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Live Company chooses Astera for Scandinavian productions

Live Company is a technical production and rental specialist based in Skovlunde, a suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark, owned by Peter Clausen, Mikkel Bedsted and two other business partners. Since 2018, the company has invested steadily in Astera products, the first ones being AX1 PixelTubes which were purchased to illuminate the domed roof of Cirkusrevyen’s venue in Dyrehavsbakken.

Started in 1935, Cirkusrevyen is the biggest revue show in Denmark and has been performed every year except 2020, when the season was cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The AX1s were modified with special magnetic fastenings for this specific project. They were utilised during a dance number, where the dancers plucked them from the stage floor and mounted them vertically and horizontally on the set. They also charged off power from the set and ran for over 150 performances, for which the lighting was designed by Malthe Haugaard who has been working in this role since 2015.

Since then, Live Company has increased its stock of the RGBW AX1s, and now has over 70 fixtures in the house, as well as investing in 24 x Astera AX3 LightDrops. Recently, 54 x AX1s were dry hired to the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen for two different shows, La Voix Humaine and Simon Boccanegra, the latter of which was lit by Fabrice Kebour. In Stockholm, Sweden, Folkoperan utilized 40 of Live Company’s AX1s for their recent production of “Tristan & Isolde” with lighting designed by Clement Irbil. The AX1s made up part of a large pixel mapped installation.

(Photos: Henrik Petit for Cirkusrevyen/Sören Vilks)

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