Robe BMFL Spot moving lights have been specified for France’s famous Arlette Gruss Circus show which started its 2016 winter tour at the Place des Quinconces in Bordeaux. Since 2009, the show has been staged in the 1500 seater ‘Cathedral’ tent venue, an impressive structure that features 8 masts and

Hamburg dance / trance trio Scooter – considered the most successful German singles recording act with 23 top 10 hits and over 30 million records sold – kicked off their 2016 tour with an eye-catching lighting and set design by Jerry Appelt, one of the best known lighting and visual

  The Salisbury Playhouse has recently brought down the curtain on a Myrtle Theatre Company production of “Up Down Man” by Brendan Murray. The lighting of this internationally acclaimed play was designed and programmed by award winning lighting designer Michael Straun. He chose to run the show on an MA

Robert Juliat was very happy with its position in the middle of the Lightpower Village in Hall 3.0 where its products attracted a constant stream of visitors for the whole duration of the show. The array of RJ Zep LED profile and Fresnel fixtures drew much attention from theatre, event

It’s a twelve-hour drive from Johannesburg to Oudtshoorn, and as the great semi-desert of the Karoo stretches out ahead, rigid mountain silhouetted on either side of the long straight road, it’s a part of the world where ghost stories are plenty, the history is diverse and fascinating and before you

Vejle Musikteater is the largest performing arts venue in the picturesque cultural hub of Vejle which sits at the head of the magnificent Vejle Fjord and the convergence of the Vejle and Grejs rivers in southeast Jutland, Denmark. The venue has invested in over 50 Robe fixtures, including MMX Spots

  Busy UK rental company Storm Lighting, based in Woking, Surrey, has invested in 30 x Robe BMFL Blades and 30 x LEDWash 1000s for their ongoing work which includes a diverse range of premium corporate events, leading theatre tours and some music shows. This new sale follows Storm’s initial

Over 127 schools were invited to attend a Careers Day on 7 April, hosted by Silverstar in Krugersdorp – the focus on employment opportunities available within this casino. DWR Distribution was asked to be a sponsor and exhibitor, giving students the opportunity to consider working in the entertainment industry as

Robe took its winning themed theatre environment concept to the 2016 Prolight+Sound expo, transporting the Robe Piazza to Hall 3 of the Frankfurt Messe, where the Czech manufacturer invested in a space three times larger than at any previous Prolight …. and ensured it was the talk of the show!

The vibrancy and creativity of African fashion designers adorned the runway at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Joburg, by African Fashion International (AFI), from the 10 to 12 March at the Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton. Lighting designer Mauritz Jacobs from Dream Sets has become part and parcel of this anticipated

South Africa: When it comes to suspending line arrays for large-scale events, In-Harmony Productions rely on ProLyft motors from Prolyte. With six one Ton Prolyft motors in stock already, they recently made an investment of an additional two ton motor to keep up with demand. In-Harmony provides a service in

HELLO Community Arts Festival presents Shango, a script concept developed by Tintswalo Millicent Mashele and Hardus Koekemoer and directed by Tintswalo Millicent Mashele. Don’t miss out on this moving production on 8 and 9 April at 19:30 and 10 April at 15:00 at the Breytenbach Theatre. HELLO is an initiative

  Belgian lighting designer Carlo Zaenan of QBE created another amazing live show in Benelux – it’s all happening there – using a rig that included 256 Robe moving lights – the 2016 leg of the ‘Symphonica in Rosso’ concerts, six performances presented by Dutch superstar singer Marco Borsato at

  DiGiCo is pleased to announce the appointment of DWR Distribution PTY (Ltd) as its exclusive distributor for South Africa from April 2016. Founded in 2006, DWR has built an enviable reputation in the South African market for supplying predominantly lighting products. The company has grown rapidly adopting a wonderful

  Ultra Miami 2016, a major U.S. EDM event staged along Bayfront Park in glamorous downtown Miami, attracted over 150,000 music fans and party people for three days of festive enjoyment with some of the best dance sounds on          the planet. This year, Robe BMFL and Pointe moving lights

  Welcome to Castle Lite’s Republic of Extra Cold, Stanley Island, Plettenberg Bay. It sounds exotic, and it is! On 28 Dec 2015, three thousand hip and savvy revellers gathered to enjoy SA’s top acts and many unique and unexpected experiences in the extraordinary country which is the Republic of

Wroclaw, Poland – The inauguration of Wroclaw’s term as European Capital of Culture (ECoC) 2016 saw a truly spectacular live street performance and light show with over 400 Clay Paky fixtures directed by ECoC performance curator Chris Baldwin. Announced as the winner in 2015 following eight years of preparation, Wroclaw

  USA – Lighting designer Bob Barnhart, a veteran of Super Bowl Halftime Shows, chose Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE K20s and gold Sharpys to help light the milestone Super Bowl 50 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.   Super Bowl Halftime Shows always come with challenges, and the daylight-into-sunset

