Peumans has designed lighting for the high energy ice extravaganza produced by Netherlands-based Stage Entertainment Touring Productions since 2005, and so this is now his seventh edition of the show.
The Robe fixtures - along with the rest of the lighting equipment - are being supplied by Belgian based rental company Phlippo Showlights MV.
Peumans has used Robe products before on some of his work, but this is the first time he has integrated such a large number of Robe fixtures into one of his creations, and the first time he has used the popular LEDWash 600.
Most of the Holiday on Ice tours will have a lifespan of three-five years, and so he was looking to replace a number of discharge fixtures with LED washes for several reasons, including their more sustained long-term luminosity, and also because they require less on-going maintenance. He also needed fixtures with a bright output ... and that's where the Robin 600 LEDWashes entered the creative equation.
The light weight and small size of the fixtures was also a consideration - an increasing important parameter for any touring production that can save on many costings.
Before making his decision on which LED wash lights to add to the plot, Peumans visited the Robe factory and undertook a thorough testing session. Another really important factor was that the fixtures could produce a good quality white, and when he saw then in action - and close up - at Robe, he soon realised that this was an area in which they excelled.
Of the 62 fixtures, 38 are in the air on the overhead trusses and 24 are on the floor, ten of these rigged to a moving bridge that tracks along the ice during the show. The overheads are used to wash the ice while the bridge lights either back lighting the dancers on the ice or highlighting them whilst performing on the bridge. "They are extremely flexible and very reliable," he comments.
(Jim Evans)
