International News

LONDON – After scoring the #52 slot in the Microsoft-sponsored Sunday Times Tech Track 100 last year, which tallies the 100-fastest-growing private technology companies in the U.K., Stage Technologies scored a #48 on the newspaper's International Track 100 in July 2010, which compares private British companies with the fastest-growing international sales.

L'ASSOMPTION, Quebec, Canada – Long before the first vuvuzela stadium horns accompanied cheers in South Africa for the world's best soccer teams, Stageline mobile stages were called in for various events related to the FIFA World Cup.

GUANGZHOU, China – The Guangzhou Ballet Group's performance of "Night Returning through Whirling Snow" won the coveted Wenhua Award at the 9th China Art Festival. LD Sun Tianwei provided the lighting design, with a Compulite Vector Red and two Vector Violets chosen for control.

CABRAMATTA, Australia – The Australian government's Building the Education Revolution (BER) plan is paving the way for hundreds of multipurpose halls to be built in support of the arts. Sacred Heart School, a Catholic primary school, was the first to open in New South Wales.

GUANGZHOU, China – The Guangdong Song and Dance Theater's "Arcade," recognized this year with the Wenhua Special Award at the 9th China Arts Festival, was lit by LD Liufeng Shu with Coemar fixtures as part of the rig.

MANCHESTER, U.K. – DBN Lighting supplied lighting design, equipment and crew for the main stage and two other tented areas for the two-day Parklife music festival, staged at 100-year-old Platt Fields Park and organized by The Warehouse Project and Ear To The Ground.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – The Artscape Theatre has been equipped the four Robert Juliat 1800W MSR Victor followspots, supplied and installed by Electrosonic SA. The Victors – the first in South Africa – are installed in the 1,487-seat main Opera Theatre, the largest of the theatre's three auditoriums.

PALMERSTON NORTH, New Zealand – A local landmark in the city square was damaged by a storm in 2006 and recently restored. It has been equipped with 12 Chauvet COLORado Batten 72 TOUR LED fixtures which create a four-sided lantern effect.

SOUTHAMPTON, U.K. – The four primary entertainment venues aboard P&O Cruises' new 290-meter-long, 3,500-capacity cruise ship, Azura, have been equipped with more than 120 Robe moving light fixtures.

JOHANNESBURG – Sets Drapes Screens (SDS), the specialist set building company of Gearhouse South Africa, marked two years since it was launched in 2008 to complement other companies in the Gearhouse Group.

DUBAI, U.A.E. – Promoter Fluid Production brought DJ David Guetta to the Dubai World Trade Center recently. LD Frank Schotman used Martin fixtures and LED panels to create visual pulses synched to the audible beat.