MELBOURNE, Australia – MPH Australia is a busy lighting rental company based in Melbourne, headed by Matt Hansen (pictured here). The company has embraced Robe as an in-house brand, and now offers LEDWash 600s, MMX Spots, LEDBeam 100s and BMFL series fixtures to its clients.
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NEW YORK – LD Susan Nicholson used Elation Professional’s Platinum Spot 35 Pro moving heads for front lighting, backlighting and texturing on a recent Off Broadway production of the new musical drama, Death for Five Voices. Nicholson used the Platinum Spot 35 Pro for front light and highlights for the production, which was staged March 24 through April 17 at the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture in New Yorky. The production was inspired by the life and work of Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo.
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Mega-Lite’s Baby Color VW is designed to serve as a bright variable white fixture that is ultra-compact in size. The unit is equipped with 7 5W LEDs and has less than a 5” square body. The fixture has a 20°beam angle and comes with a diffuser that increases the beam angle to 25°. The Baby Color VW is controllable via DMX 512 and has amber, warm white, cool white, dimmer, CTO and strobe channels. It also has the control options audio trigger and master slave. The Baby Color VW has a double mounting yoke so it can to be set on the floor or hang from a structure. It has a digital display designed for ease of use. And the unit is equipped with power con in and out and 3-pin or 5-pin XLR connections.
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INDIO, CA – At the Coachella Music and Arts Festival’s Gobi Tent, Sean Coates of RK Diversified Entertainment lit an eclectic array of performers with a design that included 15 Rogue R2 Beam fixtures from Chauvet Professional mounted on five “fingers” of overhead truss.
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Blizzard Lighting’s mini cube-shaped moving head, Snake Eyes Mini, brings the features of Blizzard’s larger Snake Eyes fixtures into a more compact package. Features include six 10-Watt CREE RGBW 4-in-1 LEDs with a 9° beam angle. The Snake Eyes Mini is also lined with 12 controllable RGB strips, and the compact fixture moves with 630°/540° pan and infinite tilt.
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TITUSVILLE, FL – The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex decked the halls last Christmas with a Holidays in Space theme from December 2015 through January 2016. The 223-foot long Saturn 1B rocket located in the open air Rocket Garden served as a giant 6,528 by 1,050-pixel projection surface. AV Stumpfl gear was included in the setup, which made use of 80,000 lumens of projected light.
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BUFORD, GA – Analog Way opened its new headquarters for the Americas in Buford, GA, which is in Gwinnett County outside Atlanta. The 15,000 square-foot facility, located at 3047 Summer Oak Place in Buford, will house operations for the company’s staff devoted to sales, administration, finance, IT, technical support and product repair, and also includes a warehouse for the company’s products. The company’s new HQ for the Americas comes after 13 years of focusing its U.S. operations in NYC.
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LONDON – Singer / songwriter Foxes (Louisa Rose Allen), whose vocals were featured on “Clarity” by Zedd, recently toured the U.K. with a new lighting design created by Jake Vernum. Working with LD Cate Carter of Bryte Design, the lighting looks relied upon Robe fixtures included five LEDWash 1200s, six Pointes and six LEDBeam 100s. At larger venues such as London’s Roundhouse, the tour rig was complemented by house-supplied lighting including additional Robe moving lights.
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HOUSTON -– The 2016 NCAA March Madness Music Festival, offering three days of music April 1-3 to Houston’s Discovery Green just prior to the April 4 final matchup between Villanova and North Carolina, drew huge crowds with a roster of headliners that included Maroon 5, Fall Out Boy and Pitbull, among others. John Dickson of LD Systems in Houston worked with Turner Live Events to create the rig with programming done by individual band LDs. Throughout the festival, the high-impact show gained energy from the rapid movements of the rig’s 32 Next NXT-1 moving LED panels from Chauvet Professional.
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LONDON – For the annual Classical Spectacular at London’s Royal Albert Hall March 17-20, LD Durham Marenghi used a symphony of Clay Paky Mythos, Sharpy, Sharpy Wash, Alpha Spot HPE 1500 and Alpha Spot HPE 700 fixtures to create a dynamic lighting show. Put on by the legendary classic music promoter Raymond Gubbay, the dramatic overtures were complemented by cannons, guns and 2,000 indoor fireworks, which brought the show to a thundering finale.
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LOS ANGELES – The MAC Axiom Hybrid U.S. Launch Tour will bring new gear from Martin Professional to eight U.S. cities in May and June. Starting in Los Angeles, the tour continues to Las Vegas, Dallas, Nashville, TN, Atlanta, Chicago, Wilmington, DE and ends in New York City. Featured products include Martin’s MAC Axiom Hybrid, which was also showcased at Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, Germany earlier this month.
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NORWALK, CT – Tony Award-winning production manager and founder of Aurora Productions, Gene O’Donovan, joined Theatre Projects’ staff recently as part of the company’s ongoing guest speaker series. Theatre Projects’ speaker series invites accomplished performing arts professionals to share their insights, history, and philosophy, and engage in a back-and-forth conversation with staff in order to better understand the challenges they’ve faced, the facilities they operate in, and the trajectory of the performing arts.
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