BERLIN – LD Markus Weitkamp is gearing up for the 2011 touring season for Circus Roncalli with newly-purchased Robe Robin LEDWash 600 moving lights. Weitkamp acquired the fixtures just prior to the circus' seventh annual Christmas series of shows, which were staged at the Tempodrom Möckernstrasse. The Roncalli Circus already owns its own lighting equipment, including eight Robe ColorWash 575E AT Zooms and eight ColorSpot 700E ATs, which were purchased earlier in 2010 from Robe's Germany distributor LMP.
With more than 300 shows a year on the annual touring schedule, a reputation for reliability was a key factor steering Weitkamp to the Robe brand.
Shortly before the Festive Season shows in Berlin, LMP demoed the LEDWash 600s, and Weitkamp ordered six, crediting the fixtures for "efficiency, brightness and small size," along with color-mixing, a "proper" white, pastels, and zoom range.
The LEDWash 600s were rigged on trussing around the circus ring, along with the ColorWash 575E AT Zooms, the ColorSpot 700E ATs and the rest of the lighting rig, which included 20 Robe ColorWash 700E ATs rented from Berlin-based TSE AG. There were also a host of generics and LED units, all of which were programmed and run by Wietkamp on a grandMA console.
For the Christmas show, Wietkamp used the LEDWashes as pure wash lights, bathing the ring in an array of colors. The fixtures will be put to use on the 2011 touring shows as well.
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