USA – Howard Jones and Nate Alves, who codesigned the lighting for Brantley Gilbert’s Black Out World Tour, have selected an array of Clay Paky fixtures – including the new Scenius moving head spotlight – for the current leg of the arena tour Gilbert, the country rock singer and songwriter,

German artist Andreas Bourani recently toured his “Hey” tour through Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Bourani’s success story started with his song “Auf uns” (on us) during the 2014 football World Cup. Timo Martens, Philip Hillers and Nik Evers created the stage, video content and lighting design for the tour. Photos: ©

World – Folk-punk singer-songwriter Frank Turner is on a world tour in support of his latest album ‘Positive Songs for Negative People’ with a punchy rock and roll lighting design by Shaun Moore using 30 Clay Paky Mythos fixtures. Moore of Nitelites, who has worked with Frank and his backing

Robe kept the innovation flowing at the 2016 TPi Awards dinner – providing much more than just the lighting rig for the high profile industry event staged at Battersea Evolution – with a popular ‘PATT-sketball’ competition, their own variation on the urban sport phenomenon … which was open to the

Robe BMFL Spot moving lights created a huge impact for the arena section of Simple Minds’ “Big Music” tour for which lighting designer Stephen Pollard expanded and scaled up the stage set and lighting rig he used in theatre venues last year. Photos : Edward Fielding Leading UK lighting and visuals

Robe’s new Square LED fixture made its European live TV debut on the three shows produced by Flanders’ public broadcaster VRT which selected the song to represent Belgium at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in Stockholm. The shows featured an intricate and interesting lighting design by Ignace D’Haese from

The Hillsong Christmas Carol Spectacular takes place annually in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town. For the second year to popular demand, the Cape Town leg of the show – with three sold out back-to-back performances – was hosted at the GrandWest Arena. A theatrical atmosphere was created using over 170

Every year DWR Distribution, South Africa, kicks off with the Prolyte Rigging Training Course, an internationally recognized five day course presented by Rinus Bakker from Rhino Rigs. This year the Prolyte course has been evaluated and is registered to provide 48 CPD (continuous professional development credits that can be used to

Lightship Productions, owned and run by the enterprising Ni-Lou Breytenbach, is the latest South African lighting production, design and delivery specialist to invest in MA Lighting control with the purchase of a grandMA Command Wing, delivered by SA distributors, DWR. Lightship works across all industry sectors including corporate and live

A total of 232 Robe moving lights – including 80 x BMFL Blades, 70 x LEDWash 1200s, 84 x Pointes and 8 x LEDWash 300s were part of an exciting and colourful opening ceremony for the new 415 million euro Grande Stade de Lyon in France. Photos : Nicolas Rodet

It was a fantastic turn out for the Robe Roadshow hosted in South Africa by DWR Distribution in February. The roadshow was held in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, which meant that clients in most parts of the country could once again meet up with Robe’s Josef Valchar and Harry

USA – NBC continued to own the live theatrical TV franchise with its latest production, “The Wiz Live!,” which drew 11.5 million viewers and critical acclaim for its debut. The visually stunning show, with lighting design by Allen Branton, featured Clay Paky Alpha 800 Profile and Sharpy fixtures in the

Lighting designer Olly Suckling presented a novel solution and lighting effect using 28 of Robe’s CycFX 8 LED battens to create a giant illuminated M-A-X-I-M-O sign upstage on UK alt rockers Maximo Park’s most recent tour. This celebrated 10 years since the release of their seminal debut studio album, ‘A

Hilton College nestling in the KwaZulu Natal Midlands hills north of Durban is certainly an incredible setting for one of South Africa’s most exclusive boys’ boarding schools set in a large estate with its own wildlife reserve. Hilton College has its own theatre on campus – which is the proud

To all our clients, kindly note that due to our Annual Stock Take DWR Distribution will be closed on Friday, 26 February and on Saturday, 27 February. We would be grateful if you would help us by ensuring all your orders are placed in advanced or collected prior to 27th

Brian Madiba (46) is a theatre crew freelancer who is passionate about running. This year will be his tenth Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon race but many are not aware of what it takes for this man to be there. A couple of friends in the industry, Alistair Kilbee from

Over 300 Robe BMFL fixtures were sold to the French market in the few months since the formation of Robe’s new French subsidiary, Robe Lighting France SAS. The BMFL was launched in autumn 2014, by which time French lighting professionals were ready to specify and keen to use the high-powered

Namibia, known for the desolate beauty of its deserts and sand dunes, amazing wildlife and rich mineral resources is also a stable, socially integrated country with a great energy and sense of the future. The first dot2 XL-F lighting console has recently entered the country, a new investment by leading

  UK – A new advert for the Android and iOS-compatible Huawei Watch features a projection mapped disused theatre space powered by Avolites Ai S4 servers. The Chinese electronics manufacturer’s smartwatch – which rivals the Apple Watch – features a fully circular AMOLED display with a high resolution of 400×400

DWR would love to meet up with you at the Robe Roadshow! Join Josef Valchar and Harry von den Stemmen from Robe and DWR’s Duncan and Bruce Riley, Robert Izzett and Nick Britz as they visit Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town. New products on show will include the Robe Square,