As the cornerstone of its 50th Anniversary Season, the Orlando Ballet commissioned a spectacular new production of The Nutcracker, one of the world’s most popular and most performed ballets, which debuted last December.

Back in the 1930’s, a newspaper reporter asked the well-known bank robber, Willie Sutton why he robbed banks. Sutton was said to have replied, “because that’s where the money is”. Matthieu Larivee and the team at Luz Studio had no such nefarious purpose in mind when they designed Jason Aldean’s 24-city Highway Desperado tour.

Starting strong is great… but what truly stays in people’s minds is a powerful finale. Every performer knows it, and so does the creative team behind the popular Alton Towers resort. That’s why every November they close the season with a bang, staging a fireworks spectacular accompanied by a dazzling light and laser show.

The Rock For People music festival celebrated its 30th anniversary in grand style with an impressive five-day event. It featured a lineup of top-tier artists and an expanded capacity for 50,000 people, successfully bringing together a fully engaged audience at the Park 360 venue in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.

Seeing Prospa for the first time, fans are struck by their musical talent. The Leeds-based duo masterfully blends riffs, breakbeat rhythms, and analog synthesizer sounds, creating a fluid and immersive experience that one critic compared to “da Vinci painting with light on a canvas”.

Currently on tour to promote their second album Fuego, Xeria incorporates the versatility of LightShark to easily adapt their own show to venues of different sizes.

Design group Lightswitch first turned to Elation Professional’s Fuze Wash 575™ LED white light luminaire in 2017 and again utilized the auto show-optimized moving head to light three top auto manufacturer booths at the 2019 edition of the LA Auto Show.

Litecom has made a massive investment in new Robe moving lights. The company is based in Copenhagen and has a branch in Stockholm, Sweden, and works extensively across the two countries and throughout Scandinavia.

Popular Philadelphia-based jam band Lotus evolved their own distinctive “jambatronica” sound and style and brought this to the instrumental bedrock of the jam genre. In an exhilarating rave-tastic collage of electronica, hip hop, dubstep and multiple other genres, they have been inspired by artists like The Orb, Aphex Twin and many others.

For composer David Malloy, War and Peace is, above all, a grand collective celebration of life. Yet, as often happens with Tolstoy’s work, the novel also offers an intimate counterpoint. Malloy admires it because, alongside its sweeping epic panorama, it captures the most personal moments and the subtle interactions between two human beings.

Coincidiendo con la publicación del ranking de DJ Magazine de los mejores 100 clubes del mundo, la gira internacional de la revista-productora se ha celebrado con una serie de espectáculos inéditos que han sido retransmitidos en directo desde algunos de los locales más emblemáticos del mundo.

Zodiac es un nuevo musical producido por Peet Nieuwenhuijsen, dirigido por William Spaaij y puesto en escena en el Koepelgevangenis, una antigua prisión de Breda (Holanda), que acoge y ambienta esta divertida obra ambientada en el año 2031 y que habla sobre varias cuestiones humanas, políticas y medioambientales.

AV equipment hire company Expression Events has made a major investment in Luxibel’s powerful B PAR180RGBW fixtures for its range of projects, including festivals, corporate and architectural.

M&S Showtechniek is a lively, ambitious and fast-growing full production – lighting, rigging, audio and video – and rental company based in Amersfoort, The Netherlands, run by two hard working directors, Pim Muller and Jeroen van der Stap, who are both involved hands-on in the day to day running of all operations.

GLP reports increased demand during the summer and autumn for its skytracker MAD MAXX, a large-format LED luminaire designed to recreate the effect of the xenon searchlights of 3 kW and 7 kW historically used in large-scale shows and events.

The monolith rises staggering 369 meters high. Located on Küçük Çamlıca, small Çamlıca hill, it still towers 584 meters above sea level, making it the tallest building in Istanbul and the highest tower in Europe. Famous architect Melike Altınışıkspearheaded the multi-year project.

Esta espectacular torre de 369 metros de altura puede vislumbrarse fácilmente sobre Küçük Çamlıca, la pequeña colina de Çamlıca. Su tamaño la lleva a ser el edificio más alto de Estambul y la torre más alta de Europa. Su construcción fue coordinada por el famoso arquitecto Melike Altınışık, y duró varios años.

Magic, they say, is built on defying perception. How true! Especially in Las Vegas, the desert oasis that has been known to bend reality in unimaginable directions.

The Ehrlich Brothers have been delighting a wide audience with their spectacular live shows for over a decade. Their new production, Diamonds, premiered in mid-November in Dortmund’s Westfalenhalle before visiting the largest arenas in Germany, where they have been presenting the best of their most popular illusions.

From subtle ambience to striking beam definition, Elation introduces the Magma Prime Tour, a powerful high-performance fazer designed to shape the atmosphere and bring aerial effects and dynamic lighting to life.