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Robe celebrates award-winning PLASA 2022

At this year’s PLASA, Robe celebrated two Innovation Awards and presented its “All Environments” live performance show (the only one at the 2022 PLASA expo). Furthermore, the company launched its new iForte high powered IP rated LED moving light, introduced its new TX1 Posi Profile (which was presented live for the first time), and showcased several other iSeries products. PLASA ran for three days in the Great Hall of the Olympia exhibition centre in London.

The PLASA Innovation Awards are run in association with “LSi” magazine and honour future-focussed technology that improves safety, efficiency and performance through new methods and materials. Thirty-three products were entered this year whittled down to seven winners, chosen by a judging panel of twelve independent technical specialists from a diversity of backgrounds.

Robe won the award for its new iForte, which was the star of the “All Environments” show. The judges commented that this luminaire “features genuine innovation to help reduce service intervals and to mitigate failure by introducing precise moisture control” inside an IP65-rated fixture. Additionally, Robe’s new TX1 PosiProfile received a “special commendation” with judge’s noting that it is a “novel hybrid of moving light and generic fixture” with multiple uses, particularly in restricted space scenarios.

Artistic Licence won the Sustainability Award for their Micro-Scope Upgrade Kit which breathes new life into a product dating back over thirty years. A simple user-upgrade enables old test equipment to be brought to current standards.

Robe’s “All Environments” live show, as presented at this year’s PLASA, is the first of a trilogy of performances that will premiere at leading international trade shows throughout 2022 and 2023. It was conceived, storyboarded, designed, and produced by Robe’s in-house creative team led by Nathan Wan and Andy Webb with Jordan Tinniswood and Tomáš Kohout.

The 6-minute timecoded show involved approximately 100 iSeries fixtures programmed to show their durability, water resistance and creative features. With this show, Robe also delivered an environmental message, underlining the company’s long-term commitment to sustainability.

A T1 Profile running on a RoboSpot remote follow system was used for key lighting, and a large upstage LED video screen assisted with the narrative showing dramatic images and illustrated the close integration of lighting and video in creative shows. The main screen was augmented with LED cladding the stage front for additional signage and messaging content.

The atmospherics were boosted with the help of MDG TheOne fog/hazer and Ice Fog Compack low fog generator products. A 3000-litre water tank and a mix of programmable pumps and jets produced a rain curtain and water effects as dancer TJ added freestyle bodywork to the fluidity with a specially choreographed show.

A bespoke soundtrack was infused with voiced over statements curated from the work of broadcaster, biologist, natural historian, author, and English “national treasure” Sir David Attenborough and his broadcasts over the years, drawing attention to climate change. Robe also produced dramatic new VOG presentations, complete with their own lighting effects.

Other current Robe products on demo in the back section of the booth included the new Painte and TetraX - a 360-degree continuous rotation LED bar - plus Robe’s LEDBeam 350 and the ABTT Award-winning T11 series, a generic lighting solution for theatres and venues. Launched at the show was Robe’s T11 Profile MFS (Manual Follow Spot) which completes the current T11 range.

Robe also ran training sessions in one of the seminar rooms for its RoboSpot remote controlled follow spot system. Architectural brand Anolis brought an additional dimension to Robe, with their own booth immediately in front of Robe’s prominent stage. Anolis’ new Calumma range was showcased for the first time at a UK expo. Anolis’ Ambiane and Eminere product ranges were also shown.

Robe’s NRG (Next Robe Generation) students supported and assisted the UK sales team on the stand and enjoyed some of the seminars as well. Robe was also joined for the duration of the show by Grainne Earley and Alison O’Shea, students on the Stage Management & Technical Theatre course at The Lir Dublin, and Jack Barlow who is studying Live and Technical Events at Confetti in Nottingham.

(Photos: Louise Stickland/David Gonzalez/Paul Clarke)

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