International News

LONDON – LD Mark Kenyon specified nearly 90 CHAUVET fixtures for the set design on BBC1’s Strictly Come Dancing. Scattered throughout the set are six Q-Wash 560Z LED moving heads in custom-finished chrome, with 50 COLORdash Batten Tri linear wash lights and 32 COLORado 1 Tour static wash lights.

DOHA, Qatar – More than 100 fixtures from PR Lighting were deployed recently at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) Park Inauguration in Doha. Alexandre Lebrun designed and directed the lighting. Technical production company TechnoPro provided the Litec Alusfera Dome Structure while PR Lighting provided the lighting equipment.

NEW YORK – April 24 is By Design Day, the annual fundraising day for Light Relief in the UK and Behind the Scenes in the US and Canada. By Design Day focuses attention on the various ways that individuals can support the two organizations that are dedicated solely to helping entertainment technology professionals in need.

AUSTIN, TX – For 20 years, Production Designer Manfred Voss has been with the popular German TV game show, “Wetten, dass..?” (translating as “Wanna bet that…?”)  which counts on ordinary people performing outlandish tasks for its entertainment value. Voss chooses the Road Hog Full Boar to control up to 16 SHOWPIX pixilation luminaires and
12 SHOWGUN 2.5 automated luminaires for its broadcasts on ZDF TV throughout Europe.

ASHFORD, UK – UK rental company Visual Elements has upgraded 100 Chroma-Q Color Block DB4 LED Fixtures in its inventory to the new Color Block Plus Replacement Engine. The new engine offers more than two and a half times the light output  – 750 lumens – of the original Color Block DB4 (290 lumens) with the internal switch set to full power. The newest installation of the Color Block Plus DB4 LED fixtures is at the Roundhouse.

BERGAMO, Italy  – Central Asia’s oil-rich Turkmenistan celebrated the 20th anniversary of its independence with a multimedia extravaganza lit by Luc Lafortune. The designer of Cirque du Soliel, amog other shows, kept the Turkmen aesthetic in mind, using a large complement of Clay Paky moving heads from Roome-based Agora.

LONDON – UK-based LD Derek Jones had a busy autumn season with two legendary British artists, Cliff Richard  and The Hollies. With both tours overlapping, Jones bought a new Vista S1 out on The Hollies, while he called on Lars Kristiansen to operate Cliff Richard and the Shadows on his Vista S3.

SERIATE, Italy – Singapore’s AVALON boasts the largest club installation of Clay Paky Sharpy moving beam lights. The new celebrity playground features 24 Clay Paky Sharpy, 18 Alpha Spot HPE 700, 4 Alpha Spot 300, and 4 Alpha Beam 300 luminaires, run by a grandMA ultra-light console (with 26 units of MA 2Port Nodes) to handle the multiple DMX universes used in the overall lighting scheme. There are plans to install more Clay Paky fixtures in the second phase of the lighting design for the future.

AUSTIN, TX – High End Systems’ new trackspot Bolt LED luminaires modernized the eletronic music club “Modernes” in Bremen, Germany. For nearly 20 years, the club has used six original High End Systems trackspot fixtures. Replacing them out with the trackspot Bolt – a full-featured, 3000 lumen moving-mirror fixture powered by an LED lighting engine – reduces their power consumption while offering them the long-lasting lighting they wanted in a lighting rig.

Belgium-based LD Luc Peumans specified 62 Robe ROBIN 600 LEDWash fixtures for the current Holiday on Ice ‘Speed’ tour. One of the creative starting points for the lighting design was making sure that the lighting fused and flowed harmoniously with the industrial toned space age set – designed by award winning stage/set designer Bart Clements. Belgium-based rental company Phlippo Showlights MC is supplying the lighting equipment.

AARHUS, Denmark – Kazakhstan marked its 20th year of independence on Dec. 1 with a celebration at the Republic Palace concert hall in Almaty. The renovated venue features a new design with the latest in Martin Professional lighting technology. LD for the anniversary show was François Guillet of Lumières Utiles in France, with gear provided by the APM Group, Martin Professional’s distributor in Kazakhstan.