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This was the debut event for Sensation in South Africa and the staging of it brought about quite a few "firsts" for technical supplier, Gearhouse SA, as well.

Gearhouse was contracted to G and G Productions, through technical consultants Strike Productions and worked hand in hand with technical production manager, Dave Tudor and Mushroom Productions, who handled the overall local production of the event. Project manager Anthony Banks, handled the onsite co-ordination of Gearhouse's technical elements with the assistance of Madelein

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These were selected to be right at the centre of the lighting action for both shows, which required very different approaches and lighting treatments, showing off the versatility of the fixtures.

The DTS Nick 600 LED Wash and Jack Spot luminaires were chosen for their small size, brightness, low power and feature-packed capabilities.

On the Jack, Lambert comments, "This is extremely versatile as you can expand the iris and it becomes a wash," while on the Nick, he says, "It's a really powerful LED wash fixture, fast, with an excellent zoom and very light in weight - so it ticks a lot of boxes."

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It's also the first culture centre in Belgium to invest in Robe's Actor 6 range of LED luminaires, with 32 fixtures newly purchased from Benelux distributor, Controllux.

The theatre has two auditoriums, with 400 seats and 200 seats respectively, plus several studios and conference rooms which are frequently used for arts-related workshops, lectures, talks and telecasts.

The sale of the Robes was handled for Controllux by theatre specialist Jeff de Clerck, who comments, "The theatre wanted a flexible power-and-cost-saving soluti

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The fixtures - which include 95 of Robe's new Robin Pointes, together with 52 x LEDWash 600s, 40 x LEDWash 300s, 12 x LEDWash 1200s, and 50 x MMX Spots - were delivered by Robe's Mexican distributor Vari Internacional - and constitute the biggest sale yet of Robe fixtures to Mexico.

Robe's sales director Harry von den Stemmen, regional sales manager for Latin America Guillermo Traverso and Bram de Clerck from Benelux distributor Controllux all played key roles in making the deal happen, demonstrating great international teamwork and reinforcing the excellent service for which Robe is renowned.

Procolor's CEO Javier Barba had bee

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Meanwhile, the nearby Koninklijk Ballet van Vlaanderen (Royal Ballet Flanders) in Antwerp, with which De Vlaamse Opera is soon set to merge, also began to look for a new lighting desk.

De Vlaamse Opera stages seven productions each season, as well as concerts and recitals in two theatres, (one in Antwerp, one 40 minutes away in Ghent), which also host smaller external productions and ballet performances, with lighting operated by a number of different people with varying specialisms.

Says Koen Ceulemans, account manager at ETC

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The all-white BFC Showspace in Somerset House was designed by Bacchus - Gray is one of their regular collaborators - and this year he took advantage of the structure being a wider double apex tensile structure, which increased the space by at least 50% on previous years.

The interior was designed around two near identical spaces which could be either joined to make one massive U-shaped catwalk environment, or each side could be run individually for more intimate showcases.

The lighting rig in both halves of the room was duplicated, with one central HUD truss - chosen for

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Not only does the Satura Spot LED Pro consume half as much energy as comparably bright traditional moving head spots, its long-life LED engine lasts on average 80 times longer than a typical 575-watt discharge lamp.

Eric Loader, Elation Professional's director of sales, comm. Ents, "The Satura Spot LED Pro is a totally breakthrough fixture, because its LED engine truly delivers enough output colour-to-colour to compete with discharge fixtures that use double the power.

"This long-awaited technology is finally here - LED engines are now bright enough to where they can start to replace traditional discharge spot

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The LED Stair was specified by the show's designer Patrick Doherty for the launch event, which was staged at Elstree Studios, Borehamwood UK.

The 11th edition of the massively popular series has moved to a new much larger home at Elstree, and for this, Doherty has again specified S+H's Pea-light starcloth.

For the launch event, Doherty wanted something visually different and spectacular, and the idea of constructing a functional and practical set piece - that also came alive with kinetic motion, energizing the presentation space - ticked all his boxes.

