French turntable group C2C recently performed in Dijon, lit by 12 CHAUVET Professional Nexus 4×4 pixel-mapping fixtures. The lights were mostly used as audience blinders and were the most powerful on stage, designed by Cyssous and Cyril Prat. C2C won the Disco Mix Club World Team DJ Championship four years in a row, 2003–2006, and also won the ITF team championship in 2006.
CHAUVET Professional Legend 300E Beam moving yokes light one of the stages at Ultra Music Festival in Miami, this year concentrating the biggest names in the EDM world such as Tiësto, Deadmau5, Kaskade, Swedish House Mafia and more.
The popular Troubadour Club in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, entertains crowds with talented performers and quality lighting provided by Chauvet. Artists and bands such as Elton John, Guns’n’roses, No Doubt, Metallica and more started their careers at the Troubadour. Chauvet lights include six CHAUVET Professional Legend 412 pixel-mapping moving yokes, four COLORado Batten 72 Tour linear lights, four Q-Spot 560-LED moving spots, four COLORado Zoom Tour wash lights and more.
The Groove Cruise experience got hotter with the addition of 162 CHAUVET Professional MVP 18 video panels, used at the beach, on the pool deck and at the Stardust Theater, on the Norwegian Sky ship of Norwegian Cruise Line. Operations Manager for Advanced Concert Productions Collyns Stenzel specified the gear and designed all stages, while Production manager Tim Cabral ran the production coordination. Jason Buekema is the person behind The Groove Cruise, created for dance music aficionados and to bring together the world’s best dance music artists.
About 200 CHAUVET Professional fixtures from the COLORado series of wash lights brighten up the elaborate outdoor set of “Wipeout” reality game show. Contestants have to compete in what is billed as the world’s largest obstacle course, which is now lit by 100 COLORado 1-Tri IP lights and 86 COLORado 1-Quad IP and COLORado 1-Quad Tour fixtures.
Chauvet displayed a variety of LED fixtures with French distributor Algam at the SIEL trade show in Paris, Feb. 4-6. CHAUVET Professional lights included six Legend 230 SR Beam moving yokes on center circle trussing, 16 PVP S5 high-definition video panels on each sides of the center round trussing, 18 MVP 12 video panels with three screens of different lengths handing on each side of the stand, four Q-Wash 436Z-LED and six Q-Wash 560Z-LED wash lights, six Legend 412 pixel-mapping moving yokes, Ovation E-190WW and Ovation F-165WW theatrical fixtures, COLORdash Par-Quad 7, COLORado 4 IP linear wash light, COLORado Zoom WW Tour, COLORado 1-Quad Tour, COLORado 1 Tour and COLORado 2 Tour fixtures.
CHAUVET Professional COLORado Zoom Tour wash lights are part of an upgrade in the new lecture theatre at the Royal Society of Medicine in London, UK. Specified and installed by Northern Lights lighting company, six COLORado Zoom Tour fixtures are used as backlights on stage. “We love the control we have over the LEDs, especially being able to change color without fixing gels and to create color washes at a moment’s notice for our clients,” said Kevin McLoughlin, Audio Visual Manager at the Royal Society of Medicine. “Any saving in energy costs is always a positive thing, when we are endeavoring to make the building as environmentally friendly as possible. And although not huge, is definitely a step in the right direction. We do aim to upgrade our lighting in other lecture theatres over the next couple of years.”
Graduates at the University of Derby, in the U.K., partied under the light of 42 CHAUVET Professional fixtures. Thirty MVP 12 high-resolution video panels, six Legend 412 pixel-mapping moving yokes and six Q-Wash 560Z-LED wash lights, all owned by the university, created a fiery atmosphere and kept the party going all night long.
CHAUVET Professional demoed fixtures from the Ovation line of theatrical luminaires and from the COLORado series of wash lights at the eighth annual Stage Lighting Super Saturday seminar, presented by Sonny Sonnenfeld and Scott C. Parker Jan. 26, in New York City. Stage Lighting Designers Ken Billington and Richard Pilbrow made interesting and Illuminating presentations that engaged the audience.
Fixtures from Chauvet’s Professional, DJ and TRUSST brand of trussing completed the exciting Godskitchen Christmas Party at the HMV Institute, in Birmingham, U.K. Twelve CHAUVET Professional Legend 412 pixel-mapping moving yokes worked for amazing effects from a triangular-shaped trussing system, built of four 3-meter and two 1-meter pieces of truss from TRUSST. SJ Grevett from DMX Productions of Birmingham also specified 12 CHAUVET DJ COLORband PiX eye-candy linear fixtures, which he placed on the DJ console.
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