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Robe fixtures support Belgian ‘WOW’ production

Robe fixtures support Belgian ‘WOW’ production
Robe fixtures support Belgian ‘WOW’ production

The ‘WOW’ performance at the Kortrijk Xpo in Belgium comprised over 50 dance segments which were presented as the end of year work by classic and contemporary students from the Pirouette Dans School, a dance and choreographic academy in Belgium.

 

Lighting designer Rik Uyttersprot from Gravity Design used 20 x Robe Spiider LED wash beams and 48 little LEDBeam 150 moving lights. These are part of a new purchase by Roeselare based lighting rental company La Strada Fashion which was delivered by Robe’s Benelux distributor Controllux. Uyttersprot has lit the annual Pirouette Dans show for over a decade and has worked with La Strada Fashion, which is owned by Roland D’Hondt, for around 18 years.

 

Hall 4 at the Kortrijk complex has plenty of weight loading, so a series of raked trusses were flown in the roof above the stage. There is also the benefit of plenty of space around the stage area which accommodated five high powered projectors positioned behind an upstage screen, adding images and moving footage to the action.

 

The Spiiders and LEDBeam 150s were dotted all over these and used for the top lighting. Uyttersprot also used 12 of La Strada Fashion’s old Robe ColorSpot 700E AT fixtures in the show. “Every design for a show like this needs gobo breakup effects,” he explains.

 

The creative challenge of lighting a show like ‘WOW’ is the intensity of the programming and lighting needed to get through the 50 different works encompassing a wide range of genres, from jazz to ballet, freestyle to contemporary.

 

The full extent of the most recent La Strada Fashion investment was 24 x Spiiders and 56 x LEDBeam 150s, and they are looking at CycFX 8s, MiniPointes and MegaPointes next.

 

(Photos: Rik Uyttersprot)

 

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