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The Arto of Robe

Arto’s lighting team manager Alain Meys on the left with Mattias Ternoot from Controllux

Arto Company is a rental and full technical production company – lighting, sound, video, rigging etc. – based in Wavre, the French-speaking region of Belgium – and working vigorously across the concert touring, festival, live event, and corporate sectors. Their first Robe purchase was in 2019, and since then the inventory has expanded dramatically with the latest purchases being 16 x iFORTES, 48 x LEDBeam 350s and 18 x Tetra2s, which join over 100 other Robe fixtures in the house, including 24 x ESPRITES, 48 x LEDBeam 150s, 18 x T1 Profiles and two RoboSpot systems.Read More »The Arto of Robe

Robe T1s Go ‘Upstream’ for National Ballet of Portugal Production

Groundbreaking choreographer and contemporary dance innovator Andrew McNicol presented the world premiere of Upstream, his first collaboration with the Companhia Nacional de Bailado (CNB) – the National Ballet of Portugal – for which he asked acclaimed Lighting Designer Yaron Abulafia to create scenography and lighting for the performance which was staged at the São Carlos Opera House, Lisbon, Portugal. Upstream was presented as part of a trilogy of works, together with Baracco Concerto by the late George Balanchine and Workwithinwork (which originally premiered in 1998) by William Forsythe – three distinctive works from very different eras and generations of choreographers based on classical dance.Read More »Robe T1s Go ‘Upstream’ for National Ballet of Portugal Production

Robe ESPRITES Rock Melbourne Fashion Festival

The 2024 PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival celebrated some of the best of Australian fashion design, imagination, style and flair, with a main show space at the Royal Exhibition Buildings in Melbourne – recognized by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee as a prime example of 19th century international exhibition architecture. All Lighting and AV equipment for the week-long festival was supplied by full production services provider, Harry the Hirer Productions, led by Technical Producer Marcus Pugh.Read More »Robe ESPRITES Rock Melbourne Fashion Festival

Robe Gets Magical for Mat Franco Las Vegas Residency

Photo by B-Freed Photography

Award-winning magician Mat Franco’s current Las Vegas residency—Magic Reinvented Nightly—is staged at the Mat Franco Arena at The LINQ Las Vegas Hotel + Experience, and is a fast-and-furious, thrilling show-stopper full of cool tricks and humor…  immersing and delighting fans. Production and Lighting Designer Scott Chmielewski from design studio DMDS7UDIOS was first asked to create a lighting environment for this show in 2020 when it launched. Chmielewski has worked with Creative Director / Producer Brian Burke on top TV shows like American Idol and America’s Got Talent and has crafted his own multidisciplinary lighting aesthetic blending the theatrical with the televisual.Read More »Robe Gets Magical for Mat Franco Las Vegas Residency

Simple Minds Goes Global with Robe

Simple Minds, iconic Scottish rock band of the 1980s and 90s whose string of anthemic hits include “Don’t You Forget About Me”, “Waterfront”, “I Promised You A Miracle”, and many, many more, are back on the road for their 2024 Global Tour, playing arenas and proving perennially popular to both old and new generations of music fans. The production has also been growing and developing in size and dynamics with Robe iFORTE and BMFL moving lights assisting Show and Lighting Designer Mark Wynn-Edwards to produce a colorful, eye-catching, and emotionally charged show supporting the band’s powerful up-tempo set which is thrilling the crowds.Read More »Simple Minds Goes Global with Robe

Progressing to LEDBeam 350s

Audio Progress owner and founder, Malcolm McKinnon with his LEDBeam 350s. Photos by Louise Stickland.

