Bruno Mars kicked off his two-year residency at MGM’s Park Theater at Monte Carlo with New Year’s Eve shows for holidaymakers, December 30 and 31. The shows marked the opening season of the new Park Theater, which became one of the first venues in North America to use Claypaky’s SharBar advanced moving LED bar fixtures. Lighting designer and programmer Cory FitzGerald deployed 87 SharBars provided...
The 2017 edition of the iHeartRadio Music Awards celebrated the most popular artists and music of the past year according to listeners of iHeartMedia radio stations nationwide and the iHeartRadio digital music platform. Jon Kusner, lighting designer for 22 Degrees, used more than 500 Claypaky fixtures for the recent show. The awards were telecast live on cable’s TBS, TNT and truTV networks from...
Russia – Claypaky’s SharBar, the LED-based multi-beam effects light fixture, has been used to great effect on a live concert by popular Russian band, My Michelle, at the Volta Club, Moscow with lighting design by Russian designers David Misakyan and Dmitry Buryak. Led by singer-songwriter Tanya Tkachuk, the band has enjoyed great success across Russia with its modern, soulful pop sound. For the...
UK – The Claypaky Scenius Spot is being championed for its superior output, colour and optical quality by lighting designer Dan Williams who is using the award-winning fixtures as workhorses on the video-heavy production of ‘Anarchytecture’, the current European tour by British rockers Skunk Anansie. The fixtures were recommended for the Anarchytecture rig by the production’s lighting supplier...
Luke Bryan wrapped the 2016 leg of his Kill the Lights Tour last fall, but he’s back on the road with a new string of Kill the Lights dates this winter. Lighting designer Justin Kitchenman selected a big package of Claypaky fixtures, provided by Elite Multimedia, for the shows. They include Scenus UN1CO luminaires in one of their first appearances in North America. Luke Bryan kicked off the month...
Wroclaw, Poland – Nearly 100 Claypaky fixtures illuminated the interior of UNESCO world heritage site the Centennial Hall in Wroclaw, Poland, for its live production of large-scale theatrical performance ‘Niebo’ as part of the closing celebrations of the city’s year-long status as European City of Culture 2016. Creative producer and multimedia lighting designer for Niebo was Pawal ‘Spider’ Pająk...
Munich, Germany – The new Claypaky SharBar and other Claypaky products were used by a trio of young artists at the annual artistic lighting awards “LiO (Light is OSRAM)” in their winning installation ‘The 5th Dimension’, hosted at Munich’s historic event space, the Praterinsel, by German lighting manufacturer OSRAM. The winning installation was designed by the artists Eylül Aslan, Sola Thoma and...
Wattens, Austria – World renowned lighting designer Björn Hermann employed 60 x Claypaky Mythos 2 and 20 x Claypaky Supersharpy 2 to deliver two titanic light sculptures as part of a number of artistic light installations during the three-week Festival of Light event hosted by global producer of crystal, Swarovski, in its seven-hectare fantasy park Swarovski Kristallwelten (Crystal Worlds) in...
Ukraine - Internationally renowned lighting designer and director of photography Jerry Appelt specified the new Claypaky Scenius Unico as the main stage workhorse fixture for his richly composed lighting design for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, hosted at the International Exhibition Centre, Kiev, Ukraine. This year, 42 countries participated in the global TV phenomenon, each supported by a...
USA – When Webster University’s Conservatory of Theater Arts staged a production of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” last fall students enhanced the lighting rig with four Claypaky Scenius moving head spotlights. The Conservatory, based in Webster Groves, Missouri, stages six student-designed and student-produced shows and a dance theater each season at the Lorreto Hilton Center. A classical version of...