S+H's robustly engineered LED stair product is made up of 122 x 244 mm panels with a high resolution pitch of 7.6 mm, wi

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The Blakite speaker range was designed by Miltec and is manufactured in the UK using custom drivers supplied by Fane. All seven models are made from birch plywod The range consists of three full range speakers and four subs. The three tops have 8", 10" and 12" drivers with 1.7" compression drivers and are finished in high quality black or white paint.. The sound is very clean and detailed, making them suitable for conference and theatre use as well as schools, live music and clubs. Features include a 35 degree wedge angle, optional rubber feet, flying points, PowerDrive bracket mounting points and pole sockets.

The subs are all direct radiating and available in 12",15", 2x

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"We are pleased to be part of the exciting changes as PLASA moves to its new venue at London ExCel," says Robert Juliat MD, François Juliat. "This will be the first exhibition for us with our new local partner, Ambersphere Solutions, which became our exclusive distributor for the UK this summer, and we are looking forward to an invigorating show."

Robert Juliat will be introducing a new motorized yoke as an accessory for its range of Fresnel lanterns. "We have introduced the motorized yoke in response to the huge number of requests we receive from our customers in the theatre world," says sales director, Claus Spreyer. "This option will be of great assistanc

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This architectural marvel, situated on the main highway, gives an insight into the life and teachings of the ninth Guru of the Sikhs and the illumination has been described as "world class".

Modern Stage Service (MSS) - PR Lighting's Indian distributor - was brought in as a result of the company's long association with Mr. Sabharwal, and Wadhwa specified 16 XR300 Beam and 12 PR-8802's. Mounted on both the ground and the structure itself, they are triggered into action daily after dark from an Avolites Titan Mobile in conjunction with a Dataton Wat

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With its striking architecture, the Sagrada Familia is a particularly sensitive structure. Considerable care had to be taken with the installation, so the church's custodians contacted Gaplasa, having heard of their success with a number of other sensitive installations in the area, including those at Barcelona Cathedral and Basilica de Montserrat.

"Along with a number of other companies, we were invited to look at how the church's problems could be solved," says Gaplasa's Óscar Valero. "Ultimately, the project we proposed was deemed the best so

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Geiger is one of the first LDs in the U.S. to use the MAC Viper Quadray, Viper AirFX and Viper Profiles on the same stage. "The time it took from when we received the fixtures until they were up in the rig was literally only a few minutes," Geiger says. "The Vipers look fantastic and work really well on this high-energy club show. I use other lights on tour and it's such a relief to have Vipers because of the amazing gobos and optics. They're some of the best I've seen."

Geiger became familiar with the new family of luminaires through production house C

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New York-state based Weeks has worked for Yes for two years. The creative starting point for this tour was based on a design first created in spring 2012, which presented a starker and more scaled back stage set up than in the past, with no scenic element, and just an upstage video screen.

The idea was to supplement the locally supplied lighting rigs at each venue with a compliment of 'specials' which included 15 x LEDWash 600s.

The venues were a mix of small to large theatres, casinos and some amphitheatres, so they needed something that would adapt and work in all of these spa

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Elidy, the world's first LED matrix fixture capable of projecting volumetric graphics, first came to the attention of the industry when it was launched at PLASA 2012 and went on to win a coveted Etoile du SIEL the following year.

Since then Elidy has taken the world of live performance by storm. This year alone has seen it used to stunning effect on tour with no less than Pink, Soundgarden, Queens of the Stone Age, Bon Jovi, One Direction, Rammstein, Depeche Mode, Bruno Mars and the Pet Shop Boys, television shows including The X Factor, The Voice, and Yves Saint Laurent Fashion Show.

Most recently Elidy has hit the headlines with its spectacular

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Kathleen Hartnett, product line director for Luxeon Emitters notes, "Our LED is especially competitive when it's driven harder. For instance, at 1 Ampere, a flux of more than 300 lm at an efficacy of 102 lm/W at 85?C is achieved in neutral white at 4000K. The high efficacy at high drive current of the LUXEON Q emitter is achieved as a result of the industry leading wall plug and conversion efficiency of Philips Lumileds next-generation CSP architecture."