Audio Progress is a busy and inventive audio, lighting, and staging company based in Palmerston North tucked into the beautiful southern rural heartlands of New Zealand’s North Island, about 150km from capital city Wellington. The enterprise is run by Malcolm McKinnon, who founded it back in the 1980s, originally as an audio specialist, and since then, he and the team have built a solid reputation for delivering high quality productions for all types of shows and events, concerts, and festivals.Read More »Progressing to LEDBeam 350s

Robe Catches the Action for Nina Pušlar Show

Talented Slovenian singer-songwriter Nina Pušlar played a major sold-out show in Ljubljana’s 14,400-capacity Stožice Arena which was recorded for broadcast on national TV and celebrated the dropping of some exciting new music from Pušlar, for which her team including Creative Director Anže Škrube wanted a spectacular production. Lighting Designer Amadej Šuperger from design studio Blackout specified large quantities of Robe moving lights which made up 75% of the lighting. The positions were facilitated by an angled triangular truss in the center with four bracing trusses flanked by raked grids of crisscrossing trusses in the roof above the stage, which brought a structural look and industrial tone to the performance area. It also amplified the depth of the performance space.Read More »Robe Catches the Action for Nina Pušlar Show

Metropool Hengelo Boosts Robe Moving Light Stock

Metropool Poppodia van Twente is a music, pop, and cultural organization based in the Twente region, of the Overijssel province in east Netherlands. It offers a vibrant program of live music, dance and club nights and other events, and is adjacent to the train station for excellent public transport access. Priding itself in delivering the very best production values to artists, bands and audiences, the venue has been investing in Robe moving lights over several years which have been very successful, and the latest batch was just recently delivered by Benelux distributor, Controllux, comprising LEDBeam 350s, LEDBeam 150s, T1 Profiles, and T11 Profiles.Read More »Metropool Hengelo Boosts Robe Moving Light Stock

Robe has A Laugh with Lado Bizovicar at Slovenska Muska Event

Slovenian writer, actor, and TV personality Lado Bizovicar presented the 2024 Slovenska Muska extravaganza event, staged at Ljubljana’s Stožice arena, the first time in the venue’s history that a 360° show had been presented, which bumped up the capacity to 13,000, with every seat sold. The production and lighting design was created by Crt Birsa of design studio Blackout and Greta Godnic and recorded for broadcast. Birsa utilized 355 Robe lighting fixtures in the 500+ luminaires on the rig, from the high-powered FORTE to the scenic PATT 2013 plus seven other types of Robe product, all supplied by rental specialist Event Lighting from Ljubljana.Read More »Robe has A Laugh with Lado Bizovicar at Slovenska Muska Event

Valmar Plays Hard with Robe at Budapest Arena

Máté Lukacsovics and Ale Geszler from Budapest, Hungary-based lighting design studio Highlight Studios created an eye-popping design for a high-profile one-off concert by Hungarian artist and pop-rock band Valmar at the 12,500-capacity Budapest Arena … which was completely sold out. It was the band’s largest concert to date, and the brief was to create a memorable lighting design that met the occasion and thrilled everyone involved, from the artist and his production team to his enthusiastic and ever-growing fan base.Read More »Valmar Plays Hard with Robe at Budapest Arena

Robe Rocks the Circus Again

Rock Circus Volume 2 – a completely new version of this exhilarating performance concept – returned to the stage at IFEMA in Madrid, Spain, produced by Productores de Sonrisas, choreographed by Albert Sala, and lit by Juanjo Llorens with a set design by Anna Calvo. The show meshed the thrills of extreme circus with a string of the most inspiring and monumental rock anthems.Read More »Robe Rocks the Circus Again

Robe Acquires LSC Control Systems

Robe’s Josef Valchar on the left with LSC’s Gary Pritchard

Robe Lighting s.r.o. has acquired LSC Control Systems PTY in Australia, a move that sees the Czech Republic lighting manufacturer further consolidate its portfolio of leading lighting and control brands. Having LSC’s power distribution (PD) systems as a core element of the ‘Robe Business’ Team made perfect sense following the purchase of console manufacturer Avolites in September last year, explained Robe’s CEO Josef Valchar.Read More »Robe Acquires LSC Control Systems