Six CHAUVET Professional COLORado 1 IP wash fixtures light an outdoor city project in Indio, Calif. Provided and installed by ShowPro of Los Angeles, the lights drench in color the white metal structure named “Oculus Sol” (“Eye of the Sun”). The 22-foot-tall piece has trusses that resemble palm fronds and is large enough for people to walk and gather underneath.
The stage for Miss Venezuela Pageant got even spicier with the addition of 18 CHAUVET Professional fixtures, used as principal backlighting and downlighting by Lighting Designer Roberto Penso. Trying to find suitable lights to work around the low-height ceiling at Hotel Intercontinental in Caracas, Penso tested CHAUVET Professional Q-Wash 560Z-LED fixtures—provided by VLPS of Venezuela—and decided they were perfect for the show. “The colors and the brightness are spectacular,” Penso said. “They change colors very fast, have great saturation, and perform in sync all the time. The Q-Wash 560Z-LED moving yokes were the only lights in the show that didn’t fail.”
Chauvet fixtures lit the WaterFire public art installation in Kansas City, an event that combined water, light and music. In its sixth year, WaterFire featured a fire sculpture of 55 floating braziers on Brush Creek, which set the stage for live performances of jazz and blues, opera and chamber music, ballet and acrobatic dancers. Chauvet dealer S.E.C.T. provided the sound and lighting systems for the six performing arts stages that included: the main stage, three smaller stages and a gondola venue that ran along Brush Creek. Ten CHAUVET Professional COLORado Batten 72 Tour linear wash lights and five CHAUVET DJ SlimPAR Pro Tri fixtures lit the stages, while two CHAUVET DJ SlimPAR Pro RGBA wash lights and one CHAUVET DJ Freedom Par wireless wash fixture lit the gondola. More than 35,000 spectators attended the event. Here are some cool shots:
Royal Shakespeare Company, located in Stratford-Upon-Avon, U.K., refurbished its auditorium of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Upon doing so, it incorporated 18 CHAUVET Professional COLORdash Accent wash lights, supplied by Stage Electrics.
“Lighting Designer Rick Fisher incorporated [the fixtures] into his design for “Merchant of Venice”, [and] RSC Lighting purchased and fitted them during the production period,” said Simon Bayliss, assistant head of lighting, Royal Shakespeare Company.
Lighting Designer for Foster the People Zach Matusow talks one-on-one with our own John Dunn, business development manager for the west coast of the U.S. We previously shared some behind-the-scenes photos of the in-progress interview and facility tour. While Matusow was at Chauvet HQ, our CHAUVET Professional product development team demonstrated select fixtures like Nexus 4×4, Legend 230SR Beam and more. The Foster tour featured 40 CHAUVET Professional fixtures, most notably CHAUVET Professional COLORado Batten 144 Tour. Read the full story here.
Sharp beams, suspended truss and mesmerizing video displays acted like a magnet for hundreds of attendees who visited all three booths of CHAUVET Professional at LDI 2012. Featuring a dominant middle section flanked by two smaller stands, the show carried the creative touch of an amazing team: Lighting Designer Seth Jackson, Co-lighting Designer Nathan W. Scheuer, Programmer Nate Alves, Project Manager Jack Rushen and of the entire CHAUVET Professional team.
Three helixes added to the dramatic height, one placed at the center of the main booth and two suspended above the secondary CHAUVET Professional stands. Designed by Jackson and Scheuer, these truss structures acted as unifying elements for all three areas. “The idea was to have a unique shape tying all three booths together,” Jackson said. Each helix was made of curved trussing, carrying three CHAUVET Professional EPIX Strip fixtures placed end-to-end, next to CHAUVET Professional Legend 412 and CHAUVET Professional Legend 412 VW pixel-mapping moving yokes, CHAUVET Professional Ovation F-165WW Fresnel-style luminaires, CHAUVET Professional Ovation E-190WW ellipsoidal-style spot lights, and CHAUVET Professional COLORado 1-Quad Tour wash lights as truss warmers.
“We were asked to unify all of Chauvet’s booths in an elegant manner while fully displaying the versatility and ability of each product,” Scheuer said. “In a show like LDI, where everything has seemingly been tried once, Seth and I wanted something that was simple, as to not distract from the products themselves, but was also intriguing and enticing at any distance.”
