Season eight, titled America's Best Dance Crew All-Stars: Road to the VMAs pitted six all-star dance crews against each other - including five previous champions - with the stage at Warner Brothers Studio 19 in Los Angeles the site of weekly dance offs for the $100,000 grand prize.
"They didn't have a huge budget and I had little time to prep before each show so I had to really think through every light choice in order to get the most out of them," Victor Fable stated of his fixture selection, which included Elation Platinum SBX hybrid moving heads, Sniper 2R multi-effect lights, Pixel Bar LED strip lights, Colour 5 Profile ellipsoidal spots and Protron 3K LED strobe. "When they told me they wanted the show to look different than the other reality dance shows out there, I immediately thought of the Elation Sniper," he stated.
ABDC acts are fuelled by prodigious amounts of EDM and hip hop music and by the very nature of the genre involve a lot of movement. That's an environment where the Sniper excels. "It's the centrepiece of the centre stage and the cornerstone of the lighting design," Victor said. "It's so quick; it's great for fast bump accents and fits in with the high energy level of the show. I like to drop the prism in which looks just huge when you've got 60 fixtures."
(Jim Evans)