The Luxeon Q takes advantage of a fully develope

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dbn's project manager Nick Buckley oversaw the operation to light the main stage, which was headlined by I Am Kloot, Richard Hawley and Sinead O'Connor and enjoyed by 6500 people across the weekend. dbn also provided lighting and effects kit for two smaller stages.

The Main Stage lighting design was based on last year's very successful format and the need to accommodate multiple genres of music and performance as well as presenting a set up that was straightforward, flexible and versatile enough for any visiting LDs to work with.

The stage was slightly different this year -

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GLP's Udo Künzler and Mark Ravenhill have supplied the college with six Impression90 LED moving heads on a long term loan. The units have been installed in the college's unique lighting training and research laboratories, and are available to the lighting design students for projects as well as to augment their designs for a range of innovative lighting projects.

Rose Bruford and GLP are collaborating on developing a close partnership, working together to provide the best possible training to students and professionals. This new partnership has been made possible by lighting designer Patrick Woodroffe, who is an Honorary Fellow of th

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Spanning across most of 2013, the Locked & Reloaded Tour is an action-packed event featuring two of country music's hottest artists; and for this Reade needs a powerful, reliable and rock solid system to control the show.

First introduced to the Jands Vista platform in 2008, Reade was immediately impressed with its simple, powerful operation - quickly adopting the technology as his preferred choice of control. Since then Chris has purchased his own Vista T2, S1 and M1 consoles, and hasn't looked back since!

Reade's lighting design perfectly complements the set design by Bruce Rodgers of Tribe Inc, which is both large and ambitious - i

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Robe and LumenRadio have been working closely for a long period of time. With more and more customers requiring a trustworthy wireless DMX/RDM system to use alongside the Robin products in the Czech and Slovakian markets, the new cooperation was a natural step.

Robe's sales manager for Czech Republic and Slovak Republic, Petr Kolmacka says, "Since we offer LumenRadio's OEM modules in most of the Robin fixtures, customers are asking for the boxed products as well. We have already received requirements for LumenRadio demo systems from some of the largest theatres and TV studios in the area.

"One of the largest theatres in the Czech Republic, the Jiri Myron Theatre (the Moravian-Silesian Nati

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Established to celebrate outstanding achievements in British lighting design in the sectors of TV, Theatre and Concert Touring and Events, the awards are voted on by panels of professional reviewers who work in each of the specific sectors.

"It's been the most popular Knight of Illumination awards to date with an unprecedented number of submissions across the categories Theatre, Television and Concert Touring and Events," says KOI Co-ordinator Durham Marenghi. "This year KOI organisers have been inundated with submissions of stunning lighting design work, all of which deserve the highest recognition for their creativity."

So without further ado, and in alphabetical order, the following are the shortlists for each cat

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The PLASA Awards for Innovation recognise products that advance the industry by demonstrating a new style of thinking, improving technical practice or taking a key step forward in terms of safety. All successfully vetted products are judged against one another on the strength of their innovation alone.

Companies and products in the running include:

• Altman Lighting (STAND F40) - UV LED Spectra CYC - A 100W cyclorama/wall wash lumina

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The daylight balanced Sola 12 and tungsten balanced Inca 12 are designed for lighting designers and cinematographers seeking alternative to traditional 2K incandescent Fresnels. The new fixtures encapsulate energy efficiency and outstanding quality of illumination, says the company.

"The revolutionary Sola 12 and Inca 12 have begun shipping to customers worldwide and have already been exceeding customer expectations," says Chris Marchitelli, vice president global marketing, Litepanels. "This is our first time exhibiting at PLASA and the first time we will be demonstrating the final production optimised fixtures since their launch. This show provides us with an excellent opp

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What makes the difference is the lighting designer, the artist who uses light as a creative tool and plays with the rhythm of the music or the atmosphere of a theatre piece. For the lighting designer, projectors are like the brushes for a painter and his art is to shape the light, adapting it to the needs of each show.

Patrick Woodroffe is one of the most famous lighting designers in the world since many years and shines with his art the most famous artists, the stars of the