BOOM, Belgium — Some 250 Robe moving light fixtures were deployed site-wide at the 2013 Tomorrowland EDM festival, which drew close to 180,000 EDM fans to De Schorre National Park here from July 26-28. ID&T served as event organizers and Jurgen Nuytemans and Christophe Van Den Branden oversaw technical and artistic direction for a long list of top DJs on 14 live stages.
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HIGH WYCOMBE, U.K. — Dry Hire Lighting has become the first UK rental house to take delivery of Showline’s new LED linear SL BAR 640 luminaire. The company plans to soon offer the SL BAR 660 as well.
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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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