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Vari-Lite’s VL2600 Profile selected for ‘So You Think You Can Dance’

Lighting designer Bob Barnhart chose 80 VL2600 Profile luminaires from Vari-Lite, a Signify entertainment lighting brand, as his “workhorse” tool for the 16th season of Fox’s TV show ‘So You Think You Can Dance’.

Produced by 19 Entertainment, Dick Clark Productions and Conrad Sewell Productions, the show saw around 900 dancers compete to be declared “America’s favorite dancer”. During the show’s final stages Barnhart needed to light almost eighty dances.

“A challenge that this particular show brought is a very short schedule,” he says. “We got twenty minutes to light each dance the day before the broadcast. No cameras, just the lighting department, the dancers and the choreographers.”

For Barnhart, the VL2600 Profile’s four-blade framing shutter system has been key to achieving a certain variety. “The shutters gave us a whole new tool to play with,” he says. “We used to have a custom square gobo, just to get away from the usual ‘dots’ look. Now we can make the square any size, and vary shapes from squares to triangles. It’s been really helpful in finding that variety we needed to separate each dance.” Barnhart positioned the majority of the VL2600 Profiles in his overhead rig.

(Photos: Fox)

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