Robe moving lights – 20 x BMFL Blades and 32 x Pointes – have been specified and installed in a brand new lighting installation at Boston’s TD Garden Arena by New Hampshire, U.S.A. based Port Lighting Systems. The project was managed for Port Lighting by lead designer, Ron Kuszmar. The company’s successful working relationship as a technical supplier to the landmark multi-purpose venue … [Read more...]
All Robe for Scala & Kolacny Brothers
Kristof van Mensel is one of a new wave of highly original LDs from Benelux, and currently part of innovative design and programming collective, TCF bvba (The Creative Factory). He’s involved in a myriad of exciting lighting and visual projects that embrace multiple performance genres from hardstyle dance to choral! The eleven 20th anniversary concerts staged by Scala & Kolacny Brothers … [Read more...]
Robe BMFLs are a Key to Eurovision 2016
Nearly 100 Robe BMFLs – 88 x BMFL Blades and 6 x BMFL Spots – proved invaluable to Fredrik Jonsson’s lighting design for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest which was staged in the Globe Arena, Stockholm with a capacity live audience of around 10,000 plus an estimated 180 million television viewers worldwide. Nothing like a bit of pressure ... which Fredrik took in his stride, lighting his … [Read more...]
ELO Alone in the Universe with Robe BMFLs
Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) who blended the sounds, rhythms and riffs of contemporary rock and pop with classical arrangements to produce a unique sound that was massively popular in the 1970s and 80s … hit the road again for the first time in 27 years, led by singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and one of the original founding members, Jeff Lynne. With them were nearly 100 Robe … [Read more...]
Robe and De Groote Rappel
The garrison town of Leopoldsburg in Belgium was a perfect setting for the large scale promenade theatrical spectacle ‘De Groote Rappel’, directed by Luc Stevens and featuring a large community cast from the city telling the story of two world wars, with the final act played out in a quadrangle in front of a prominent army barracks. Lighting was designed by Michel Jacobs, a freelance LD … [Read more...]
