ASTANA and ALMATY, Kazakhstan – More than 1,500 athletes representing 27 Asian nations and 45 National Olympic Committees recently competed at the Asian Winter Games. ARG (Moscow) called in The Prolyte Group to support their vision for the Opening Ceremony. Staged at the newly-built 30,000-seat Astana Arena, the ceremony depicted the history of Kazakhstan, aided by a virtual "eagle's eye view" of the country's vast plains. The ceremony included dancing, singing, distinctive musical instruments and props.
The centerpiece was a waterfall that cascaded from the top of the set with lighting transforming the stage into a storm-tossed boat at sea, in search for new lands. The show ended with a giant snowball fight with sponge "snowballs."
In addition to Prolyte, ARG commissioned companies including PRG, LMP, Visual Act, Live Sound Agency and Lightmaster and Big Screen Service from Russia to bring the show to life.
Prolyte Group supplied a range of trussing from the ProlyteStructures range and ProLyft hoists for the event.
To cover the arena roof structure, the crews installed more than 700 meters of B100 truss, 770 meters of S66R truss and more than 2,600 meters of H40V truss and used about 310 1000-kg ProLyft hoists, and 34 2000-kg hoists with 36 to 40 meters of chain to lift the structures.
"With the massive loads applied to the main grid, many of them being dynamic loads – resulting from al the moving props in the show – the grid had to be 100 percent reliable," noted Aigars Dimza from ARS. "Prolyte provided the best solution. The excellent support from the Prolyte team, represented by account manager Henry Schuil, gave us complete confidence."
Pictures courtesy of Leonid Chernyi.
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