UK - Shenzhen Lamp Technology will launch Seele 18.75mm at PLASA 2012. Seele is a modular system of LED video panels which is designed for the demanding rental and staging market & fixed installations. It allows you to create your own video imaging design to set your staging apart from the ordinary, says the company.

A true IP65 protection rating, wide operating temperature range and high brightness enable the curtain to be used in most indoor & outdoor applications.

Twomodels are available. One is rotatable structure, allowing a curved screen. With the other, you can switch between

South Africa - Le Grand Cirque de Adrenaline thrilled a South African audience with breathtaking performances at the Joburg Theatre. While the show pushed acrobatics to the limit, the technical was equally impressive. Much of the gear, including 12 new Clay Paky Alpha Profile 1500s, was supplied by MGG Productions.

"The Alphas were just amazing," commented Renaldo van den Berg from MGG. Renaldo and Kevin Rieck were part of the MGG team who helped set up for the show. Renaldo also assisted with the programming of a DVD shoot.

Three new Prolyte Circle trusses were purchased

USA - As a dancer, actress, music artist, producer, and fashion designer, Jennifer Lopez has sold over 55m records worldwide. With a celebrated career spanning over 17 years, she has taken on many challenges in many different industries, except for one. With the launch of her 2012 world tour, Lopez is embarking on her first headlining live tour and behind the scenes lighting designer and programmer Sean Burke has created an energetic and dramatic lighting design using Vari-Lite VL3500 Wash FX and VL3000 Spot luminaires provided by Upstaging.

"This is the first live tour for Jenni

UK - Robe celebrates its tenth birthday and 10years of 'Working With Winners' at PLASA 2012, referring to its international distribution team, most of whom have been with the company since its first PLASA in 2002.

The company was established in 1994, starting with humble beginnings in a small garage, and was launched as the 'Robe' brand in 2002. The company is still independently owned and run by the original partners who take active roles in its day-to-day running.

Now with one of the most high profile booths of the show, and fresh from the Czech House Olympic Pavilion at the Busin

Germany - Wireless LED system manufacturer Astera has forecast significant medium-term growth of the market that it helped to create, predicting that the demand for wireless LED products could double by 2014.

The company - which pioneered wireless LED technology in 2005 with the development of remotely-controlled LED tubes - has observed a sharp increase in the sales of its products in recent months. This, combined with a steady rise in the number of competitor firms launching development of their own wireless LED products, has led the brand to make its projections amid preparations f

UK - Pharos will be showcasing a range of bespoke mobile web apps that have been produced to meet the specific needs of clients. Custom web interfaces have always been part of the standard Pharos feature set - all Pharos controllers can host them - but creating rich web applications for touch screen mobile devices presents additional challenges.

In response to projects requiring control from mobile devices, Pharos now offers a web app authoring service. Each app can be tailored to suit the corporate and technical requirements of clients, from the icon on the Home screen to the layout

UK - Swisson will debut the XMT-350 RDM Controller and DMX Measurement Tool at PLASA 2012.

The XMT-350 combines the features and functions of a RDMController with the company's current DMX Measurement and Testing Tool. The XMT-350 is easy to use, simple robust and very reliable. Set and patch DMX addresses, select DMX personality, and receive device information and updates. The XMT-350 works together with wireless RDM over Artnet. It's like the Swiss army knife for the Entertainment and Architectural Lighting.

Swisson will also be showing the XSW Wireless DMX Splitter. The XSW combi

UK - DMT has upgraded its Pixelscreen Tour series with the new P6 Tour screen which represents the newest generation of indoor and outdoor high-res LED screens for both rental and permanent installations. Excellent brightness, outstanding contrast, compatible size ratio and fashionable look are making it ideal for use demanding environment and applications.

The ergonomic and service friendly design with a sensational low weight of 21 kg for each panel improve the set-up times of Pixelscreens. The modular structure allows a 'one-minute' maintenance in case of any problem.

