International News

SINGAPORE – Singapore’s School of the Arts (SOTA) recently selected 10 Alpha Spot HPE 700 and 11 Alpha Wash 700s to illuminate three performance halls run by students studying the creative arts. The equipment was installed by regional lighting and staging specialists Desisti Asia Pte Ltd.

LONDON – Beatles tribute band The Bootleg Beatles have since 1994 relied on Entec for the touring sound and lighting.  And the love continues on, as LD Mark Jones has designed a show that mimics the productions of yesterday, but of course includes fixtures of today.

MOSCOW – Robe moving lights added highlights to the heavyweight bout at Moscow’s M1 Global MMA (mixed martial arts) Challenge. Headliners Fedor ‘The Last Emperor’ Emelianenko and Jeff ‘The Snowman’ Monson entertained a crowd of 15,000  – including Russian’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin – and was televised live. Rental company TOK in northwest Russia supplied the technical production.

MIDDLETON, WI – Russia’s Bolshoi Theater recently underwent a massive $1 billion renovation project which restored its historic looks but went state of the art when it came to its stage technology. ETC Eos consoles are now controlling the new lighting system, which also includes ETC fixtures, in the theater’s historic main hall.

DALLAS – LD Robb Jibson relied on a variety of VARI-LITE luminaires to create his organic layers of light for Incubus’ world tour. With limited space on the truss, and limited space on the trucks, Jibson looked at the feature set of VARI-LITE luminaires to meet his needs for fixtures that offered lots of flexibility.

ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands – The Rotterdamse Schouwburg’s stock of aging profiles were recently replaced with Robert Juliat zoom profiles with the purchase of 34 RJ 614SX 16°-35° fixtures from Netherlands distributor LightCo. Other theatres in Amsterdam and in Weert have also increased their inventory of Robert Juliat fixtures as well.
(Photo: X profile being rigged and focused on lighting towers at Rotterdamse Schouwburg by Ben de Jong. Credit Sefton Geubbels)

LEEK, The Netherlands – Audio Concept CA, distributor for the Prolyte Group in Venezuela and Colombia, has recently added the Prolyte i-line range to its package of products and services to answer the demand of customers and local partners. The Prolyte i-line range consists of trusses, StageDex decks and towers.

HIGH WYCOMBE, Buckinghamsire, UK – The current Bryan Adams tour is the first major one in the UK  to feature Robe lighting’s new ROBIN MMX Spots. LD Ewan McRobb specified 12 of the fixtures from tour lighting contractor Siyan. McRobb needed fixtures that could hold their own against the light output from a large Stealth screen, which creates the main look of the stage.

AARHUS, Denmark – Moscow celebrates its birthday with an International Military Music Festival, “Spasskaya Tower,” at Red Square. Martin lighting played its part in the event, which required two lighting designers to handle all the aspects of it for TV and an Internet audience.

LONDON – HSL supplied lighting equipment, LED video screens and crew to the recent UK leg of the Chase & Status “No More Idols” tour.  The band shares the same management team as Pendulum, another artist to whom HSL provides lighting.