BERLIN – The Opening Ceremony of the 2015 European Maccabi Games (EMG2015), Europe’s biggest Jewish sports event, was staged at the Waldbühne amphitheatre in Berlin’s Olympic Park, and officially declared open by German President Joachim Gauk. The event’s lighting rig, supplied by Berlin-based TSE and designed by LD Ronen Najar, centered on fixtures from Robe, with close to 200 units in all.
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NASVILLE – Elation Professional is bringing its latest lighting and video products to the WFX show, which is set for Nov. 18-19 at the Music City Center in Nashville. Featured products will include the Platinum FLX hybrid moving head (pictured here) as well as the company’s Emotion moving head digital light.
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CANBERRA, Australia – The Canberra Theatre Centre (CTC) recently upgraded their lighting systems with an assist from staging and lighting specialists Sound Advice and Jands-supplied ETC fixtures. The CTC is made up of three venues: the 1,200-seat Canberra Theatre, a traditional proscenium arch theatre; the 600-seat Playhouse; and the 100-seat Courtyard Studio. A total of 248 fixtures made up the CTC upgrade including 10° ellipsoidal luminaires, 15-30° zoom ellipsoidal luminaires and 25-50° compact zoom ellipsoidal luminaires.
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Martin’s Martin RUSH Strobe CWL (Cold White Linear), designed for fixed installation at nightclubs, bars and other small entertainment venues, is designed to provide a traditional Xenon strobe look with a 17,000 lumen output. The fixture features 99 3W Cree XP-D LEDs with a reflector design and an 87-degree beam angle to create a variety of special effects such as ramp up/down, up-down, random flash, lightning, blinder and single flash.
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LAS VEGAS — One of the highlights of the 2015 LDI Show was an exhibition of Neal Preston’s photos. Titled In the Eye of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hurricane, the exhibition was on display Oct. 23-25, right on the show floor. Pictured here is a moment from the video reel where Queen’s Brian May credits Preston for his work – in this case, a shot of the band from backstage.
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HONG KONG – One of GLP’s longest serving customers in the Far East, Hong Kong-based AHM Engineering Co. Ltd, has increased its pool of impression X4 moving head LEDs with the addition of a further 48 fixtures. This takes their inventory up to 138 pieces — and tasked with providing lighting for two back-to-back concerts by Lui Fong at Hong Kong Coliseum, they also made their first investment in the new impression X4 Bar 10 battens.
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NASHVILLE – LD Taylor Price’s lighting design for country music duo Dan + Shay, who have been touring in support of their first album, Where It All Began, makes use of an all-LED rig supplied by 4Wall that includes Chauvet Nexus LED Panels and Martin MAC Quantum Profiles, among other fixtures.
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ATLANTA – Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre recently revealed the final renderings for a renovation that will completely transform its facilities. The project, which will begin in the summer of 2017, will help the Tony Award-winning theatre company produce ambitious works, better engage with the surrounding community, and provide audiences with more dynamic and comfortable theatre-going experiences.
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LAS VEGAS – Chauvet Professional lauded LD Rachel Miller for creating a booth lighting design that helped draw visitors at the recent LDI show in Las Vegas. The booth was lit with products drawn from the company’s Nexus, Rogue and ÉPIX catalog of fixtures.
DUBAI, UAE – The 2015 Dance Afrique Festival, staged Oct. 8 at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai, featured Akon from Senegal, Congolese musician Awilo Logombia, singer-songwriter Flavour from Nigeria and other African artists. Dubai- and UK-based LD Steve Shipman, who had designed the lighting for the same show in London in August, used 12 Robe BMFL Spots and more than 120 Robe moving lights in all.
Read More »BUDAPEST, Hungary – Devon, U.K. based drapes, starcloth, LED and visual effects specialist S+H Technical Support supplied its LED Video Floor product to the first Hungarian edition of popular television games show, The Cube.