The Pixelsc

UK - Alongside Pulsar's new optimised TriColour LED chipsets that generate between 25 and 50% more light per Fixture, PLASA 2012 sees the official launch of Pulsar Fixture Management (PFM), a remote configuration system for Pulsar fixtures controlling settings that would normally be programmed by their User Interface Module (UIM).

"It's a real bonus for fixtures installed in inaccessible places, essential for products without their own UIM, and helps engineer a cost-effective and tamper-resistant lighting solution powered by Pulsar's cutting edge LED ChromaRange Fixtures," s

UK - Stage Electrics has been appointed as a distributor for new British LED fixture manufacturer Lumonic. The first product launched in a planned new stable is the ilumo Zoom Led spot/wash.

Davie Bell divisional sales manager at Stage Electrics commented, "Lumonic are a new company, but their team has a huge experience of entertainment lighting and product design. Their first product in the ilumo range has a number of exciting features and superb colour mixing optics with an extremely clever Colour Crossfade Engine which means the unit can fade from one colour to another without

Operatic Moves - The arm of the Royal Opera House dedicated to commissioning and producing contemporary opera and dance is to close. The company revealed it had decided not to continue with ROH2 as a distinct entity after Deborah Bull, who had creative responsibility for the strand, and Alison Duthie, the department's head, left to take up positions with King's Cultural Partners earlier this year.

Two positions from ROH2's eight-strong team have been made redundant, including that of head of opera development, a role held by John Lloyd Davies. The post of manager of the On the Road

UK - Robe celebrates its tenth birthday and ten years of 'Working With Winners' at PLASA 2012, referring to its international distribution team, most of whom have been with the company since its first PLASA in 2002.

The company was established in 1994, starting with humble beginnings in a small garage, and was launched as the 'Robe' brand in 2002. The company is still independently owned and run by the original partners who take active roles in its day-to-day running.

Now with one of the most high profile booths of the show, and fresh from the Czech House Olympic Pavilion at the Bus

UK - Stageco and Tait Technologies will once again be exhibiting together with a shared stand at PLASA 2012 following a highly successful year working alongside one another across Europe.

The two companies opened a joint London office in May 2011, building on years of working alongside each other across a range of projects and as a step towards further cementing their European strategic alliance.

This year Stageco and Tait Technologies respectively, have continued to provide innovative staging solutions and scenic motion technology to a number of international events, prominently th

UK - International screen specialist displayLED has launched a new generation of the flexible LED tile, digiFLEX. The new digiFLEX is a more robust version of displayLED's previous award winning flexible screen, upgraded to be production friendly in concert touring environments while simultaneously providing camera friendly imagery in television studios. The product also opens up creative and dramatic opportunities for architectural applications and for creating stunning displays for the conference and exhibition market.

"The new digiFLEX is a rugged, rental-friendly product with

UK - Billions of people worldwide watched the 2012 London Olympic Games opening and closing ceremonies, where producer Danny Boyle masterfully deployed mystical elements of the gods - light, colour, and fire - in a celebration of British culture and history, depicted using a huge rig featuring all the latest in entertainment technology from around the world.

The prodigious system of LEDs, lasers, lighting, projection, audio, motion control and pyrotechnics was flawlessly controlled and synchronised over a stadium-wide network using more than eight kilometres of fibre optic cable. A si

Switzerland - The train journey to the Jungfraujoch station in the Swiss Alps is one of the world's most spectacular. Stunning views from the platform, restaurants and a geological station greet visitors when they finally reach the top. And now, with the help of ETC Selador Desire LED lighting fixtures, a large section of tunnel has been turned into even more compelling tourist experience.

Up to 5,000 people visit Jungfraujoch per day, from around the world, normally leaving within an hour. Now the streams of people can explore six special attraction areas as part of a new museum-like

UK - Two Robert Juliat Lancelot 4000W HTI followspots, supplied by exclusive UK distributor White Light, illuminated a spell-binding rainfall that fell on London's Jubilee Gardens in June.

