Isagenix held its annual flagship ‘experience’, Celebration 2020, earlier this year at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. The motivational presentation featured a series of powerful training sessions over the three days, with concert style technical production providing the backdrop and the wow factor. Executing agency, CG Creative, tasked LD Paul Whitby and Novatech Creative Event...
Grammy nominated and contemporary Christian singer Lauren Daigle was 10 dates into an arena tour when COVID-19 forced its temporary suspension. It was her first collaboration with the lighting partnership of Seth Jackson and Nathan Alves (of Darkroom Creative), and easily her biggest production tour to date. The arena setting allowed the two men to create a partial rolling stage, giving the design...
More commonly known by her stage name, Izïa, Izïa Higelin is the rock star daughter of 70s pop legend Jacques Higelin. The Senegal born actress and musician recently completed a 24 date French tour on the back of her new album, Citadelle. It took an inspired deployment of GLP’s mighty X4 atom, with its tiny form factor, by the artist’s LD, Jordan Magnée, to provide an imaginative backdrop. The...
GLP are launching a new series of short form, fun and informative interview videos with lighting designers from around the industry. The series will see videos released on a weekly basis with different designers facing the same 10 questions. Covering their career starts, their career highs and some of the moments they would rather forget. Partly informative, partly inspirational, and partly...
Bending Lite Productions’ Erik Mahowald has enjoyed a long tour of duty with American electronic musician and DJ Dillon Francis, noted for popularising the ‘Moombahton’ genre—a fusion of house music combined with reggaeton. Last summer Erik conceived a lighting design for Coachella 2019 based around 60 GLP JDC1 hybrid strobes, but with the intention of bringing it to major headline events...
In March and April 2020, German TV network ProSieben broadcast the second season of the TV show “The Masked Singer” (TMS), in which celebrities compete against one another with vocal performances, clad in imaginative full body costumes. Whoever receives the fewest votes per show must remove the mask and disclose their identity. In the meantime, the jurors, Ruth Moschner and Rea Garvey, along with...
From mid-February to early March 2020, German Canadian singer Alice Merton was on the road to promote her long awaited debut album MINT +4. Merton, who had already caused an international sensation with the song No Roots back in 2016, and is also known in Germany as a jury member of the popular TV show The Voice of Germany. Her MINT +4 tour took the artist to Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria...
Originally from Manila, Philippines, Cha See is a lighting designer for theatre, opera, dance, environmental performances and on-site installations in New York City. She recently worked on a New York Theatre Workshop production of the play Houseplant at the Fourth Street Theater. For reasons that she explains below, her lighting design necessitated a lot of green. Read on to see how she used three...
White Light has supplied the lighting equipment for Uncle Vanya which has opened at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End. Written by Anton Checkov, Uncle Vanya is possibly one of theatre’s most iconic plays, with thousands of productions since its Moscow premiere in 1899. This latest production has been directed by Ian Rickson and features a lighting design by Bruno Poet. Bruno comments...
White Light has supplied the lighting equipment for Leopoldstadt; which opened at the Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End last night. Written by legendary playwright Tom Stoppard, Leopoldstadt tells the story of three generations of the same Jewish family living in early 20 th century Vienna. It is directed by Patrick Marber and features a lighting design by Olivier Award-winning Neil Austin...