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The Playground Calls on CHAUVET Professional for ‘La Meta’ Design Honoring Daddy Yankee’s Legacy

“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle,” wrote Walt Whitman. All lightshows are proof of that. But on rare occasions, when the meaning of the moment aligns perfectly with the aesthetics that celebrate it, the “miracle” becomes frozen in time, ensuring that it will always burn brightly in the minds of all who appreciated it.Read More »The Playground Calls on CHAUVET Professional for ‘La Meta’ Design Honoring Daddy Yankee’s Legacy

Robe at ISE 2024

Robe Lighting will exhibit on booths 1C700 and 1D700 in Hall 1 at the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) expo 30th January to 2nd Feb February 2024 at Fira Barcelona in Spain, where it and sister businesses – Anolis, Avolites, and Artistic Licence – will share a dynamic space and present an interesting array of new and popular products.

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Robe for Spectacular Belters Only Gig

A team from Dublin-based Spectrum Productions led by David Lawless and Jack Quirke supplied a large quantity of Robe moving lights rig for a rumbunctious, sold-out electro-extravaganza gig by popular Irish mix masters, Belters Only, at Dublin’s 3Arena. David and the team have been working with the artists for the last year and designed the floor lighting package for their 2023 festival appearances. Their brief for the 3Arena show was to make it BIG, bold, and breathtaking visually, helping pump the energy and excitement everywhere in the room – from the stage to the back of the auditorium.Read More »Robe for Spectacular Belters Only Gig

NIYU Creates Pop-Up Location in Munich with GLP Lighting

Back in September last year, a creative pop-up location for MINI was created for interim use in a department store in Stachus, Munich. The technical planning for the temporary project was created by NIYU GmbH, on whose behalf Roland Greil Lighting Design took over the lighting design and planning. Associate Lighting Designer and Planner Michael Kuehbandner specified 315 GLP luminaires to provide lighting for the multi-purpose rooms. Fifty-five FUSION X-PAR 12Z, 108 impression FR1 TM, 54 impression X4 Bar 20, and 14 KNV Cube – all of which are from GLP – were installed.Read More »NIYU Creates Pop-Up Location in Munich with GLP Lighting

CHAUVET Professional Bridges Worlds at ISE

ISE has a new home for its 20th anniversary 2024 show, as it moves for the first time to the just-expanded Gran Via Fira de Barcelona. Although ISE has been held at the Fira for the past three years, this is the first time, there is a Lighting and Staging Hall in Hall 1. Designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Toyo Ito, the remodeled venue is one of the most futuristic exhibition halls in the world. As such, it provides a fitting setting for CHAUVET Professional to showcase its array of new products at ISE 2024.Read More »CHAUVET Professional Bridges Worlds at ISE

National Theatre Invests in the UK’s First Ayrton Huracán Wash Fixtures

The National Theatre on London’s south bank has long been a bastion of creativity and world-class productions. Its three auditoria – the Olivier, the Lyttelton and the Dorfman – host productions from leading creative and technical crews.Read More »National Theatre Invests in the UK’s First Ayrton Huracán Wash Fixtures

Midwich Portugal to Distribute Robe

Ingo Dombrowski, International Sales Director for Robe Lighting s.r.o.

Midwich Portugal, part of the Midwich Group, is thrilled to announce the addition world-leading moving light manufacturer Robe Lighting to its exclusive distribution portfolio for the Portuguese market. Based in the Czech Republic, Robe develops and manufactures moving lights and LED lighting technology for the professional entertainment, performance, and broadcast industries and for architectural and architainment applications.Read More »Midwich Portugal to Distribute Robe

LD Yaron Abulafia Chooses Robe Tetra2s for Dutch National Ballet

Stark, raw, and provocative, Full Frontal is an uncompromising new dance piece by Choreographer Juanjo Arqués billed as ‘a ballet about real people and actual feelings’ set to “Weather One” a musical score by Michael Gordon. It was presented by the Dutch National Ballet and staged at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. It explores the stresses and tensions of our fractured and often polarized society as it faces physical obstacles that swap—ironically—with psychological projections of challenging conditions.Read More »LD Yaron Abulafia Chooses Robe Tetra2s for Dutch National Ballet

LynTec to Showcase Products at ISE 2024 for the First Time

LynTec, a manufacturer of innovative electrical power control solutions for professional audio, video, and lighting (AVL) systems, announced the company will be at ISE 2024, Jan. 30-Feb 2, in Barcelona. This will mark LynTec’s first presence at the show, which is primarily to educate EU dealers and distributors about its intelligent power control and distribution solutions. At the show, LynTec will demonstrate its LCRP-12 DMX lighting control relay panel and the award-winning RPCR-8 remotely controlled relay panel ahead of the company’s CE certification for sale in the EU market, which is expected later in 2024. LynTec, a brand of Chauvet, will display power control solutions at booth 1E350.Read More »LynTec to Showcase Products at ISE 2024 for the First Time

Astera Applied with Zeal at ‘Neverland Illuminova’

Over 300 Astera NYX Bulbs and 80 Titan Tube wireless LED lighting fixtures dazzled festive guests visiting the spectacular Neverland Illuminova Christmas trail at Wellington Country Park near Reading in the UK. This was a special lighting and visual experience concept developed and delivered by the team at show production and technical specialist, Zeal. The 1.5-kilometre trail followed the journey of the character Hope as they discovered their imagination travelling through various areas of visual interest with land, features and foliage speckled, colored, and bathed in light that could be absorbed, interpreted and sometimes interacted with live.Read More »Astera Applied with Zeal at ‘Neverland Illuminova’

Julie Basse Makes History and Imagination Come Alive in ‘Hair’ with CHAUVET Professional

The 1960s saw many wild, wonderful, and colorful transformations, but the modern moving light that would one day lead to the reimagination of stage design was not one of them. That creative breakthrough was still a decade away when Hair, the Tony-winning counterculture musical from James Rado and Gerome Ragni, made its Broadway debut in April, 1968. Still, could there be any better way to convey the ebullient, freewheeling spirit of the Sixties than with bold, dynamic moving fixtures?Read More »Julie Basse Makes History and Imagination Come Alive in ‘Hair’ with CHAUVET Professional

Cameo at ISE 2024 with New Lighting Technology Highlights

From January 30 to February 2, Cameo – the Adam Hall Group’s lighting technology brand, Cameo – will be presenting its new product highlights at Integrated Systems Europe 2024. The Cameo stand is located at 1E500 in the new Hall 1, “Lighting & Staging”. The focus will be on the AZOR and OTOS moving head series in particular, complemented by a variety of other spotlights for installation, broadcast and theatre applications, including the new ZENIT® models and the PIXBAR® G2 LED bars. In addition, Cameo will be giving an exclusive preview of two special highlights for 2024: keywords being “Illuminate Beyond Limits” and “The Blueprint of Tomorrow”.Read More »Cameo at ISE 2024 with New Lighting Technology Highlights