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Claypaky’s Xtylos Shines a Unique Light on Quebec TV’s Revolution Dance Show

Canada’s hit series Revolution, the biggest dance competition ever broadcast by Quebec television and airing on TVA, used Claypaky Xtylos to showcase the dynamic moves of the dancers facing off against each other for a $100,000 cash prize. Claypaky Xtylos is a compact moving beam light with unique optical and chromatic characteristics featuring a tailor-made RGB laser source.Read More »Claypaky’s Xtylos Shines a Unique Light on Quebec TV’s Revolution Dance Show

NAMM Announces 2023, 2024 NAMM Show Dates

NAMM has announced show dates for 2023 and 2024. After the 2022 show returns to the Anaheim Convention Center for three days this year (June 3-5), plans call for the 2023 event to be a three-day event also (April 13-15, 2023), followed by the return to the traditional January time-frame and four-day show (Jan. 25-28, 2024).

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Robe T1 Profile Luminaires at the Capitole Theatre in Ghent

Robe T1 Profile LED luminaires have been installed at the 1,700-person capacity Capitole Theatre in Ghent, Belgium, where they are deployed on the front lighting bridge for key lighting and specials, replacing the previous tungsten fixtures. The T1 Profile investment was part of a drive to update the remaining elements of the house lighting system to LED, making it better, more contemporary, and more sustainable.Read More »Robe T1 Profile Luminaires at the Capitole Theatre in Ghent

LIT Lighting Supplies Chauvet Professional Fixtures for Gem and Jam Festival

The Gem and Jam Festival took place Feb. 4-6 at the Pima County Fairgrounds in in Tucson, AZ. LIT Lighting provided more than 150 Chauvet Professional fixtures including Maverick MK2 Spot, STRIKE 1 and Rogue R2 Wash and R3 Beam fixtures. Working with guest LDs and others, Cody Lisle designed the sets and did the programming for the main stage.

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disguise Acquires Polygon Labs to Enable Cloud-Based Workflows

disguise announced its acquisition of broadcast data and content visualization solutions platform, Polygon Labs. This marks another milestone in its move towards cloud-based production that will enhance the disguise workflow to better address user needs in the fast-growing media production and broadcast markets.

Further information from disguise:Read More »disguise Acquires Polygon Labs to Enable Cloud-Based Workflows

2016 Indispensable Technology Nominations Now Open

Indispensable Technology (“IT”) Award Nominees Announced for 20th Annual Parnelli Awards

The 20th Annual Parnelli Awards, set to take place at the Anaheim Hilton on June 3 during NAMM, will include the Indispensable Technology (“IT”) Awards honoring product innovation in four categories—Lighting, Video, Staging and Audio. The “IT” Awards ballot includes six products in each category, and voting has begun.

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The Creative Factory Reflects Spirit of Winterrevue Made in Belgium with Chauvet Professional

“Everyone has the ambition to become a jester at some point in life.” Famed Belgian TV star Ingeborg Sergeant, called forth this quote from Ben Johnson when announcing online that she would be hosting Winterrevue Made in Belgium at the Theater Elckerlyc. The good doctor’s British ancestry notwithstanding, his words capture the carefree, happy spirt that marked this celebration of Belgian creativity.Read More »The Creative Factory Reflects Spirit of Winterrevue Made in Belgium with Chauvet Professional

The Shubert Organization Announces the Naming of the James Earl Jones Theatre

James Earl Jones and Phylicia Rashad in Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Broadhurst Theater in 2008. Photo by Joan Marcus

The Shubert Organization, Inc., announced that the 110-year-old Cort Theatre (138 West 48th Street) will become the James Earl Jones Theatre, in recognition of Jones’s lifetime of immense contributions to Broadway and the entire artistic community.Read More »The Shubert Organization Announces the Naming of the James Earl Jones Theatre

CT and LDG Choose Elation Broadcast Lighting for Super Bowl Sportscast Booths

Creative Technology supplied Elation broadcast lights to Lighting Design Group for use on sportscast booths and stages in and outside of SoFi Stadium during Super Bowl LVI in Los Angeles in February. Dennis Size, Executive Vice President of Design for Lighting Design Group, was responsible for the overall lighting design and turned to Elation Fuze Profile CW™ and KL Panel™ luminaires for key, fill, and wash lighting.Read More »CT and LDG Choose Elation Broadcast Lighting for Super Bowl Sportscast Booths