OWATONNA, MN — Wenger Corporation’s new StageTek staging was designed to offer the user more benefits over its older product line. The StageTek staging assembles quickly without tools, folding frames or other cumbersome understructure. The decks are 20 percent lighter than comparably sized Wenger Versalite decks and feature integrated hand grips that require 40 percent less grip strength to handle. Assembly time is also reduced.
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IOWA CITY, IA — The University of Iowa theatre department recently turned to PixelFLEX and its flexible and portable LED Curtain systems to enhance the school’s live productions. The department recently installed a PixelFLEX 30mm LED Curtain to provide video and graphic elements to the three distinctive venues on campus.
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LAS VEGAS – Chaos Visual Productions celebrated the New Year with shows on both ends of the Las Vegas Strip. Performances from The Killers and Red Hot Chili Peppers entertained at The Chelsea Ballroom in The Cosmopolitan Hotel, while Beyonce rang in the New Year at The Wynn Hotel. Dick Clark Productions’ Rockin’ New Year’s Eve was also on the calendar of Chaos.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The lobby of the old Michigan National Bank was one of the downtown Grand Rapids’ historic treasures. But the stunning space had sat empty for more than a decade after the bank branch closed. Then, in 2012, the bank lobby received new life when it was converted into a ballroom for the CityFlats Hotel. This rejuvenation was accomplished with help from LiveSpace, which designed and installed the room’s lighting and sound systems, and Elation Professional lighting products.
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EL PASO — More than 200 Chauvet Professional video panels became the central part of Audible, an EDM event featuring Deadmau5, Chris Lake and Audrey Napoleon. Creative Production & Design of Austin, TX, supplied the gear. “The design of this show depended on the transparent nature of the columns and the MVP 18 panels where a perfect fit,” said Justin Jenkins, director of Creative Production & Design. “This transparency has allowed us to not only layer video designs, such as this one, but to also allow lighting to be mounted behind the panels and ‘blow through’ for an additive effect.”
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LANDSDOWNE, PA – The newest member of the SRI team is Patrick Finn, an ETCP Certified Rigger – Theatre. Finn most recently worked for a rigging manufacturing company, first as a project manager and then as a product manager handling product development.
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PHILADELPHIA – The Pennsylvania Ballet is shining a new light on its 25th anniversary production of “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker” by using a dozen Clay Paky Alpha Spot QWO 800 fixtures. Pin Point Lighting supplied the lighting, as they have done since 2000.
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FLORENCE, Italy — For a theatrical touring production of Nascosto Dove c’e piu Luce (Hidden Where There Is More Light) featuring Italian actor/comedian Gioele Dix, set and lighting designers Francesca Pedrotti and Carlo Signorini chose Quadro L16 fixtures from RED Lighting as an integral part of the production’s abstract design.
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SYRACUSE, NY — Frank Willard, vice president of Syracuse Scenery & Stage Lighting Co., Inc., passed away unexpectedly on Jan. 8, 2013. Willard, who was drawn to technical theatre as a student at Watertown, NY-based Jefferson Community College in the early 1970s, joined Syracuse Scenery in 1975 and was its representative as a founding member of the Theatrical Dealers Association (then ESTA, now PLASA). Willard also was an ETCP-certified rigger and a member of JR Clancy’s dealer advisory board.
Read More »SALT LAKE CITY — ClearOne reported that it had entered into a settlement agreement with UBS Financial Services on an auction-rate securities dispute dating back to 2008. UBS agreed to pay $45 million. ClearOne also noted that an arbitration panel denied a similar claim against Morgan Stanley.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Working together with architect Mark Cavagnero Associates and SIA Acoustics, Auerbach Pollock Friedlander provided theatre and video consulting for the new SFJAZZ Center, which opened Jan. 21. The new three-story Center’s main venue, the Robert N. Miner Auditorium, can be formatted with as many as eight configurations, seating 350 to 700. Other spaces include the Ensemble Room for rehearsals or as an intimate performance space, three practice rooms and a digital lab.
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ROTTERDAM, Netherlands – Rotterdam-based rental company Peitsman Licht en Geluid (Light & Sound) has purchased Robe’s latest Robin DLX Spot and DLF Wash fixtures, becoming the first DLF users in the Benelux region. Of the new purchase, 10 DLFs and six DLXs went straight out on tour with Percossa, a high energy percussion ensemble now touring Benelux and France.
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