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Amare project invests in Robe T series

The new Amare building is an arts, culture, and educational hub on the Spui in Den Haag, Netherlands, which opened last year after six years of construction. Built on the footprint of the old Lucent Danstheater, Amare houses the Dance and Music Center, The Hague Foundation, the Residentie Orkest, the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) and the Royal Conservatoire.

Amare offers a 1500-capacity Concert Hall (2500 standing) and a 1300-seater Theatre plus two other performance halls and extensive rehearsal facilities. Over 100 Robe moving lights got specified for the project. These are a mix of 86 x T1 Profiles and 30 x T2 Profiles plus 60 x ParFects, all supplied by Robe’s Benelux distributor Controllux and installed in the two primary venues and their main black box space.

Arjen Bijtelaar is the venue’s stage manager specialising in lighting. He has worked for the venue since 2006 - including at the Lucent Danstheater before its demolition - and explains that the original tender was for profile LED luminaires offering full white and multicoloured colour control. In 2016, the venue was one of the first in the country to invest in Robe’s DL7 series. This was for their temporary residence at the Zuiderstrand Theater in Scheveningen Harbour, Den Haag, which operated during the lengthy construction period.

The company was also the first cultural institution in Benelux to have Robe’s T1 Profile. When the Amare build project started, the T2 had not yet been developed, so the initial spec won by Controllux was for the 86 x T1 Profiles. However, after moving into the new facilities last year, some additional funding became available with which they purchased the T2s and ParFects.

The requirement was for lighting that would assist both the Concert Hall and the stage, all genres of dance, plus theatre and concerts. Of the thirty T2s, eight are used for the Concert Hall FOH, with four on one of the upstage bars, and the remaining eighteen fixtures are in the Theatre, at FOH and in some of the side positions.

The T1s originally intended for the Concert Hall’s FOH bridges are deployed in other positions around the venue, mostly on the advance bar with some in the side balcony positions, with the four other T2s replacing the previous FOH positions. The remaining eighteen T2 Profiles are in the Theatre.

The Concert Hall features a diverse entertainment programme, anything from full symphony orchestra performances to intimate baroque music to full on pop and rock shows. The Theatre primarily stages ballet, musicals and operas, and the different Amare spaces are also available for events, private and commercial hires and other uses.

Visiting companies can either use the full house rig - which also contains LED washes and several other fixtures - or parts of it or bring in their own full or partial productions. The control consoles in the building are all ETC and the DMX merging is achieved via an ACN network.

Pictured (left to right): Kuno van Velzen (Controllux), Amare lighting technician Mathijs Grool and Amare stage manager Arjen Bijtelaar. (Photos: Louise Stickland/Paul Clarke)

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