International News

MUSCAT, Oman — TechnoPro LLC, which staged the Muscat Festival 2009 at Al Qurum National Park earlier this year, provided lasers, pyro and rigging and a lighting rig that included fixtures from PR Lighting.

DORES, U.K. — LD Jonny Gaskell has been using 12 of i-Pix’s BB7 LED wash lights — with the 20 degree wide angle lenses — on Orbital’s shows and festival dates, including their recent performance at Rockness in Scotland.

MALMO, Sweden — LumenRadio won first prize in Sweden’s Venture Cup Business Plan Competition for CRMX, the company’s first product line for wireless control of architectural and entertainment lighting.

LONDON — Production Resource Group (PRG) supplied 18 PRG Bad Boy luminaires for the U.S. and European leg of Britney Spears’ Circus tour, as specified by designer Nick Whitehouse, who worked with design partner Bryan Leitch and their firm, Visual Light Ltd.

MOSCOW — There was no shortage of spotlight-worthy performers at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, and no fewer than 17 Robert Juliat followspots used to keep them in the limelight.

MOSCOW —Eurovision 2009 set records for the annual song contest in terms of LEDs, pyrotechnics and lighting, and Procon Event Engineering GmbH added to the visual interest with six Pufferfish PufferSpheres, making their first Eurovision appearance above a crowd of 16,000 at Olympiyski Stadium.

CARDIFF BAY, U.K. — Lighting designer Tim Routledge of Blue Lens has won a BAFTA Wales Award (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) for Best Lighting Director. The Award was presented at the BAFTA Wales Awards 2009 held at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay.

COPENHAGEN — Created in the mid-19th century, Tivoli is one of the world’s oldest amusement parks and Denmark’s most popular tourist attraction. Visitors come for the rides, concerts, parades, gardens, and, since 2002, the “Tivoli Illuminations,” a half-hour light show at the end of each day in summer.

JOHANNESBURG — LD Tim Dunn used 30 Robe ColorSpot and Wash 700E AT moving lights to light a three-night series of performances by Jesse Clegg at the Johannesburg Civic Theatre. Dunn used the 18 Robe ColorWash 700E ATs in the 1200 capacity theatre’s house rig, adding another 12 ColorSpot 700E ATs of his own supplied by Gearhouse South Africa.

LEEK, The Netherlands — Clay Paky, which introduced its Alpha 700s in Frankfurt earlier this year, recently sold its first order of the fixtures to AVL Concept, based here. The Dutch company, which specializes in the design, supply and installation of AV and lighting equipment, purchased 24 Alpha Spot HPE 700s and 16 Alpha Beam 700s.