UK - Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean's Dancing on Ice: The Live Tour is a nationwide tour following on from the successful series of Dancing on Ice which was broadcast on ITV1.Durham Marenghi designed the lighting for the tour using two grandMA full-size and four MA NSPs. The idea was to emulate the TV show on a grander scale whilst making everything visible and attractive to an arena audience.

The grandMA is the console of choice for programmer Tim Routledge who comments, "With both a video and lighting element, certain parts were programmed simultaneously using both consoles networked together. Even a last minute request to drive some monitor software over Art-Net was not a problem and easily integrated into the show."

The lighting rig includes 56 x Vari*Lite VL3500Q wash, 34 x Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 1200, 20 x Clay Paky Alpha Beam 300, 20 x Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 300 and 12 x Clay Paky Alpha Profile 1200. Lighting equipment was provided by PRG and XL Video. Andy Mitchinson was the crew chief.

(Jim Evans)


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