WILMINGTON, DE – One of the largest rental houses in the United States, Main Light Industries of Wilmington, Delaware, has added a large quantity of Elation Professional lighting equipment to its inventory, a purchase that includes the award-winning Platinum FLX™ hybrid moving head and products in Elation’s new ACL Series™ of narrow-beam LED effect lights.
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NIGMEGEN, The Netherlands – Doornroosje (Sleeping Beauty), a live music venue in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, has performance spaces with capacities for 1,100 and 400 revelers. Director of Lighting Robbie van Reen, who has worked full time for the venue since 2009, oversaw the installation of Robe fixtures in both spaces. The main room added 12 MMX Wash Beams, 16 MMX Spots, 14 LEDWash 800s and two more LEDWash 300s to the six already there, for a total of eight. The smaller room has been equipped with LED fixtures, including 8 DLF Washes, 14 DLX Spots and six LEDWash 600s. van Reen is pictured here, at right, with Jeroen van Aalst from Robe’s Benelux distributor Controllux on the left.
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NEW YORK – The Mallorca, Spain-based company, Airstage, which has a production facility near Stuttgart, Germany, says its radio-controlled, helium-based Airstage AirOrbs are taking flight in venues around the world, including Radio City Music Hall as part of this year’s Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Flight control for the lighter-than-air orbs can be programmed or manual, and a soft propeller design lets event organizers use them without a net.
GLP’s impression X1 is smaller than the company’s X4 S and weighs just 6.8 pounds, but it is capable of creating impressive feats with its four 15W RGBW LEDs including quick and continuous pan and tilt motion. Like other GLP impressions it features a small base and Neutrik powerCON in and thru connectors.
NORTH EAST, MD – For a recent production of Bring It On: The Musical, staged at Milburn Stone Theatre at Cecil College, LD William Price worked with Philips Entertainment to set up a rig that included Showline SL BEAM 300 FX, SL BAR 640, and SL NITRO 510 LED luminaires, along with Philips Vari-Lite VL4000 Spot luminaires and Philips Selecon PLCYC1 LED luminaires.
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TURIN, Italy – Agorà supplied D.T.S. EVOs for Eros Ramazzotti’s recent performances in Italy and beyond. The artist resumes his ‘Perfetto World Tour 2015’ in early 2016. The lighting operator, Nicola Tallino, has been using the EVOs for bright beam and backlight effects.
NEW YORK – The 11th Annual Stage Lighting Super Saturday workshop, continuing its practical and hands-on educational presentations, will take place on Saturday, January 9, 2016 at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts located at 721 Broadway in New York City. Sponsors include City Theatrical Inc., Lectrosonics, A.C. Lighting Inc., Clear Com and Figure53, makers of QLab.
Read More »NEW YORK– WorldStage named Richard Steinau Vice President of Business Development. The company also named Jeffrey Jayne Senior Account Manager.
Read More »LAS VEGAS – A.C.T Lighting, Inc. joined manufacturer partners Clay Paky and ImageCue to celebrate their trio of wins at LDI 2015. Clay Paky went home with two coveted awards for its lighting products, and ImageCue was named a PLASA members’ favorite for its small-footprint embedded server. A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky and ImageCue products in North America.
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LONDON – For a celebration of ‘Back to the Future Day’ (Oct. 21, 2015), Tattooed Bakers crafted a cake in the shape of a DeLorean sports car. Instead of candles, Vision SL used four COLORado Deco Quad 1 Tour fixtures as front headlamps, two MegaStrobe FX12s for rear brake indicators and two COLORband PiX IP linear washes for bumper lights. Two Geyser RGB foggers, meanwhile, simulated plumes of smoke emanating from the cake-car’s exhaust.
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AARHUS, Denmark — Although the future of SGM seemed uncertain with reports of a bankruptcy filing in early November, by Nov. 9, the company noted that Peter Johansen (pictured here, left) will continue in a leadership role as CEO. The company is now owned by Eurofinim, led by CEO Paolo Covre (pictured right.)
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ORLANDO – AV Stumpfl will be at IAAPA Attractions Expo Nov. 16-20 2015 to feature a variety of new AV related products including their Wings Avio Manager 2.0 control network architecture software. The company will also showcase solutions for uncompressed media serving, control and projection screens.
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