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Bhangra Showdown illuminated by Robe

Bhangra Showdown illuminated by Robe
Bhangra Showdown illuminated by Robe

The 2016 Bhangra Showdown (TBS) event produced by Kudos AV and the Imperial College Punjabi Society is the world’s biggest Bhangra dance competition and this year moved to Birmingham’s Barclaycard Arena. The event featured a lighting design created by Tom Grant and Nathan Wan, which used 80 Robe moving lights at its core: 16x BMFL Wash XFs, 18x MMX Spots, 24x LEDWash 600s and 12x Pointes.

 

Kudos AV’s Hardeep Kataria was the production director and Tom Grant, who also served as production designer commented, “The organisers wanted a wide and angled look this year and something a bit different to a ‘standard’ big LED wall upstage”, so the stage design evolved into an LED screen at the back comprising five flown columns of Absen A3 Pro 3.9 mm pitch screen.

 

Each column was hung on pairs of motors that allowed them to be moved into different positions and create different shapes behind the performers. They also raised and lowered to allow the teams of dancers stage access/exits. Lower resolution LED strips out along the side wings extended the space widthways and added further content space.

 

Eight BMFL Wash XFs were rigged on the front truss with the other eight on the floor, distributed around the back and sides. Twelve of the MMX Spots were positioned on the two over-stage trusses, with six spread out on a pair of wing trusses beneath the side video strips. Eighteen of the LEDWash 600s were on the trusses, with another six rigged on the wing trusses. The twelve Pointes were on the back truss.

 

Nathan Wan programmed and ran the show using an Avolites Arena console, which was connected to three Avolites TitanNet Processors. The lighting crew was chief’d by Mike Williams, joined by Dan Everitt on dimmers and lighting techs Jim Potter and Jon Barlow. The production riggers were Jon Grilli and Jacob Skinner, working under head rigger Mark Baruch, who also assisted with the production design process.

 

(Photos: MSM Photographics)

 

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