Schouten is one of the best known and loved comic artists in the Netherlands and tours the country extensively every year, from September to May, playing five or six shows a week - a format that has been highly successful for the last 32 years.
Danny den Bekker has worked as her lighting designer for the last nine years, and technical production and lighting rental company Locomotion from Boxtel has serviced her tours for 26 years.
Den Bekker has been using various Robe products in his designs for about the last seven years, starting with the ColorSpot and Color Wash 575 Series and then the 700 Series ColorSpot and ColorWash. This time around he has the added advantage of the 24 LEDBeam 100s which he's using for the first time.
The LEDBeams are proving extremely versatile and ideal for some of the provincial theatres on the Schouten itinerary, where weight loading in the roof can be limited. Twelve LEDBeam 100s on one fly bar weigh just under 50 Kgs.
Eight of the 24 LEDBeam 100s are used as key and front light for Schouten's eight piece live band, eight are used for general lighting and effects and eight solely for powerful, punchy beam looks.
(Jim Evans)
