Absolute is one of Brazil's leading rental companies, based in Sao Paulo, and supplying lighting, crew and expertise to a whole range of different lighting genres including concerts and touring shows, live venues, television productions and architectural projects. With one of the largest moving light inventories in the area, they were asked to provide both the moving and generic light specification for the Tiësto show.
The layout was a massive dancefloor with a stage at one end. Rogers' design featured 24 Robe Wash 575 XTs, 24 Spot 575 XTs and four ColorSpot 1200 fixtures. These were positioned all across the roof of the venue, attached to the venue's permanent trussing structure, with some units also on the stage floor. According to Absolute, Robe was specified because of its speed, rich colour palette, brightness and general robustness of the lights, and also because the units are easy to programme when time is tight - as it was for this show.
Being an all-night dance event, the units received a good work out. They were in action constantly for 14 hours, used to produce a myriad of effects, helping Tiësto's set come alive with beam and gobo projections and a collage of colours and patterns.
Absolute Lighting has over 100 Robe heads - supplied by Robe's Brasilian distributor, Trendy Lighting - and uses them extensively on all its shows, say Robe.
(Lee Baldock)
