The ballet 'Alice in Wonderland' offered a modern and dynamic staging with Elation

The narrative development of the story, produced by the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, has had 26 Colour units 5 Profile that have been distributed with 24 units located on the sides of the stage, 12 per side in groups of 4 Devices, 19° aperture projection lens and R119 diffuser filter. These teams were positioned to 10 meters high on stage.

The latest production of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's 'Alice in Wonderland' ballet has used the technology of Elation Professional, brand represented by Visuals, for staging.

among the equipment that has been used are 26 ellipsoidal reflectors Led Colour 5 Profile that have provided varied shades of color and white light with different color temperatures during the various ballet scenes.

This ballet adaptation of Lewis Carroll's well-known play 'Alice in Wonderland' was created a few years ago 20 years by the production team of the English National Ballet of London. This recent production by the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre has featured Herrick Goldman as lighting designer, Derek Deane as choreographer and Curtis Dunn as production director.

"It has been a very interesting project to renew the lighting design of this ballet work and bring it to a current and more dynamic style.. When the choreographer of this production, Derek Deane, emphasized looking for a Las Vegas-like style for its lighting, we saw a good opportunity to incorporate luminaires with Led technology that complemented the numerous equipment that the Benedum Center has", explains Herrick Goldman.

The narrative development of the story in this ballet version enables numerous creative opportunities and varied color palettes., and for this the 26 Colour units 5 Profile have been an element of great importance in lighting design.

"The representation begins with naturalistic tones and white light and, subsequently, as the story unfolds, the lighting design is changing towards a greater color and more saturated tones, with scenes such as 'Tea Hour' bathed in an amber color or the Red Queen illuminated with a very saturated red color", goldman says.

The Colour ellipsoidal reflector 5 Profile has a multi-chip Led (RGB+amber+mint) of 180 watts of power, and that projects an infinite palette of colors and also white color with different color temperatures, and with a color rendering index, CRI, of 94.

With blades/framing shutters, space for Iris and for size "B" gobos, 5 dimmer curves, strobe and manual focus control, the Elation Colour 5 Profile has different interchangeable lenses, of 19, 26, 36 and 50° aperture.

the 26 Colour units 5 Profile used in this production have been distributed with 24 units located on the sides of the stage, with 12 units per side in groups of 4 Devices, and with 19° aperture projection lens and R119 diffuser filter, with the devices positioned to 10 meters high on stage.

Another unit of the Elation Colour has also been used 5 Profile to project a gobo zenith, with another unit providing rear lighting.

A gobo rotator, used together with a glass gobo and with prisms and with yellow and amber tones, settled in one of the Colour 5 Profile to be used as a visual effect in different scenes.

"The number of luminaires in this production has been above the 500 units. Thanks to the projection color change possibilities of the Elation Colour 5 Profile has not had to incorporate a greater number of traditional ellipsoidal projectors to the assembly. Yes for each of the 26 Colour 5 Profile we had to have installed some 4 units of a Source Four projector, For example, each with a different color filter, the assembly would have easily exceeded the 600 appliances", clarifies Curtis Dunn.

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