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Robe at Prolight + Sound 2024

Robe celebrates a BIG birthday at Prolight + Sound 2024 – the Czech manufacturer will be 30 – thirty years of proudly embracing the passion, joys and challenges of the entertainment and performance industry and constantly bringing new technology and ideas to the world of creative lighting and visual design. Naturally… there will be some brilliant new products launched in Hall 12.1 on stand D10, the centerpiece of which will be the iBOLTTM – a super-bright high powered searchlight type of fixture guaranteed to blow people away with its brightness and features.Read More »Robe at Prolight + Sound 2024

Robe Assists Kontrafakt to Enter New Era

Show Designer and Director Martin Hruska wanted to create an ambitious, breathtakingly visual and memorable performance space for Slovak rap group Kontrafakt to deliver their highly anticipated “New Era” concerts at Prague’s O2 Arena in the Czech capital, a challenge achieved with the assistance of nearly 200 Robe moving lights and a spectacular automated stage set. The Robe fixtures, a mix of 51 FORTES, 24 MegaPointes, 57 Pointes, 44 Tetra2 LED moving battens and 10 Tetra1s and three BMFL FollowSpots – were all supplied by leading Slovakian company Ministry Rental. Lighting was programmed and run for the show by lighting designer Lukáš Patzenhauer, who joined a highly talented team of creatives led by Martin.Read More »Robe Assists Kontrafakt to Enter New Era

Robe Imbibes the ISE Vibes

Robe lighting enjoyed the great vibes, brisk business, lively atmosphere, and fantastic visitor numbers checking out the 2024 Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) expo at FIRA Barcelona, Spain. The 20th anniversary of this constantly expanding show broke all previous records with over 73,000 verified attendees, up 27% on the 2023 edition, cementing its place as a prime entertainment technology showcase in Europe. For the first time there was a dedicated lighting / staging sector hall, and Robe was happy to be there at the heart of all the action, presenting some of its latest technologies.Read More »Robe Imbibes the ISE Vibes

Robe at ISE 2024

Robe Lighting will exhibit on booths 1C700 and 1D700 in Hall 1 at the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) expo 30th January to 2nd Feb February 2024 at Fira Barcelona in Spain, where it and sister businesses – Anolis, Avolites, and Artistic Licence – will share a dynamic space and present an interesting array of new and popular products.

LD Yaron Abulafia Chooses Robe Tetra2s for Dutch National Ballet

Stark, raw, and provocative, Full Frontal is an uncompromising new dance piece by Choreographer Juanjo Arqués billed as ‘a ballet about real people and actual feelings’ set to “Weather One” a musical score by Michael Gordon. It was presented by the Dutch National Ballet and staged at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. It explores the stresses and tensions of our fractured and often polarized society as it faces physical obstacles that swap—ironically—with psychological projections of challenging conditions.Read More »LD Yaron Abulafia Chooses Robe Tetra2s for Dutch National Ballet

Robe Helps ‘De Tocht’ Production Look Icy Cool

De Tocht is an exciting new ice-based musical production staged in the purpose-built 1475-capacity Friso Theater in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. Directed by Eddy Habbema and choreographed by Marc Forno, the production design was created by Luc Peumans, artistic director of Painting with Light (PWL), whose brief encompassed lighting, video and scenography, an ambitious collage of visual disciplines to capture all the skating action presented in “spectacular” style.Read More »Robe Helps ‘De Tocht’ Production Look Icy Cool

GR-Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre Boosts Robe Inventory

GR-Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre. Photo by Louise Stickland.

GR-Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre (GR) is a bustling 23-hall venue operating in the middle of the Slovenian capital, hosting a variety of national and international expos and trade fairs. It is also used for television productions, special live events, and some music concerts.Read More »GR-Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre Boosts Robe Inventory

Joker Out for Robe

Slovenian indie rockers Joker Out are the hottest musical act of the moment in this lively, beautiful, and dynamic European country. Formed in 2016, 2023 has been a mega-busy year with lots of touring shows, representing Slovenia at the Eurovision Song Contest in the UK, and recently playing a show-stopping sold-out performance at Ljubljana’s biggest arena venue, Stožice, which was lit by Klemen Krajnc, part of the Blackout design studio. This was an all-Robe moving light rig – with 100 Robe luminaires breaking down as 32 MegaPointes, 64 Spiiders, 19 LEDBeam 150s, and 13 FORTES plus a quantity of strobes and LED floods.Read More »Joker Out for Robe

Seriously Magical New Tech for Robe at LDI

Robe launches four new products on Booth 911A at the LDI 2023 expo in Las Vegas next week – the iT12 Profile™, the T32 Cyc™, and two new variants of the cool and successful PATT series of scenic illumination, the HolyPATT™ and the MolyPATT™. Additionally, shown for the first time at an expo in North America will be Robe’s new iSeries of IP rated and robustly weatherized moving lights – the incredible iFORTE LTX® currently the most powerful LED moving head on the market – together with iESPRITE®, iPAINTE®, iTetra2™ and iBeam350™ luminaires, all of which are expected to attract huge interest in North America.Read More »Seriously Magical New Tech for Robe at LDI