The Circus already owns its own lighting equipment including eight Robe ColorWash 575E AT Zooms and eight ColorSpot 700E ATs which were purchased earlier in 2010 from Robe's Germany distributor LMP.
Robe was specified by the Circus's lighting designer Markus Weitkamp and the fixtures integrated into their ongoing touring show. For the Festive Season shows in Berlin, he wanted some additional magic in the lightshow, so checked out the LEDWash 600s. Almost immediately after the demo from LMP, he took the decision to purchase six of these fixtures.
The LEDWash 600s were rigged on trussing around the circus ring, along with the ColorWash 575E AT Zooms, the ColorSpot 700E ATs and the rest of the lighting rig, which included 20 x Robe ColorWash 700E ATs hired in from Berlin based TSE AG. There were also a host of generics and LED units, all of which were programmed and run by Wietkamp on a grandMA console.
For the Christmas show, he used the LEDWash's as pure wash lights - the task for which they were specifically designed - bathing the ring in an array of strong and distinct colours from all areas of the spectrum. For the 2011 touring show, he is intending to further experiment with the many creative effects that can be produced with the LEDWashes.
Says Wietkamp, "The performance of our initial Robes whist touring really convinced me that they are excellent and robust products - they just worked perfectly all the time - so I seized the opportunity to buy the LEDWashes, which are very unique fixtures."
(Jim Evans)
