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The dance company's technical manager Steven Wilkins worked closely with set designer Jerome Kaplan to devise a set comprising five sets of portal legs that would track on and off stage to different positions to create the various scenes.

"The portal legs were to be moved by the dancers and had to move freely and easily," says Wilkins. "As always at Northern Ballet we set about converting the designer's model into a 3D virtual world to prove that the show will work in the diverse range of venues we tour to. Once we'd worked out the weight of the scenic pieces and that it was within the safe working load of the track Unitrack was an easy choice.

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Aldean is a double-Platinum recording artist who has had nine singles reach #1 on the Hot Country Songs charts. Bandit Lites Inc. is providing him with 24 Sharpys on the tour along with a pair of grandMA2 lighting consoles.

"The show design by Mike Swinford incorporates a lot of automation," notes Bandit Lites client rep Michael Golden. "Video panels carry the fixtures."

Lighting designer and programmer Aaron Swetland calls the show "very dynamic" with "a lot of elements and layers. The automated video screens move in all directions with 24 axes of movement."

Swetland says the <

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Lighting was designed by Martin Kubanka, Slovakia's top television LD, and included over 100 Robe fixtures including LEDWash 600s and 1200s, ROBIN MMX Spots, ROBIN 300 and 600 Beams and LEDBeam 100s.

Kubanka worked closely with set designer Daniel Sichman on creating the show aesthetics which also featured a plethora of LED screens and lightsources in addition to all the Robes. The majority of the lighting and video together with the L-Acoustics Kara sound system, plus over 50 points of rigging was supplied by leading Slovakian technical solutions provider, Q-99.<

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"The main design concept as far as the ÉPIX Strip lights were concerned was to have a way to expand our video surfaces throughout the lighting rig," said lighting designer for the tour Justin Kitchenman. "Our lighting trusses cover the width and breadth of half the arena. We wanted to create the feeling that the entire space was alive with colour and motion." Kitchenman accomplished this by adding rows of single hung strips throughout the rig and then mapping them into the full screen video. The fixtures were provided by Elite Multimedia Productions with headquarters in Memphis, Tenn.

"We were already utilising the ArKaos media serve

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Lumonic director Mike Edwards comments, "We are delighted that Hugh and his team have decided to become distributors for the ilumo brand in Hong Kong and Singapore. Our brand fits perfectly with the ethos that drives Pacific Lighting. That is they strive to bring innovative lighting units to their market place, supported by technical knowledge and expertise and backed up with many years' experience in theatre, opera and leading festival lighting. They operate at the professional end of the market place offering excellent service to their discerning clients."

Hugh Chinnick, director Pacific Lighting adds, "Over the past 14 years Pacific Lighting has gained a reputation for supplying quality lighting products to the expanding professional entertainment markets in the region, and

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The success of the operation, launched in 2009 by well-known industry engineer Dik Welland, has been built on the fast turnarounds, friendly and efficient service, attention to detail and the quality of the repairs - all of which carry a 90 day warranty, but are rarely seen again.

"We pride ourselves on the excellent recovery rate," says Welland.

The Lighting Hospital space now comprises over 2500sq.ft dedicated to the repair of lighting fixtures of all types, specialising in electronic ballasts and moving light control boards as well as the full fixtures themselves and also lighting consoles.

Welland and his team of engineers and tec

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Carson - who has worked with HSL on several previous projects including Chase & Status - was instrumental in getting the company on-board, where the account was project managed by Mike Oates.

Says Carson, "I wanted a lighting supplier that I knew could deliver the best quality kit, crew and attitude - HSL were my first choice."

Sandé's meteoric career trajectory which includes some interesting and inventive collaborations - has included three number one singles and a number one album Our Version of Events in the last two years and she performed at both Opening and Closing Ce

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Tourmanagement.com is a web-based application for touring bands where you "centralise every bit of information about a tour so band and crew members can follow and manage their calendars and access crucial information from wherever they are".

