SERIATE, Italy — Clay Paky named Ashley Lewis as its regional sales manager for the U.K. and Ireland. A 20-year veteran in the entertainment lighting business, he will be responsible for supporting Clay Paky customers in the region. Lewis is pictured left, with Clay Paky’s international sales director, Pio Nahum, center, and Emilio Cornelli, sales manager, right.
DUNKERQUE, France — A waste disposal plant may seem an unlikely candidate for urban beautification, but that didn’t stop the Dunkerque City Council in France from specifying an architectural lighting installation for the Dunkerque Littoral Pole de Valorisation des Dechets.
STUTTGART, Germany — With over 400 Martin luminaires used to paint a mammoth touring set, classical artist André Rieu recently completed the European leg of “A Romantic Vienna Night,” his world stadium tour, which moves to North America in April.
ZURICH, Switzerland — One candidate, 100 opponents and potentially more than $250,000 at stake — that is the gist of the "1 against 100" quiz show from SF (Schweizer Fernsehen).
NORTH CREEK, NY — Creative Stage Lighting will host a Webinar titled “Lighting Design 101: The Art of Illumination, Part II” on April 16 at 3:30 p.m. EST. It follows Part I, which took place in February, and features guest speakers Richard Cadena and Jeff Ravitz.
LOS ANGELES — After a year of testing on stages at the Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera and Washington National Opera, AGMA (the American Guild of Musical Artists) has issued a Certificate of Compliance to Interesting Products allowing the use of their LN2 (liquid nitrogen) foggers on stage by all AGMA signatory Opera and Ballet Companies.
DALLAS — Custom hoists made by Vortek, a division of Daktronics Inc., have been installed at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. The hoists manipulate hanging seating sections and work with Vortek Pro Series hoists in the theatre’s complex fly system.
CINCINNATI —Scott Mollman, technical director for the Theatre Department at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, S.D. won the Jack Suesse Memorial "Stump The Rigger" trophy at the USITT conference in Cincinnati. Bill Sapsis of Sapsis Rigging, Inc., pictured left, presents the award to Mollman, right.
BASSANO DEL GRAPPA, Italy — Manfrotto, an Italian manufacturer of camera and lighting supports, has formed a partnership Staging Systems Europe S.p.A. (formerly known as Litec), covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
KNOXVILLE, TN — Bandit Lites has named Chris Barbee as the company’s national director of sales and installations. He had served the company for eight years as sales and installations design specialist, helping the company forge design-build relationships and expand its client base.
MIAMI — When you’re dealing with a TV reality show set’s limited trim height, size matters. Carlos Collina, LD for Univision’s reality TV show, Nuestra Belleza Latina, needed a compact fixture that could deliver a big look. Working with Rick Rudolph of Stage Equipment and Lighting, he chose Coemar Infinity S Series lights for the job.
TRINIDAD and TOBAGO — PR Lighting fixtures supplied by the company’s distributors, All Events Lighting Systems, were used to light two major festivals here, “The Festival — Night of the Stars” and “Arabian Nights.”