It’s panto time again in the UK… with the slapstick, craziness and innuendos flying as fast as a foam pie in the face… At Blackpool Grand this year, putting both beauty and some beast attitude into the show, lighting designer Andy Webb specified 81 x Robe fixtures - 98 per cent of them LED sources - for a brand-new version of the classic tale produced by UK Productions for the 2018-19 … [Read more...]

Lighting and visuals rental specialist HSL supplied lighting equipment to 32 high profile Qdos pantomime productions all over the UK for their 2018-19 season, together with a full rigging – truss and motors package – plus Kinesys automation for “Cinderella” at Glasgow’s SEC. Qdos has a reputation for producing fantastic pantos – action-packed with smart humour related to contemporary music and … [Read more...]

Superstar Dutch DJ Martin Garrix launched his new “ANIMA” live performance concept with two hi-energy, hi-profile nights at Amsterdam’s RAI with the five-day 2018 Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) festival and conference as the backdrop, an event drawing dance music, media and technology professionals and enthusiasts from worldwide to this vibrant city right at the hub of dance music … [Read more...]

Two hundred and fifty Astera battery powered, wirelessly controlled LED lighting fixtures made a spectacular impact in Frankfurt, Germany, lighting the iconic Paulskirche building for the 70th anniversary of Human Rights Day on 10th December 2018. Eugen Blersch and Benny Coppik of Frankfurt based AES Veranstaltungstechnik drove this project to light the landmark - originally a Lutheran Church … [Read more...]

As the worlds of humans and machines collide and the relationships between nature, technology and artificial intelligence become daily more inextricably intertwined … urban dance impresario Fredrik ‘Benke’ Rydman made this mutually dependent alliance the subject of his amazing “Varoffer” performance, which has just completed its run at Stockholm Kulturhuset Stadsteater in Sweden. Two radically … [Read more...]