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Victor Fable uses Elation rig for new season of ‘America’s Best Dance Crew’

The new season of MTV’s ‘America’s Best Dance Crew’ (ABDC) premiered on July 29, 2015 with lighting designer Victor Fable turning to a lighting rig from Elation Professional to light the recently revived dance reality show competition. Fable served as lighting designer for the first five seasons of the show, which had a seven season run that ended in 2012.

Season 8, titled ‘America’s Best Dance Crew All-Stars: Road to the VMAs’, pitted six all-star dance crews against each other, with the stage at Warner Brothers Studio 19 in Los Angeles the site of weekly dance offs for the $100,000 grand prize.

Victor Fable’s fixture selection included Elation Platinum SBX hybrid moving heads, Sniper 2R multi-effect lights, Pixel Bar LED strip lights, Colour 5 Profile ellipsoidal spots and Protron 3K LED strobe. “It’s the center piece of the center stage and the cornerstone of the lighting design,” Fable says about the Snipers. “I like to drop the prism in which looks just huge when you’ve got 60 fixtures.”

Fable used the hybrid lights from the floor and center stage, which meant they were in camera shots a lot. Step units and bleachers on the ABDC stage were lined with a combination of one-meter long Pixel Bar 40s and 1/3-meter long Pixel Bar 12s.

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