Some of Alfa System’s most challenging
engineering projects have involved TV shows,
musicals and high-level events. “In addition to
high-speed winches and stage lifts, show creators
are pushing the boundaries, specifying the
development of special machines conceived to
move and reconfigure the whole set quickly,” says
Luca Galante, technical manager at the company.
Moving pieces
Inspired by a folding travel cup, scenographer
Riccardo Bocchini envisioned a giant telescopic
staircase that could extend quickly during a live
broadcast of the Sanremo Music Festival 2016, an
Italian song contest. His intention was to provide
an amazing entrance effect for guests.
For a subsequent edition of the same show,
Bocchini conceived a pop-up set design, based
on a large array of independently automated
blades that could pop up and down. Ten of
Opposite page: The new CM
winches at Teatrul de Nord
Opposite page, bottom: Alice
in Wonderland’s revolving
stage and lift in construction
Top left: Alfa’s E40 winches
Above: Riccardo Bocchini’s
telescopic staircase in
development at Alfa
Opposite page, inset: The
finished telescopic staircase
STAGE TECHNOLOGY
those elements featured rotating steps, elegantly
revealing a stair in the center of the stage. The
show required 40 custom automatic elements.
Machinery on tour
For temporary installations and tours,
plug-and-play modularity is mandatory. For
Alice in Wonderland, a modern circus show by
the Bucharest Metropolitan Circus, Alfa supplied
a 160m2 (1,722ft2) automated stage with three
concentric rings, which revolve independently,
and a central lift. “The system was designed and
built so that load-in, assembly and setup can be
done very quickly, making it easy to take the
show on tour around the country,” says Galante.
When it comes to winches, reliability and
speed are often key elements. Alfa offers a range
of zero-fleet winches for this market – the S30,
E40 and E52. These enable many configurations,
with a load capacity which can exceed 250kg
(551 lb), a speed of 4-7m/s (13-23ft/s) and travel
from 20-100m (66-328ft) and above. They are
used by rigging companies to realize flying effects
in the events and film industry. n
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