LONDON — For British singer Jessie J’s Alive arena tour, LD Vince Foster included Clay Paky Sharpy and Sharpy Wash fixtures in a layered production design where lighting beams interact with 600 horizontally positioned LED strips.
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LONDON — Luc Peumans from Belgian creative lighting design practice Painting With Light worked on the Music Hall Events arena production, Peter Pan, the Never Ending Story, with creative director Luc Petit and Music Hall’s Geert Allaert. The elaborate production recently finished its tour of the U.K. and will head to Dubai, UAE and Turkey later this year.
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LONDON — Lighting and stage designer Andy Hurst included Clay Paky’s Sharpy fixtures for electronic dance music duo Chase and Status’s arena tour last fall. Blackburn, U.K.-based HSL provided the fixtures which complemented the curved truss set design and video visuals.
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SOCHI, Russia — The hand-held torch wasn’t the only source of illumination lighting a path from Moscow to Sochi, Russia over the course of 123 days prior to the Feb. 7, 2014 start for the XXII Olympic Winter Games. RED Lighting’s Quadro 24 fixture, sourced via Art Performance Technology, was also used for torch-related ceremonies.
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BREDA, The Netherlands — Rental house Looijmans Showequipment supplied Clay Paky Sharpys for a dance festival at the 2,500-capacity Chasse Theater here that featured Dutch DJs Funkerman and Gregor Salto. LD Joep van Oosterhout rigged 14 Sharpys to an electronic flybar system surrounding the DJ booth to give the indoor event an outdoor festival vibe.
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LONDON — Ross Ashton and the Projection Studio (TPS) worked as consultants to Jack Morton Worldwide, producers of the Mayor of London’s New Year’s Eve fireworks display for the 10th consecutive year. TPS provided the large format video projections system, augmenting the visual component of a multi-sensory celebration that included color-changing LED wristbands, floating bubbles and clouds packing fruit-scented mist and edible banana-flavored confetti particles that dissolve in rain to limit cleanup requirements.
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SKIEN, Norway — When Ibsenhuset Theatre here was about to undergo a complete refurbishment, the technical managers specified more than 100 ETC Selador Desire LED luminaires along with two different — but connected — ETC Unison control systems.
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BIRMINGHAM — White Lies toured U.K. venues in December with support from Colour Sound Experiment, which provided custom truss from James Thomas Engineering and Robe and Clay Paky gear. In addition to Robe CycFX 8 fixtures, MMX Spots, LEDWash 1200/300s and Clay Paky Sharpys, the visual design paired Colour Sound’s BT18 LED screen panels with Robe Media Spinners.
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