The service was founded by Roeland Veugelen, tour manager of Belgian singer songwriter Milow. "I was constantly updating people about the current situation of the tour; where we were

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Running for three days, the show drew in some of the biggest names in theatre, TV and stage production.

Primetime, one of Le Mark's key Scandinavian distributors, reported an excellent level of interest in all products including the MagTape professional gaffer tape and ever growing Dirty Rigger gloves & accessories range.

Hannah Attfield commented: "Primetime and their staff are one of the most professional teams I've ever dealt with. They fully understand our products and offer outstanding service to their customers which is so important when distributing and representing our established brands."

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According to CTICC general manager for operations, Aage Hansen, the centre has entered into a business partnership with IVTM, who will now be responsible for overseeing all the audio-visual requirements and solutions for the centre and its clients.

The new appointment supersedes the existing partnership between the CTICC and its former in house audio visual supplier AV Alliance, whose contract concluded on 30 April 2013.

"As a convention centre committed to continually raising the benchmark in terms of creating memorable experiences, the CTICC places a key emphasis on partnering with suppliers who share this vision" says Hansen. "Partnering with IVTM, who boast an array of innovative leading audio visual

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The brainchild of former Target CEO Bob Ulrich, MIM houses more than 15,000 instruments from around 200 countries and territories around the world, many of which were used in folk and tribal settings.

According to Greenbaum, improving the sound system's imaging and coverage was one of his first priorities. A Meyer Sound solution was recommended by Lowell Pickett, MIM Music Theatre's artistic director, who had previously worked with Meyer Sound as a co-owner at Minneapolis's Dakota jazz club.

"The clarity and intelligibility are so much better now," Greenbaum says. "The differe

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The new 8mm product is lightweight, low profile and silent in operation due to its fan-less design. With full outdoor brightness and high contrast to ensure optimal operation in direct sunlight, the product has been specifically developed by LiveDots in consultation with CT to service the companies growing portfolio of high profile sports events.

The C8 investment follows CT's successful introduction of the C5 and specially developed C16 as its mainstream indoor LED platform in early 2012. The C5 has established itself as one of the High Resolution product others are judged against and CT expect the C8 to be similarly successful.

The new product is expected to arrive at CT in May and wil

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While the performance hall holds 5,500 in its open configuration (mainly to accommodate graduations), seating is reduced to 4,200 when moveable walls slide out to form twin 650-seat lecture halls on each side, and reduced further to 1,800 when a thick acoustical curtain closes off the balcony for concerts. However, the 1.

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St. Augustine's beautiful interior is highly reverberant, which is well suited for its pipe organ and 78-voice choir. However, the church's acoustics have always been a challenge for voice intelligibility, so St. Augustine's worked with Steve Merrill of Stage Right Productions to install a new sound reinforcement system based on Community's Entasys 200 loudspeakers and dSPEC Loudspeaker Processor.

"The old sound system put the sound everywhere," said

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Three Days Grace and Shinedown are co-headlining a national arena tour, which commenced in February.

"Using Sharpy is almost mandatory these days," reports Mike Filsinger, the lighting designer for Three Days Grace. "It's an advanced light - pretty much the only technological advancement in lights lately: Clay Paky has really done the R&D to make better fixtures and is now reaping the rewards."

Bandit Lites supplied 28 Sharpys in the main package. A primary lighting rig serves both shows; each band also has a supplemental rig. Three Days Grace has eight additional Sharpys in its package; Filsinger's Sharpys are the dominant light in the rig and are used in the air and on the floor. Shinedown has 24 additional Sharpys, whi

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One of the Foundation's most treasured retreats is The International Centre for Meditation and Well-Being, located in the lush, rolling hills of the Great Smokey Mountains. It's an idyllic piece of Planet Earth, where visitors can immerse themselves in the grandeur of nature, while retuning their bodies and minds with yoga, meditation, and organic diet.

