MELBOURNE, Australia — Peter Mumford’s Helpmann Award winning lighting design for King Kong The Musical includes ETC Source Four LED Lustr+ profiles and Vari-Lite VL3500 units, among other gear.
ROSKILDE, Denmark — Around 1025 AD, a fierce 120-foot Viking warship of the Danish fleet rode the northern waves. Excavated in 1997 from a Roskilde fjord bed, the ship has now been partly restored. A steel skeleton has been built around its wooden remains. Roskilde 6 makes a new “voyage,” in the National Museum of Denmark’s exhibit Viking, June 22-Nov. 17, 2013. ETC’s Source Four LED fixtures, controlled by an ETC Ion console and Unison Paradigm system, bring the vessel to light.
MIDDLETON, WI — ETC has opened registration for its second CUE event for end-users. The biennial three-day educational event is set to take place at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center in Madison, WI from July 23-25. The event is open to all people interested in learning more about how to use ETC products, along with more information about ETC.
NORMANDY, France – The nuclear blast at Hiroshima in 1945 is often described in Japanese as a flash (pika) followed by a bang (don). Last year, a performance lit with ETC Source Four LED Lustr+ fixtures aimed to represent the unexpected terror of the pika don through the medium of dance. Un Coup de Don, by dance company Ariadone and led by Carlotta Ikeda and Ko Morobushi (Japan), was part of the Festival Automne in Normandy, France.
MIDDLETON, WI – ETC CEO Fred Foster received the 10th annual Ken Hendricks Memorial ‘Seize the Day’ Award at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference in Middleton, WI. The award celebrates entrepreneurial leaders who have been crucial to Wisconsin’s economic growth. The award is not given for technical innovation but for innovative leadership – the ability to transform business opportunities into successes.
MIDDLETON, WI — ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.) is expanding its manufacturing capacity with the purchase of a 350,000 square-foot building in Mazomanie, WI. ETC will move portions of its manufacturing and warehousing to the new facility while maintaining its headquarters in Middleton, WI. Portions of the new facility are expected to open this fall. ETC does not anticipate a reduction in its workforce.
MIDDLETON, WI – ETC is now accepting applications for its LDI Student Sponsorship. The program awards deserving students an all-expense-paid trip to the LDI 2013 tradeshow taking place Nov. 22-24 in Las Vegas. There are other networking perks as well. Applications are open until May 10, 2013.
VIENNA – Ready to retire their 16-year-old lighting console, the Vienna State Opera has taken delivery of an ETC Gio lighting system, following an extensive search over a number of years. The theater invested in four Gio desks, along with two ETC Remote Processor Units (RPUs) and an ETC Ion system to cover the main stage lighting, auditorium and Kinderzelt, a tent on the roof for children.