.