DIJON, FRANCE – Creativity cannot be used up, wrote the iconic Maya Angelou. The more you use, the more it grows. To that, we might add, “the more it is shared, the brighter it shines.” This empowering concept is at the heart of Showlight, and it is why CHAUVET Professional and its sister company, ChamSys, […]
NAPLES, FL – On its website, the Gulfshore Playhouse declares that it is “passionately committed to enriching the cultural landscape of our region by producing professional theatre to the highest artistic standards.” Over the course of a season, the 368-seat main Moran theatre (part of a new 40,243 sq. ft. complex) fulfills this mission in […]
Rapperswil, Switzerland – Mottos are quite easy to make up, but living up to their grandiose claims? Well…that’s often another story, unless you are talking about Circus Knie 2025. This year, the iconic circus presented itself as offering “a mixture of fantasy, poetry and magic.” An idle claim? Hardly. All three of these wonderful qualities […]
ORLANDO –InfoComm is offering visitors to this year’s June 11-13 show a “2030 Vision” into the future.” Attendees who drop by the CHAUVET Professional booth (6453) at the Orange County Convention Center will be able to experience an exciting sampling of that promising time by getting an up-close personal look at advanced lighting fixtures that […]
LONDON – Alexandra Palace is no stranger to technological innovation. It was here on 2 November 1936 that the BBC inaugurated the world’s first high-definition television broadcast. About a quarter of a century later, the stately building was involved in the broadcast of the first satellite to pass over London. The technological tradition continues this […]
AUGUSTA, GA – The team at Harford Sound has set up stages in all kinds of places over the years, but none was quite like the site they worked at for Augusta After Dark. A signature event at this year’s Masters Golf Tournament, the evening gala, which was sponsored by Draft Kings and Sports Illustrated, […]
LONDON – Academy Award winning director Bong Joon Ho tells interviewers that his latest film, “Mickey 17” a futuristic dystopian tale about an intrepid journey made by “expendable” beings to colonize a distant ice planet, is, at its core, an exploration into the “human condition.” Fascinated by his gripping work, critics infer different meanings from […]
ALBERTVILLE, FRANCE – The words you speak become the house you live in. So wrote the ancient sage Hafez. The wisdom of this dictum echoes clearly through the halls of Le Dôme Théâtre, a beautiful Italianate building in the heart of the Savoyard town. Since its opening, this multi-purpose facility has built a vibrant theatrical […]
FRANKFURT – Recently, CHAUVET Professional has been marketing its celebrated line of fixtures under the banner “Finally True Colours ReveaLED.” And while it’s true that the brilliant, realistic colours created by the company’s latest fixture are nothing short of jaw dropping, it’s also true that the company will be impressing with another kind of “reveal” […]
NASHVILLE – The transformative power of lighting design springs forth from many wells: color, movement, brightness, shadows… the list goes on. For Mike Castle one of the deepest and most mysterious sources of lighting’s sway over audiences begins with angles. “I love experimenting with unusual angles of light,” he says when describing his work. “I […]
LAS VEGAS – Magic, they say, is built on defying perception. How true! Especially in Las Vegas, the desert oasis that has been known to bend reality in unimaginable directions. A special kind of magic was indeed in the air on The Strip February 5th when charismatic superstar Blake Shelton kicked off his six-show residency […]
GENK, BELGIUM – It is said that the creative drive has no reverse gear. Although building on what has been done in the past and echoing themes, it never repeats itself, but instead is constantly looking forward, rejuvenating itself with original ideas at every turn. The iconic Belgian duo Clouseau has embodied this concept in […]