The retreat's Meditation Hall is a large, multi-purpose space that is used for everything from yoga and m

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The greatest challenge for the system designers was posed by the room acoustics, as the reverberation time in the church of St. John the Evangelist had been measured at a full 2.9 seconds. A further stipulation of the commission was that the loudspeakers should blend unobtrusively into the background and complement the architecture of the building. Sound Engineering by Design (SED) of Dublin was the company entrusted with the task of confronting these challenges.

Horn-loaded EVH loudspeakers from Electro-Voice meet the triple challenge of hig

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CPL's client was festival organisers ARC AP. The festival's directors are Ben Thompson from the ARC Festival and Will Young from interactive experimentalists Luma, who asked CPL's Nick Diacre to specify and supply a video system for the main stage and co-ordinate the supply of AV and lighting equipment to various VJs and visual collectives working in other areas of the site.

The idea for the Main Stage tent was to make the projections as immersive as possible given the staging set up. Each artist performing onstage was accompanied by a VJ and / or active visuals.

Will Young designed

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What's Next conferences are scheduled to take place in New York City (8 June), London (6 July), Los Angeles (10 August) and Tokyo (14 September. At each event, a panel of industry visionaries and professional artists will gather for a live interactive discussion designed to help musicians answer important questions, such as: Is live music the future of the indu

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Tutchener is using the new Clay Paky Sharpy Wash and the Alpha Spot QWO 800. "I knew the Sharpy Wash was coming, and had read about the QWO 800s, so I suggested to Noreen O'Riordan at Entec that we should take a look. She agreed and we duly set of for a demo at Ambersphere. There are many features that attracted me, even on first examination you see they're not huge hulking great lumps of metal work.

O'Riordan comments, "As a company Entec chooses very carefully where we spend our cap' ex' budget, but this was a straight forward decision. The Sharpy has proved a world beater since its launch; we expect nothing less from the Shar

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"My aim with this event is to support the atmosphere, and what is going on musically, without overpowering or distracting people," White explained of his lighting design. "There are moments that need to be like a rock show, with huge dramatic cues and changes; but then also times for a lot of restraint, and subtle changes to enhance what is happening on stage and in the crowd."

For one of the more dramatic aspects of the show, a large 25ft cross was placed as the centrepiece of the rig, whereas in the pas

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Making sure that the stage dynamics lived up to the performance were local production company E2Tech. Among the FX used were 24 of PR Lighting's new XLED 1037 moving heads with zoom.

Characterised by the use of 37 x 10 Watt RGBW LEDs (containing four colours in one), one of its outstanding features is its wide linear zoom, with variable beam angle. It was deployed on this show with 26° beam angle.

The lights were flown down specifically for the event - purchased by E2Tech from Modern Stage Service, PR Lighting's Indian distributors.

E2Tech owner, Jasjeet Singh comments: "We have been using PR fixtures for the last four years and are very happy both with

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President of GLP Inc., Mark Ravenhill said, "Since we started our US operations in 2009, we have been endeavouring to support more and more of the valuable associations within our industry, and we are very proud that we can now call ourselves members of USITT."

USITT is a not-for-profit Corporation and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes.

Carl Wake, Technical Director of GLP Inc. added, "We are very excited about working with, and supporting the organisation and in particular its student membership in any way that we can. Having done many years of product and application training through my career, I see some exciting opportunities ahead."

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Pernette says: "Jacques was in charge of the lighting of a documentary for the Arte TV channel. He showed a lot of interest in the LED fixtures which we were demonstrating; he could see the fixtures' potential, and saw that they had a much better output than their regular RGB counterparts."

As a man who professes himself artistically committed to improving the lighting in TV studios, Audrain is among those who believed in LED from its early days in entertainment technology; his faith in the technology was confirmed with the launch of ETC Selador, and its seven colour mixing system.

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