PLSN spoke with TAIT’s Paul Sapsis, Technical Director about the flying system and TAIT’s work on the Apple Music Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show Starring Rihanna. “We did a lot of very conventional work to do a very unconventional thing, said Sapsis. “Think of the system, essentially as a theatrical counterweight system driven by closed loop counterweight assist winches. Then to deploy that system theatrically, we laid out points like riggers and then built trusses into the roof itself for our sheave points and for where we had to do field rigging, essentially making their grid into a theatrical grid. We had eight points per platform. Eight points, four lines a side. Then we replicate the geometry that we hit on the platform with the rig in the air. So, what we get is a one-for-one solution on line length so that we can essentially pull an arbor up and down backstage and each one of those eight lines are all moving the same length of stroke in the real world.”
From PLSN March 2023 issue page 42 or read it online here
