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Robe Flies with Hatupatu / Kurungaituku Production

Lighting Designer Jo Kilgour created edgy and graceful lighting for Hatupatu / Kurungaituku: a forbidden love, a breathtaking new aerial dance work produced by Aotearoa’s boundary-pushing kaupapa Māori theatre company, Taki Rua Productions. The work, written by creative director Tānemahuta Gray and Kapa Haka by Wētini Mītai-Ngātai, premiered at the Tãwhiri Warehouse in Wellington as part of the 2024 Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts.Read More »Robe Flies with Hatupatu / Kurungaituku Production

Mason Felps Sets Stage for Rock the Country Festivals with CHAUVET Professional

Don’s Seafood is an institution around Ascension Parish, famous for its Zydeco Shrimp, Fried Allegator, and other Cajun delicacies. But it’s been a long time since Don’s did the kind of business it did on April 5th and 6th. According to its owner, the 90-year old restaurant saw more than $20,000 in additional sales that weekend. The story at Don’s was repeated throughout Gonzales, a town of roughly 13,000 people, as every place from the local hotel to the service station and cowboy boots store did more business. That’s exactly just what the folks at 46 Entertainment and Peach Tree Entertainment were hoping for when they put together Rock The Country, a series of two-day festivals intended to give an economic boost to seven hard-hit small towns across the South.Read More »Mason Felps Sets Stage for Rock the Country Festivals with CHAUVET Professional

Absen Unveils Groundbreaking Commercial LED Products at InfoComm 2024

Absen Inc., the US subsidiary of Absen, the internationally acclaimed innovator in LED display technology, announces the Absenicon X Series and KLCOB V2 Series, two cutting-edge Micro LED solutions, and the Acclaim Series, AW Series, and NX Series, three commercial LED displays, which will debut at InfoComm 2024.Read More »Absen Unveils Groundbreaking Commercial LED Products at InfoComm 2024

Billy Strings Tour Continues with Equipment from Bandit Lites

Working with Lighting Designer Roger Gant, Montreal-based visual design company Lüz studio oversaw the lighting design, creative design and video content for Billy Strings’ ongoing US tour and festival dates, which feature Ayrton fixtures, grandMA3 consoles, and MDG theONE atmospheric generators provided by Bandit Lites, Inc. in Nashville. ACT Entertainment exclusively distributes all three product brands in North America.Read More »Billy Strings Tour Continues with Equipment from Bandit Lites

Rivale Profile Lights up Gazzelle’s 2024 Tour ‘Inside X always’ for Indoor Stadiums

After participating in Sanremo 2024, the Roman singer-songwriter Gazzelle, exponent of Italian indie pop, left for the Inside X always tour, with a total of 12 dates throughout Italy. For the lighting design, Lighting Designer Andrea Arlotti chose the innovative and powerful Ayrton Rivale Profile, the most versatile fixture in the Ayrton range, equipped with continuous rotation of the pan and tilt movement.Read More »Rivale Profile Lights up Gazzelle’s 2024 Tour ‘Inside X always’ for Indoor Stadiums

Seamless AV Chooses PROLIGHTS to Expand Its Inventory

Seamless AV has chosen PROLIGHTS’ Astra Wash19PixIP to update its inventory in response to the increased demand for outdoor installations. Alex Moffat, Director of Seamless AV, consulted Show Technology, the PROLIGHTS distributor in Australia, for the selection of new IP projectors to be included in the inventory. The choice fell on PROLIGHTS’ Astra Wash19PixIP.
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UCSD Student Designers Illuminate Winter Works Dance Production with Elation

‘¡Azúcar!’ with a lighting design by: Elba Emicente Sanchez

Lighting design students explore dynamic interplay of movement and light using Proteus Lucius and Fuze luminaires

Three lighting design students from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) recently had the opportunity to work with Elation Proteus Lucius and Fuze Wash Z350 moving head luminaires on Winter Works, a dance production featuring three original works by three professional choreographers from the UCSD dance faculty.Read More »UCSD Student Designers Illuminate Winter Works Dance Production with Elation

Ayrton Eurus Profile on Tour with Kontra K

Berlin-based Kontra K, the street-smart German rapper who tops the German hip-hop scene, has toured arenas across Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg throughout February and March. Lighting Designer, Marcus Herzog, specified 112 Ayrton Eurus Profile fixtures for his dramatic and highly dynamic lighting design on a stage designed by Kriss Hinrichsen for this special tour. The Eurus Profiles were provided by the tour’s lighting supplier, BBM Clair.Read More »Ayrton Eurus Profile on Tour with Kontra K

Andrew Dawson and Matt Chambers Accent Thrills at Big Air Show with CHAUVET Professional

It’s been said that until people sprout wings and fly, there will never be anything quite as thrilling as freestyle jumping. Anyone who attended the Big Air Show at the Blue Mountain Resort in Collingwood, Ontario, Canada. knows that feeling well. This year, instead of simply flying through the air the skiers and snowboarders who competed in the popular three-day event were able to work their magic in a field of light, thanks to a fast moving and colorful lighting design created with CHAUVET Professional fixtures supplied by Production Service Industries (PSI).Read More »Andrew Dawson and Matt Chambers Accent Thrills at Big Air Show with CHAUVET Professional

Matt Hemmele’s All CHAUVET Professional Color STRIKE M Rig Captures Mood at Elevation Church Night of Worship

Video walls and lights work hand-in-hand in production design, but sometimes, like when your goal is to create a seamless look for a broadcast recording, you might want to lose the LED panels and rely solely on lighting fixtures to generate visual energy.  This was the strategy that Matt Hemmele followed recently when lighting the widely acclaimed Elevation Church Night of Worship.