Rigging / Staging

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Steel wire rope is fed into the pulley as normal. The pulley's sheave is split in two and an electrical signal causes the two halves to move apart on demand, enabling the rope to drop through.

Ted Moore, director of rental services at Stage Technologiescomments, "For a flight out over the auditorium you need to rig two winches. In the original production of Mary Poppins, when Mary flew out over the audience in the finale, the second rope was static and taped to the side of the proscenium with a bit of gaffa tape.

"Before the flying took place, a stagehand had to cli

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Gradav's Graham Threader says "We have been surprised at the genuine interest shown in the new Dirty Rigger gloves & accessories range and are delighted at the level of sales. Feedback has been positive, with all those that we have spoken to very happy to find gloves that looked so well suited to their needs, turned out to so good in practice."

(Jim Evans)

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Guy Kendall, head of electronic systems at the National was responsible for finding a solution. The brief was simple: provide a new control system for the three lifts and the main stage wagon to enable synchronous motion.

"Once we had the brief from the designer we knew that the existing systems could not provide the functionality required,' explains Kendall. "So we contacted Stage Technologies with a seemingly impossible challenge. They had to

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The Radio Controlled Power Pack consists of a radio controlled socket and a rechargeable battery, enabling completely wireless control over any 24V appliance plugged into the socket. Other voltage outputs are available to order.

The Radio DMX Bridge Receiver eliminates the need for DMX cables when controlling any DMX enabled device. The transmitter and receiver form a wireless bridge between any wired DMX outlet and the DMX input to the device. The only requirement at the device is a mains socket or a battery to power

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"We purchased the Cryo-Fogs to replace our previous machines, which were becoming expensive to maintain and keep in peak operating condition," says ENB's Dave Richardson. "We had seen Look's machines on the White Light stand at PLASA last year, were impressed with their performance and with the price; we've now switched over to using them entirely."

Cryo-Fog consists of a fog generator, a fan and a cooling chamber plus space for a five litre fluid container all built into a single, compact flightcase. Cryo-Fog uses liquid CO2 to cool the incoming smoke from the machine, ensuring that no smoke is emit

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Smoke Factory UK celebrates its first birthday at PLASA this year as they launched at PLASA 2009 as an exclusive distributor in the UK for the German made Smoke Factory range of Fog and Haze machines.

Smoke Factory UK hold stocks of spares and fluids and spare parts in its London warehouse for immediate despatch to any UK address.

(Jim Evans)

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J. R. Clancy has supplied 20 PowerLift automated hoists - 12 fixed speed hoists for electrics, borders, legs, scrim, teaser and tormentor, and the Wenger Diva acoustical shell; and eight variable speed hoists for moving scenery. A single counterweight lineset will be used to raise and lower the house curtain.

The SceneControl 500 will control all 20 automated linesets.Designed by Clancy's in-house team of rigging professionals, this intuitive touch-screen system shows operators a 3D representation of the stage and the scenery hanging on each batten. Operators can set simple or elaborate cue

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The courses are aimed at students of technical theatre, technical professionals who wish to expand their skills into automation and automation operators who would like to familiarise themselves with eChameleon techniques and the very latest in operating software.

Course 1, Introduction to Automation and the eChameleon Suite, is designed for beginners. The programme offers attendees a basic understanding of automation use and best practice, an understanding of terminology and architecture of automation systems, a basic understanding of eChameleon features and functionality, and an understanding of health and safety, as applied to stage automation.

Course 2, eChameleon Suite Plotting and Programming

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This distribution and partnership agreement offers customers a complete project solution. Hoist UK can integrate products from each partner's expertise and equipment through a single dealer source. The result is a complete project solution, minimizing customers' need to select and manage many different suppliers.

"The Best of All Worlds partnership offered by Hoist UK gives customers the opportunity to find products from industry brand leaders that are seamlessly designed, conceived, manufactured and delivered with one call," said Tony Dickson at Hoist UK.

J. R. Clancy designs and manufactures off-the-shelf and custom automated and manual rigging systems, heat resistant borders, fire curtains and

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The team provided staging, banners, stage management, lighting and sound production on both from 30 July to 1 August for the festival's main stage, which saw bands such as Athlete perform to crowds in excess of 1,500.

The festival was first held in 2005 and has continued to grow each year, with the drpgroup coming on board to achieve a new level of technical production in 2010. The drptechnicalservices team erected the stage, including banners, lighting and all audio equipment before the festival opened.

Ian Ruhback, senior show technician, commented, "It was a great to be able to

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"Regardless of the project, Tomcat is committed to providing innovative products and innovative solutions to serve the challenging needs of our customers, and to make that happen we make sure we have the best people on board" said Stefano Rossellini, CEO.

"We are very excited to have Fernando on Tomcat's team and are confident in his leadership. He is a professional with valuable knowledge of supply chain, lean warehousing, stamping operations, welding operations, assembly operations, and human resources."

(Jim Evans)

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Up to eight Awards for Innovation are available each year, as well as a special Environmental Award for a product which the judges feel contributes to the industry's quest for energy efficiency and sustainability.

This year, for the first time, all nominees will have the opportunity to present their products live to a panel of expert judges, during the Sunday of the show, on a specially-built stage on the Innovation Gallery itself, inside Earls Court 2.

