LONDON — Drum-and-bass duo Chase & Status have been performing on the European festival circuit this summer, accompanied by a light show designed by Neil Carson that features a floor “specials” rig with more than 160 lights. The floor rig includes more than 60 Robe LEDBeam 100s at its core.
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The Zip Zap Circus School, a nonprofit organization dedicated not just to circus stunts but technical training and enriching the lives of others, recently installed two Robe DLX Spots and 24 Robe LEDForce PAR 18s. The gear was specified by Malo McGrath from Johannesburg based installation company, The Art of Noise, who worked with DWR’s Duncan Riley.
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LONDON — For the West End debut for the Brainiac Live show at The Palace Theatre here, XL Events had to figure out the best way to serve the show’s production needs – lighting, video and audio – while playing “underneath” Derren Brown’s current residency at the Palace — which entailed that the production be rigged and de-rigged in a seemingly impossible time frame, as little as 30 minutes, in some instances.
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RIJKHOVEN, Belgium —Luc Peumans, a lighting and visuals designer with Genk, Belgium-based Painting With Light, lit Summer Opera Alden Biesen’s 2013 season production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto with a moving light rig that included six Clay Paky Alpha Profile 1200s, 12 HES Studio Colors and a grandMA 2 for control. Carlos Wagner directed this year’s production, Marnik Daert designed the set, Niels Huybrecht assisted with programming and local rental company New Lines provided the gear.
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AALSMEER, The Netherlands — Eventec, a leading production company based here, added more than 80 new fixtures from Robe to its inventory, including Robe Robin Pointes, LEDWash 300s and MMX WashBeams. The gear will be used for a variety of live and televised productions. Eventec also works together with other Amsterdam-area rental companies —notably Haarlem-based React — to pool their gear resources in support of large events.
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UTRECHT, Netherlands – Netherlands equipment rental company Ampco Flashlight Rental has made a major investment in Robe’s new multipurpose moving light fixture, the Pointe. The company ordered 100 Pointes because of the current demands of the rental market and its increasing popularity on equipment riders.
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MUNICH – The lighting department of the Bayerischen Staatsoper (Bavarian State Opera), under the direction of Michael Bauer, specified a new ETC Gio lighting control desk for Munich Opera’s recent open-air festival. This year’s Munich Opera Festival, from June to July, kicked off with a spectacle. Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, and the Bavarian State Opera all marked their 200th birthday this year. To celebrate, the Opera staged Wagner vs. Verdi, a playful competition in which the two great composers meet each other as giant marionettes in the plaza outside the Bavarian State Opera House.
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