NEW YORK — HLB Lighting Design, an architectural lighting designer firm with offices in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Boston, announced several staff promotions recently, including new senior associates, new associates and new senior designers.
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LONDON – For the third consecutive year, Stage Technologies is supplying the overhead automation for Pink’s The Truth About Love US and European tours. The show, directed by Baz Halpin, incorporates aerial performances during a number of tracks, including “Glitter in the Air,” in which the star is dipped into a small pool of water onstage before being drawn up again for acrobatics involving an aerial hammock.
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WALTBUTTELBRUNN, Germany – Steinigke Showtechnic is introducing the Futurelight DMH-150 for bigger stages and a smaller version, the DMH-60, suited for clubs and smaller venues.
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FRANCE – OXO Light is lauching its LED Funstrip, an energy-saving LED version of its Funstrip batten. LED Funstrip replaces the traditional MR16 lamps of Funstrip with 10 x 9W warm white LED sources, each of which can be controlled individually. The long LED life (50,000 hours) means the lightsources are replaced less often, saving on material and labor costs, especially beneficial in fixed installations such as television studios or display lighting.
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EUROPE – LD Luc Lafortune traveled to Paris, Bergamo and Madrid during his cycle of his “Art and Poetry in Stage Lighting” events. The conferences were centered around two of Cirque du Soleil’s most successful shows, Kà and “O.” Lafortune got right down to the roots of the creative process, and shared many behind the scenes stories as well.
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NEW YORK – Production designer Seth Jackson is using grandMA2 consoles on Barry Manilow’s return to Broadway. Bandit Lites supplied the consoles to the St. James Theatre for the entertainer’s limited-run Broadway engagement featuring a huge catalog of his hits.
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LONDON – Clay Paky Sharpys has added high-impact layers in LD Peter Barnes’ design for pop star Cheryl Cole’s tour. Her A Million Lights Tour marked her debut solo arena tour, and visited 10 cities across the UK and Ireland during October.
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BELFAST – Northern Irish band Two Door Cinema Club continued the latest UK leg of their ‘Beacon’ world tour with a lighting design by Chris “Squib” Swain. The design included 32 Robe LEDBeam 100s and 10 Robe MMX Spots from rental company Siyan.
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LOS ANGELES – WorldStage developed and installed a live, moving LED display system for the new studio design for ESPN’s premier NBA show, Kia NBA Countdown.
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NASHVILLE – Little Big Town is on the road with Bandit Lites for The Tornado Tour. Raj Kapoor worked closely with Little Big Town to design the look of a tornado-ravaged set that features the remains of a theatre, with tattered legs and borders hanging across the mid stage. LD Chris Shrom worked with production manager Chris Diener on the production details.
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NASHVILLE — For his recent Take a Back Road tour, Rodney Atkins used a lightweight and flexible LED Curtain video wall from PixelFlex to maximize the concert audiences’ experience through visual images and effects. Atkins’ team plans to use the curtain again for their dates starting in March.
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SANTA ANA, CA – Reinforcing the growing importance of advancing event safety to all live event producers and organizers, Take 1 Insurance announced its full support of the Event Safety Alliance (ESA) and that it will be promoting awareness of the ESA’s new United States Event Safety Guide, which is now open for peer review and comment on the ESA web site, eventsafetyalliance.org.
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