The presentations and subsequent Q&A opportunities will be filmed and the winning presentations repeated on the PLASA Show's central LED screen during the Tuesday and Wednesday of the show, as well as

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Digital communications allow multiple controllers to be daisy-chained together, eliminating the need for bulky multicore cables. Self-healing emergency stop connections remove the requirement for shorting plugs, and monitoring of the hoist's status means that information about hoist presence and the state of the limits can be displayed to the user, and acted upon immediately to provide Group Halting if limits are hit whilst moving, says the company.

The new website goes live on 12 September, the first day of the show, and has been built from the ground-up with both specifiers and end users in mind.

Easy to navigate product pages and an enlarged

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Cuelux is a cost-effective DMX512 lighting controller for intelligent, conventional and LED lighting, says the company. It offers a darkened and touch screen optimized graphical user interface, industry-standardised cuelist system, iPhone remote control and can be used in 10 different languages. Cuelux has Plug&Play support for MIDI control surfaces that include fader wings, motorized faders and button stations.

With the new software release for Linux, Cuelux is now a multi-platform lighting software package; Cuelux was already available on Mac OSX and MS Windows (with both 32 bit and 64 bit drivers available). The advantage of a multi-platform system is that every user can choose his own preferred operating system in which he feels technically comfortable and in the case of Linux, ev

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BlueBox is billed as the industry's first PC-based intelligent, integrated DMX and RDM controller software. Built from the ground-up specifically for controlling large rigs of RDM enabled products, the BlueBox RDM controller allows users to search for any RDM enabled product in a DMX/RDM Network, automatically patch the fixture, and control the fixture, as well as receive status updates on the fixture and configure settings such as fixture mode, lamp on/off and more. This makes the BlueBox RDM controller suitable for quick setup and programming of corporate and live event rigs and is ideal for autonomous monitoring of large scale lighting installations in architectural environments, says the company.

The BlueBox RDM controller is built wi

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Sound console manufacturer DiGiCo's recently launched their SD9 Red Snapper digital console - which is housed in its default 5 Star flight case that will be highlighted on Stand 1-L36.

Also on display will be another set of cases, designed and manufactured specifically for Martin Audio's new MLA (Multi-Cellular Loudspeaker Array) System.

A selection of CNC-routed foam inserts will also be present, in the form of a professional tool case. This demonstrates 5 Star's flexible and dynamic machining capabilities - which also enhance the quick turnarounds and quality for which 5 Star is renowned - using three Thermwood CNC systems, says the company.

5 Star's standard ranges will include the Arena - cost effective general purpos

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Featuring large user-friendly buttons, faders and data wheels, MIDIcon has the look and feel of a conventional light board. Each time you manipulate one of its controls, it sends signals to your software via standard MIDI messages, allowing you to trigger scenes and play back shows directly from its console-style panel, without requiring the use of a computer mouse, says the company.

To make things even easier, Elation has built templates for Midicon right into the CompuShow and Emulation software programmes. This means there's no need for the user to configure MIDIcon. Functions are already pre-assigned to the various but

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Since its inception in 1982, the Inc. 5000 has become one of the most respected indicators of entrepreneurial success among America's privately held companies.

The list ranks companies by percentage of overall revenue growth over a three-year period. In addition, companies that make the list are ranked by industry, metro area, revenue, and number of employees. J. R. Clancy enters the list at #3891.

"Becoming an Inc. 5000 company is a solid indication that our corporate strategy is working," said Mike Murphy, J. R. Clancy president. "First, we became an ISO 9001-registered company and changed our processes dramatically to do business more effectively. At the same time, we

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The four shows took place at Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire, Exeter's Escot Park; Peterborough Embankment and Quex Park.

The first show was part of the Forestry Commission's annual series of live concerts, for which AP's contract for safety and stewarding was recently renewed for a further three years, while the latter three shows were promoted by Beat- up- music, with whom AP also has a long working relationship.

"JLS are the current number one boy band and we're aware that there can be some hysteria from the audience," says AP national sales manager John Phillips. "But we always do extensive planning for any event, we had numerous advisory group meetings with all interested parties and we were 100% confident that we coul

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The need to provide spectators with intelligible live commentary and information on the intermediate placing and times of the various teams and athletes, as well as music before, during, and after the competition, meant that the quality of the sound reinforcement was of crucial importance to the

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The Skirt/Header Clamp is for creating an adjustable screen surround. Utilising two clamps, a screen surround can be created in just about any size, 16:9, 4:3, etc. - up to 16ft wide.

See Drape Kings at PLASA 2010 on stand 2-SP12.

Register here for your visit the PLASA Show.

(Jim Evans)

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The design of Toad Hall, which was the brainchild of designers Lydia Denno and Catherine Chapman, necessitated the transformation of the traditional proscenium arch configuration into an in-the-round space. To achieve this, all of the seating was stripped out from the stalls, and Litestru

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MR2 8x6m is the latest roofing product from Milos, which is now available as part of their MR2 range of roofing systems. MR2 8x6m meets the demand for a smaller, heavy duty stage for those projects requiring compact roofs with greater weight loadings. It can cover 48sq.m and is designed for clients wanting a structure that can take more weight than the popular MR1 series, bit not needing anything as substantial in size as the MR3, MR4 or MR5 series.

The roof is supported by Milos MT1 towers and the frame constructed out of M290V Quatro trussing beams. All the wires required for wind stabilization are part of the standard package supplied with Milos roofing systems. A tough PVC canopy is available in a wide variety of colors, and the roof comes with all certifications and an