A 'Rain of Poems' fell from a helicopter as it hovered above Jubilee Gardens for 30 minutes, distributing 100,000 bookmark-shaped poems onto large crowds as they scrambled excitedly to catch and collect them all.

The Lancelots' powerful beams swept the sky, roof tops and the magnificent London Eye, which formed the backdrop for the deluge of poetry, picking out the spinning poems from the darkness

UK - While the eyes of many were firmly focused on east London, theatrical life did nonetheless continue across the rest of Britain - notably in York, for which the highlight of August is the performance of the York Mystery Plays.

Recent productions have seen the plays performed at York's Theatre Royal, around the city and, for the Millennium Mystery Plays, in York Minster itself. For 2012, the plays are returning to the Museum Gardens in York, allowing them to be staged with the dramatic ruins of St. Mary's Abbey as a backdrop. This is a return to the location used from the fi

Europe - Acclaimed lighting designer Paul Normandale is set to wow arena audiences in Europe on Coldplay's Xylo Myloto tour with a dazzling lighting design crammed with Philips Vari-Lite luminaires.

Normandale, whose enviable design credits include: Bjork, Depeche Mode, Shakira, and the Stone Roses, is using the power of Philips Vari-Lite VL3500 Wash FX units to create a e lighting experience "to perfectly complement the band's ultraviolet spectacular".

Coldplay's current world tour promotes the band's Mylo Xyloto album release, which has charted at number on

USA - Having maintained a long relationship with GLP Inc. since the original impression 90 (first used on the WWE circuit), Bandit Lites has embraced every subsequent generation of the German company's LED platform.

Recently they invested in Spot One technology - noting that this high power LED spot was the first fixture of its kind to be released to the global market.

"The impression 90 was definitely a revolutionary fixture at the time," remembers Bandit Lites' president, Pete Heffernan. He added that this success was followed by the Volkslicht which has appeared on many

Russia - Soviet and Russian pop singer, songwriter and producer, Philip Kirkorov, is using fixtures from PR Lighting to support his latest 60-date Eastern European DruGoy tour, designed to promote his new album.

Five time winner of the World Music Awards and with eight Ovation awards under his belt, Russia's most popular singer has been given a grandioise stage set - including huge screens, 3D-graphics, fireworks, computer and animated effects - and a dynamic lightshow designed by Boris Volkov.

FE Belimlight, the PR Lighting distributor for Belarus, was selected to provide th

USA - ANSI E1.35 - 2007, Standard for Lens Quality Measurements for Pattern Projecting Luminaires Intended for Entertainment Use, is being revised to increase the accuracy of the measurement procedure while still keeping it simple. The draft of the revised standard is available for free download and comment through 8 October at http://tsp.plasa.org/tsp/documents/public_review_docs.php.

E1.35 describes a method that uses a projected gobo image for measuring stage and studio luminaire lens quality, with particular emphasis on quantifying contrast and perceived image quality (sharpness).

UK - Placebo are using 90 Robe Robin 300 LEDWash fixtures in custom touring frames for their current European festival tour, specified by lighting designer Jvan Morandi.

Morandi is well known for his fresh and innovative visual concepts and has worked for Placebo since their MEDS album in 2006. Each time they go on the road he brings something new and interesting to the visual equation.

This is the first time that he has specified Robe moving lights for one of his touring rigs, which are being supplied by PRG EML Productions.

The main idea behind Placebo's touring 'specials

MilTec (UK) Ltd. will once again be in their prime position in the front row at the PLASA show where they will be joined by UK and Ireland distributor MT Pro Ltd on stand 1-F1 in the main hall. There will be several new products on show in both the lighting and audio sections, featuring LED lighting, lightweight amplification and professional speakers. This will be in addition to existing products such as LED pars, mixers and signal processing.

On the lighting front, there will be moving heads, LED pars and battens, all featuring up-to -date technology with 150W white and 8W quadcolour LEDS

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