As part of Berlin Fashion Week, the online fashion retailer ABOUT YOU staged a sensational mix of fashion, circus and entertainment in a Roncalli circus tent on 4th July. For one day, the ABOUT YOU Fashion Circus enchanted celebrities, the press and fashion enthusiasts alike.
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.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s timeless classic, Starlight Express, re-envisioned for the 21st century, has taken to the stage in the specially designed Starlight Auditorium at London’s state-of-the-art Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre.
Robe moving lights – ESPRITES, Spiiders, iSpiiders and iFORTE LTXs used as follow spots – all had great impact on the lighting and set designed by Simon Corder for Opera Hedeland’s La fanciulla del West (Girl of the Golden West) by Puccini, which is set in a ‘Gold Rush’ prospecting town in 19th century western USA.
After successfully completing the transition from conventional static lighting to versatile and dynamic LED fixtures from Elation Professional at the Rijswijkse Schouwburg Theater in Rijswijk, Netherlands, Ronald de Blecourt, stage technician, reflected on the results achieved.
UK-based lighting designer Phil Supple utilised 56 x Astera Tubes – 40 x Titan and eight each Hyperion and Helios – to illuminate 137 windows across 57 rooms at the George Heriot School in Edinburgh, Scotland, for Where to Begin, the opening event of the 2024 Edinburgh International Festival (EIF).
The Hordern Pavilion, often referred to as The Hordern, is one of Sydney's most iconic and historically significant landmark venues. Originally opened in 1924, it now regularly hosts live performances, dance parties, sports tournaments, trade shows, conferences, and a variety of other events.
On the first night of Wacken Open Air, German medieval rockers In Extremo took center stage on the Louder Stage. For this show at Wacken, the band’s lighting designer, Martin Heining, expanded his design by incorporating 12 GLP Creos lights, adding to the already impressive festival setup created by Jerry Appelt.
The Adele in Munich show was huge in every respect. Taking place on a fully bespoke, purpose-built stage in front of a 220m x 19m LED screen backdrop (a Guinness Book of World Records holder!) with a central thrust measuring 84m, the Adele Arena in Munich, Germany hosted approximately 80,000 fans each night for just 10 performances in August.
Critics who have seen previews of the upcoming remake of Alfred Zinnemann’s classic 1973 political thriller Day of the Jackal have universally praised it for its suspenseful tautness. According to them, viewers who tune in to this globally broadcast television series, which begins in November, will be on the edge of their seats throughout the entire show.