At 30-feet in height, the center booth was loaded with CHAUVET Professional Nexus 4×4 eye-candy LED wash lights that stole the show.
“I find the Nexus 4×4 to be amazing: the flexibility, the unique look,” Jackson said. “I haven’t seen a product on this floor show that resembles these fixtures. And they’re so easy to address!”
Additionally, CHAUVET Professional PVP S5 and CHAUVET Professional PVP S7 high-resolution video panels, CHAUVET Professional MVP Ta8 Curve modular video panels, CHAUVET Professional Xeno 2500 high-impact strobe lights and CHAUVET Professional Q-Wash 436Z-LED wash lights. CHAUVET Professional Legend 230SR Beam moving head fixtures cut through the air with punchy bright beams from an ACS, Autonomous Cart System, incorporated into the booth. Parasol Systems of Canada and CHAUVET Professional partnered to display ACS, built of independent, motorized and programmable carts that move fixtures on specially designed tracks. ACS held eight Legend 230SR Beam lights, which were an integral part of the show.
“Once we found out that Parasol Systems was involved, we added the system into the integration,” Jackson said. “It brings great energy because of the motion and there is nothing else in any other booth like it.”
The team programmed 145 cues over 12 minutes for an amazing show, also using wireless DMX. “I definitely think we’re playing with some geometries that no done else is using,” said Programmer Nate Alves. “We had to work with more open, exposed space, and because of that I think we showed the products more than everyone else.”
Some of the challenges the team faced while building the booths were the limitations of the space and trying to fit power, storage, the products all in the allotted footprint of the venue. “However, the most challenging thing from a design aspect was making sure that we were truly showing off Chauvet’s diverse product line while being original,” Scheuer said. “LDI is a visually striking and overwhelming stage to be on, and the desire to bring something new and innovative was the driving force behind our decisions.”
CHAUVET Professional fixtures displayed:
COLORado 1-Quad Tour
COLORado 4 IP
COLORdash Batten Quad-6
COLORdash Par-Quad 7
COLORdash Par-Quad 18
EPIX Strip
Legend 230SR Beam
Legend 412
Legend 412 VW
MVP Ta8 Curve
Nexus 4×4
PVP S5
PVP S7
Q-Spot 360-LED
Q-Spot 460-LED
Q-Wash 436Z-LED
Ovation F-165WW
Ovation E-190WW
Ovation C-1280FC
Xeno 2500
ILUMINARC fixtures displayed:
Ilumipanel 40 IP
Ilumiline 21g2 IP
Ilumipod 18g2 IP
Additionally shown, in all three booths, were TRUSST products.
Our own Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional and ILUMINARC, participates in this lively conversation about lighting and video in the AV world on AVNation.
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CHAUVET was a gold sponsor for the yearly fund-raiser organized by Community Habilitation Center, a facility that supports and serves 150 adults with developmental disabilities from Miami-Dade County, ranging in ages from 21 to 71. This year’s theme was CHC at the Grammys. CHC members participated in a fashion show, and guests bid in live auctions, raising funds for the center. CHAUVET Professional WELL wireless wash lights lit the stage and washed the walls of the room. CHAUVET Professional COLORado 1 VW Tour wash lights, CHAUVET DJ SlimPAR Pro RGBA fixtures and Intimidator Spot LED 150 moving yokes lit the stage and catwalk from pipe truss. Here are some vivid shots from the event:
We received positive feedback about all of our products displayed at WFX Atlanta 2012, notably our bright and compact Legend 230SR Beam moving yoke, pixel-mapping Legend 412, high-resolution video panels PVP S7 and fixtures from our COLORado family of static wash lights. Additionally, our booth was built using our TRUSST line of truss and we showed fixtures from ILUMINARC, our line of architainment and architectural lighting.
Here are a couple photos of the booth, both finished product and set up.
Brazilian distributor Equipo displayed a variety of CHAUVET fixtures at Expomusic 2012 in Sao Paulo. Among the CHAUVET Professional lights on display were Legend 412 pixel-mapping moving yokes, compact and super bright Legend 230 SR Beam, COLORado 2 Zoom Tour static wash lights, COLORado 1-Tri Tour fixtures, COLORado Range IP luminaires, and COLORado Batten 144 Tour linear wash lights. The 6,400-square-feet stand also featured CHAUVET DJ gear and was built entirely of truss from TRUSST, brand backed by CHAUVET.
