Robe at the Y-100 Jingle Ball

Lighting designer Michael Ledesma has used Robe ColorSpot 1200 fixtures as mid and upstage effects lights and to ‘paint the scenery’ at the high profile Y-100 Jingle Ball, which featured top artists such as Will Smith, Shakira and Ricky Martin.
The gig was staged at the Bank Atlantic Centre in Fort Lauderdale Florida, and attracted a sold-out crowd of 17,000. A revolving stage provided by Mountain was used to minimise changeover time between acts, and all lighting equipment was supplied by Paradigm Lighting.
Ledesma worked with programmer Mike Smrka, and together they ensured that the many creative requirements for all LDs looking after different individual acts were achieved.
Paradigm Lighting has used ColorSpot 1200s before on a myriad of television productions, specifying them for their quality optics and colour mixing facilities, and because of their reliability.
As usual with fast-moving multi-artist shows, having a design with the flexibility to create dynamics and variety in the stage ‘look’ was vital. The idea was to give each performer their own distinct visual impression via the lighting. The ColorSpot 1200s aided this process with their comprehensive colour range, additional colour wheel and wide gobo selection - offering up to 48 gobo combinations.
From a rental company angle, reliability is a key requirement for any fixture in their inventory. Time and time again, Robe have proved that its fixtures are some of the toughest and most tourable currently on the market. The ColorSpot 1200 is now a major on-the-road fixture in the US, and like all Robe’s products, it is robustly designed, engineered and constructed to work hard and travel far.
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