CHICAGO – For the Freaky Deaky festival, held in Chicago’s Toyota Park soccer stadium from Oct. 30-Nov. 1, the autumn skies were gray but the performers were lit with color washes from 48 of Chauvet’s COLORado Batten 144 Tour LED fixtures. LD Collyns Stenzel used the Batten fixtures to colorwash the scenic elements on the festival’s main stage and one of its two side stages.
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LOS ANGELES — For Mötley Crüe’s final tour, LD Matt Mills deployed an array of Martin MAC Viper AirFXs, Martin MAC Quantum Washes and Martin Atomic 3000 DMX strobes. The tour will wrap up with a three-night run at the Staples Center, culminating in a final show on New Year’s Eve.
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WINDSOR and BARRY, U.K. – The Projection Studio (TPS) has produced two high profile festive installations this year – at Windsor Castle and in the Welsh seaside town of Barry in Glamorgan. Pictured here is Windsor Castle, where a single Panasonic PZ21K projector fitted with a portrait adaption kit was used.
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MANCHESTER, U.K. – For this year’s Warehouse Project, a series of dance events staged at the Store Street parking lot beneath the arches at Piccadilly station, dbn Lighting returned with a rig including Clay Paky Alpha Spot 575 HPEs, Alpha Wash 300s and Sharpys along with Sunstrips, Atomic strobes, four 4-Lites and ETC Source Four Juniors. New for this year were Ayrton Magic Dots on the over stage truss.
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LAS VEGAS – 4Wall and PLSN affiliate Stage Directions magazine are inviting college students to apply for a chance to win a trip to the USITT’s Annual Conference & Stage Expo (Salt Lake City, UT, March 16-19, 2016) or the Hemsley Portfolio Review (Lincoln Center in New York City, April 2-3, 2016). Winners will be chosen based on video submissions showing ten cues from a show worked on this past season. The submission deadline is Feb. 26, 2016.
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LAFAYETTE, LA – B&L Sound and Lighting’s Jason Wilson, who served as event producer for the Louisiana Youth Evangelism Celebration (YEC) within Louisiana’s sprawling Cajundome Nov. 23-24, used 28 Rogue R2 Washes, 36 Rogue R2 Beams and three Strike4 LED blinders from Chauvet Professional for high impact, budget-friendly looks. Wilson also used Chauvet’s Next NXT-1 panels as a pixel-mapped extension of the Chauvet PVP S5 video panels used during the event.
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SALT LAKE CITY – Six technical theatre professionals were elected to USITT’s Board of Directors in online voting this month. Two board members were re- elected and four new members won seats on USITT’s 29-member board for three-year terms beginning July 1, 2016.
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ORLANDO – For the Circuit Grounds stage at Orlando’s Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) earlier this year, LD Steve Lieberman included Elation lighting fixtures. The setup included Elation Platinum Spot 35 Pro moving heads with Colour Chorus LED strip lights. AG Production Services supplied the gear.
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DALLAS, TX and OMAHA, NE – Syncrolite, LLC and Ballantyne Strong Inc. announced that the assets associated with Ballantyne Strong’s lighting business have been sold to Syncrolite. Effective Dec. 21, 2015 Syncrolite has assumed all operations, sales and support associated with Ballantyne Strong, including the company’s Super Trouper followspots, pictured here.
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BLACKPOOL, UK – For the Dickens holiday classic, A Christmas Carol, staged at Blackpool’s 3,000-capacity Opera House, LD Oliver Wilkinson opted to include a selection of Chauvet lighting fixtures. The rig included six Rogue R1 Spots and 16 Q-Wash 560Z-LED moving wash fixtures from Chauvet Professional and also Chauvet DJ PiXPars.
Read More »COLUMBIA, MD – Vectorworks, Inc., global design software developer and creator of the industry standard in entertainment design Vectorworks Spotlight, announced its sponsorship of the 11th annual Stage Lighting Super Saturday. The event will take place on Saturday, January 9, 2016, from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, located at 721 Broadway in New York City.
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ATLANTA – Kinesys is opening the doors and welcoming guests to its dedicated training facility in Atlanta next month. The event will run from Jan. 25-28, 2016. It promises increased product awareness and free operator training for those who want to know more about automated rigging for the entertainment industry.
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