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Robe illuminates 'The House of Dancing Water'

The world’s largest water-based show - 'The House of Dancing Water', directed by Franco Dragone and staged in the purpose-built House of Dancing Water Theatre in Macau - has added 63 new Robe moving lights to the theatre’s rig.

The 41 x BMFL Wash XFs and 21 x Tarrantula LED wash beam lighting fixtures have now been installed in the theatre as part of a drive to upgrade the technical equipment to include more sustainable and advanced options than were available when the show launched in 2010.

Head of lighting, projections and special effects for the theatre and show is Karl Jenkins. He’s been in the post for two and a half years where he runs a team of 26 technicians and has previously worked on several Cirque du Soleil projects.

The final decision to use the Robe fixtures was taken by Jenkins and his head console operator/programmer Justin F Sinclair, who has been with the show since the beginning. The lights were delivered by Robe’s Hong Kong distributor ArcSource Ltd.

The BMFLs are all positioned in the overhead grid on levels 5 and 6, at between 18 and 25 metres above the stage. The Tarrantulas are enclosed in a series of Plexiglas "lighting bubbles" below the water’s surface, and are used to highlight the underwater environment, working in unison with the special FX including "boiling" and other effects created by microbubbles in the water.

With over 1000 fixtures in total in the show - including several submersible IP 67 and 68 ones - Robe is now also an integral part of this production. The whole lighting system is run via a GrandMA2 network with a Luminex backbone which is another recent upgrade.

(Photos: DickWai Lai)

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