SAN JUAN, PR – For a production of Mary Poppins at San Juan’s Centro de Bellas Artes Santurce, LD Toni Fernandez-Medina included 10 Rogue R2 Spot moving LED fixtures from Chauvet Professional. Musique Xpress supplied the fixtures, which were chosen for their versatility and also for their gobo effects for the Spanish-language production.
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LOS ANGELES – Before hitting the road for the current leg of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s “The River Tour 2016,” The Boss’s lighting team took advantage of A.C.T Lighting training classes to get them acquainted with their new grandMA2 full-size consoles. LD Jeff Ravitz, and lighting director/main console operator Todd Ricci and crew chief and second MA operator Brad Brown, the latter two from long term lighting contractor, Morpheus Lights, trained with Kat Covell at A.C.T Lighting’s offices in Burbank.
Read More »FRANKFURT – Guang Jian Gao, Designer-in-Chief and Art Director at the Chinese National Centre of Performing Arts in Beijing, will speak at Prolight + Sound 2016. The internationally renowned theatre expert will hold a keynote lecture covering his many years of experience as a set designer and offering interesting expert knowledge for the sector. The lecture will be held in Forum.0 of Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre on Thursday, 7 April 2016 at 15.30 hrs.
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SINGAPORE – Showtech Communications was tasked by the organizers of the New Year’s Eve festivities in Singapore’s Marina Bay area to provide a solution in integrating the existing lighting installations surrounding the bay with all the extra equipment for these celebrations. Showtech made use of 48 Robe fixtures, 45 Clay Paky fixtures and 300 LED fixtures for the events. LDs Heryadi Mohd Yusof and Ismahadie Putra Ishak also used a six-universe W-DMX setup to bridge the 400 meter span from FOH to the fixtures area for control.
Read More »ROZNOV pod RADHOSTEM, Czech Rebuplic – Robe reports that more than 300 BMFL fixtures were sold to the French market in the few months since the formation of Robe’s new French subsidiary, Robe Lighting France SAS.
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BERLIN – Lighting rental company GLS supplied lighting equipment and crew to Motörhead’s final “Bad Magic” tour, which ended in Berlin in December.
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NEW ORLEANS – At 4:15 on the afternoon of Saturday February 6, a little over 24 hours before the Super Bowl celebrated its 50th birthday, another American cultural icon hit the big 5-0 as a procession of 80 brightly decked out floats with 3,100 equally festooned riders made its way out of City Park in New Orleans to start the Endymion Parade. At the head of the line was the 45-foot (13.7 meter) long “Title Float” outfitted with 24 MVP 12 LED video panels from Chauvet Professional.
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BULLE, Switzerland — The picturesque town of Bulle in the Canton of Freibourg is nestled in the rocky hills that separate the French and German-speaking regions of Switzerland. Bulle, a regional economic hub, is also home to Globull, one of Switzerland’s most popular and cutting edge nightclubs.
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SECAUCUS, NJ – Jeff Treanor and Evan Rooney both recently joined Rose Brand in the sales and technical departments, respectively. Jeff (pictured here) came on board as an Outside Sales Representative and knows the Film and Television industry well. He comes to Rose Brand with a diverse background, which includes work with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Warner Hollywood Studios, TMB, and Rosco Laboratories. Evan (pictured below) is no stranger to the theatre and production world either. He’s come on board as a Project Manager for the Technical Department at Rose Brand.
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LONDON– d3 Technologies are pleased to announce the appointment of Joe Bleasdale as the new Training Manager at d3’s head office in Borough, London. Working with our three regional teams; EMEA, APAC and the America’s, Bleasdale’s focus will be to build on the existing training program, organise and deliver d3 training courses, as well as growing the training network worldwide.
Read More »DUBLIN – Dublin’s iconic city-centre sculpture, the Spire, turnedinto a 398-foot light saber to celebrate the premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Tom Rohan of event production house Eventco conceptualized the installation alongside lighting designers Mick Murray and Matthew Cregan. Clay Paky SuperSharpys played a key role.
Read More »Barco says its new F90 series DLP laser phosphor projectors offer up to 13,000 lumens brightness and long lifetime with reduced total cost of ownership. The first two models launched at ISE 2016 offer 4K UHD and WUXGA native resolution. The WUXGA F90-W13 will be shipping from early Q3 2016 onwards, and the 4K UHD F90-4K13 will be commercially available from Q4 2016.
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