The Awards honored productions and practitioners from the world of theatre, film and live arts. Equal space was given to street art, site specific interventions, socially engaged performance and puppet theatre as well as conventional forms of theatre.
The 10 Awards categories included visuals, sound, production and stage design and emerging talents, and also featured the Golden Triga for the Best Exposition. The “Best Use of Theatre Technology” Award went to Croatia’s “Numen/For Use” project.
Attended by thousands of international visitors, the 10-day PQ symposium examined various technical and creative aspects of theatre and performance design (scenography) in the context of contemporary trends in this and other art and cultural disciplines. Robe provided 10 Robin 600 LEDWashes and 10 Robin 600 Spots to help light the Awards ceremony.
Robe’s programmer Ales Gill and technician Tomas Bierza were also part of the package. They worked with the Awards’ lighting designer, Felice Ross, who came from Israel.
The Robe fixtures were rigged above the stage and used for washing the space and for general downlighting and coloration. They added dynamics and flexibility, augmenting the theatre’s existing generic lighting rig, and ensured that the Awards show had the option of some special visual treatments.
Ross chose the Robin 600s for their compact size, light weight and brightness. Weight in particular was an issue, as the fixtures had to be flown from the venue’s house trusses which already contained their own fixtures and had a limited weight loading. The low power requirements of the Robin fixtures were also a consideration, and the ongoing and longterm environmental sustainability of various technologies was a topic frequently discussed during the PQ.
Earlier in the day at the same New Stage venue, Felice Ross gave a presentation and seminar on the use of moving lights in design, and she used some of these same Robe fixtures as examples and to illustrate part of her lecture.
Also at the PQ, Robe arranged for a special Showlight 2013 presentation to be given by Ian Dow, chairman of the 2013 Showlight Committee from the U.K. This exposition – also every 4 years – will be staged in Cesky Krumlov in 2013, sponsored and co-organized by Robe.
The PQ included an extensive program of expositions, installations, lectures, seminars, discussions and performances that offered numerous opportunities for professionals, artists, students and other interested parties to interact, discuss, debate, innovate and exchange thoughts and ideas on multiple aspects of stage design and related fields.
“The PQ is a major international event for anyone engaged or interested in the live, performing and cinematic arts, and particularly with it being Czech based, it is important for us to be involved and proactive,” noted Jiri Baros, Robe’s marketing & communications manager. “Technology is one part of the equation — the other is its application through the ideas, imagination and invention of creative minds.”
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