LIGHTING
ELATION PROFESSIONAL
Photos: Michael Davis
Magic touch
Above: The lighting system’s
animation wheel was used to
enhance the jitterbug scene
in The Wizard of Oz
Since making their theater debut,
professional automated moving head
luminaires have opened up a world
of design possibilities for theaters and
theatrical lighting designers. “With
versatility and benefits not available even a few
years ago, today’s luminaires have evolved into
multipurpose lighting tools that can cover a
variety of applications in a single show, from
key light to wash light, to effects projector and
more,” says Eric Loader, sales and marketing
director at Elation Professional.
The company’s Artiste series is an awardwinning
line of full-featured theatrical-grade
LED moving heads housing a wealth of design
features – full color mixing and graphics systems,
animation, CTO, dimming, framing, zoom,
prisms, frost and more.
On a Syracuse Stage production of The
Wizard of Oz, lighting designer Herrick
Goldman used the Artiste DaVinci LED moving
head spot for color and visual effects. He
praises the luminaire as a flexible workhorse.
“I wanted a fixture that would help tell the story
while shining new light on a familiar tale,” says
Goldman. “A creative production like this lends
itself well to a theatrical fixture such as the
Artiste DaVinci. In fact, they took so much of
the workload, I could have saved the time and
energy of hanging 25% of the light plot!”
Full coverage
The Artiste DaVinci is a CMY and graphics
luminaire with a 300W LED engine and 7-48°
motorized zoom that emits over 13,000 lm. On
The Wizard of Oz, nine units on electrics were
used for color and texture wash from virtually all
positions – downlight, sidelight, backlight and
frontlight – with an additional two fixtures
working from the downstage deck. When
A Syracuse
Stage production
of The Wizard
of Oz benefits
from the latest
multipurpose
LED luminaires
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