Robert Juliat’s Grand Range of followspots are the ones to call on when you want to party on a big scale. Robert Juliat’s Aramis and Lancelot long-throw models have been out in full force in the Netherlands for two of the countries most exuberant parties. Lighting designer Martin Beekhuizen used

Over the last few months we have been very grateful to all the new subscribers to the DWR Newsletter. Subscribers can select whether they want to receive the latest news, receive info about new products or find out about training and roadshow dates. Below are the latest winners, randomly selected. We

For the very first time, Robe Lighting s.r.o. will have its own stand at Mediatech, the biannual media and entertainment technology trade show for Africa. Mediatech will be held from the 15 to 17 July at The Dome, Northgate, Johannesburg.   The Robe team is already familiar with South Africa,

Mediatech 2015 is here and DWR Distribution looks forward to seeing you at our stand – J47 from 15 to 17 July from 10am to 6pm. The show has grown from strength to strength and it has been a pleasure to see the interest and dedication shown from international suppliers

Clay Paky will put on a multimedia show at Mediatech 2015 with the most successful lights of the year: the MYTHOS, the SUPERSHARPY, the STORMY and the B-EYE. MYTHOS is a highly advanced form of hybrid light: first of all, it is an excellent 470 watt-lamp spotlight, which produces an

In the right light at the right time everything is extraordinary – Aaron Rose  Join one of South African’s finest lighting designers, Michael Broderick, at Mediatech as he presents a carefully orchestrated performance using one Robe BMFL fixture and a dancer.  The fifteen-minute shows will be held every day from

Due to popular demand and a fully booked response to the Lighting Design Session hosted at Mediatech on 16 July, Internationally acclaimed Lighting Designers Paule Constable and Durham Marenghi have agreed to host an additional session on Friday, 17 July. These world-class LDs have been brought to South Africa thanks

 Top international pop artists, Take That, are currently promoting their seventh studio album, III, on their Live 2015 tour with seven Robert Juliat followspots playing major roles in highlighting the artists and the many theatrical antics that surround them. Creative director, Kim Gavin, has devised a show that involves a

Doughty Engineering installs range of products in the School of Creative Arts– The School of Creative Arts at Queen’s University in Belfast boasts some of the most desirable undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the country. With demand for spaces on the practical film making course drastically outstripping supply, the University recently built a new centre

Chicago-based Performance Lighting is another leading U.S. company to recently invest in Robe – with the purchase of 30 x BMFL Spots and 12 x Pointes. The busy design and rental facility supplies lighting to all sectors – from corporate and industrial to music festivals, concert tours, TV and theatre

UNITED KINGDOM – Since 1985 Fisher Productions has been supplying a complete production service to a wide array of corporate and private clients. Their quality bespoke service has secured the company as the preferred suppliers at many of the UK’s premier visitor locations including the National Portrait Gallery, the V&A

Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, the UK’s highest profile and best known festival event once again proves a massive hit for Robe moving lights – over 600 of which were deployed on a multiplicity of stages site-wide, including in major creative areas like Arcadia’s giant spider spectacular show and

West London based lighting and video rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment supplied lighting and visual equipment to some of the coolest, most creative elements of another hugely dynamic 2015 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts … including Arcadia, Block 9, The Common and The Glade. The crew of 25 was

“It fits the bill perfectly”: dot2 sales hit the spot for MA’s distributor Ambersphere Solutions Since its unveiling at Prolight + Sound in April this year, the new dot2 range of consoles from MA Lighting has been establishing itself as yet another of the MA family of consoles that ticks

–         won the ABTT Award for Engineering 2014 while still in prototype form –  Doughty Engineering’s award winning Modular Rigging System will be making its first official appearance at this year’s ABTT show. The range which is riding high on a wave of success, was first introduced as a prototype

USA – The Live Design Products of the Year Awards 2014-2015 were held on Thursday 4 June at the Jerry H Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts, during the New York Master Classes (NYMC), and the Mythos climbed onto the highest step of the podium once again in the “Luminaire”

Koltech is a forward thinking lighting and audio rental company based in Beersheva, Israel’s seventh largest city and the biggest in the arid Negev desert region to the south of the country. Photos by Louise Stickland. The company is owned by Yossi Bendavid – popularly known as Zak Zak which

Hennie Ellis, owner of Audio Quest has been using an Avolites Tiger Touch Console, LumenRadio Wireless DMX and his trusted 20 Robe 575 XT Scanners for various festivals. Audio Quest supplied the lighting for the main stage at the Gariep KunsteFees last year, The Uppington Kalahari KuierFees and the Upington

POLAND – ARAM Poland was in charge of the design and technical production of the largest gaming event in the world, the ninth World Final of the Intel Extreme Masters, and Clay Paky Mythos played a significant role in lighting this game show for the first time ever. Photo credit: ESL The

Lars Bakke and the sales team from Robe’s Norwegian distributor Norsk Sceneteknikk based in Spydeberg, seized the opportunity to actively support local prog-rock band Sørgekåpe with additional lighting … when lead singer Kim Lunde started working with them about a year ago. Photos by Lasse Bakke They saw several opportunities in

Nearly 500 Robe BMFL moving lights were right at the core of an amazing lighting scheme designed by LD Mac Chan for the vibrant Opening Ceremony of the 2015 South East Asia Games in Singapore on Friday. Photos courtesy Louise Stickland The glittering spectacle staged in the new 55,000 capacity National Stadium

The Pilanesberg National Park was the graceful setting for AMWAY’s 20th Celebration Dinner. As guests sat around a roaring fire at the BOMA at Sun City, the rustic mood was given a modern twist with a significant collection of lighting equipment supplied by Kilowatt AV. Their client, Red Hot Events,

Photos by David Benade, dB Audio The Namibian Annual Music Awards (NAMA, staged at the Swakopmund Indoor Sports Centre in the coastal town of Swakopmund, was lit up with 18 Robe BMFLs forming part of a large Robe rig. dB Audio Namibia were entrusted to supply the full technical support

When international dealers were invited to the Robert Juliat factory in France earlier this year, it was an eye-opening experience to see the dedication in which the company is run. Robert Izzett from DWR Distribution, the South African distributor, joined the tour and training, was very impressed. “I had the

  SABC TV Outside Broadcasts have invested in an Avolites Quartz console, part of the Titan Mobile Family, and a Lumen Radio CRMX Nova FX RDM Transmitter and Receiver, their second LumenRadio acquisition. South African based DWR Distribution supplied the equipment. Andre Rossouw, the Specialist Production Lighting Electrician for the

Puerto Rican pop singer, composer and actor Chayanne is currently touring with a lighting design by Belgian-based designers Alain Corthout and Ignace D’Haese, who have many top Latin stars in their current portfolio, and the skill of lighting this lively and demanding genre honed to a fine art! Photos courtesy

  Since 1938, the Habima Theatre has officially been considered the national theatre of Israel. Among the first Hebrew language theatres, it is located in Habima Square, central Tel Aviv in an impressive building reopened in 2012 after four years of renovations, with architect Ram Karmi harmoniously integrating historic and

Photos by Elke Briers Event organisers VTM Television and the Ethias Arena in Hasselt, Belgium asked the Painting With Light team to add some extra special visual flair to the 10th annual edition of the Schlagerfestival, a live show highlighting some of the best Flemish and Dutch ‘Schlager’ genre of

Photo credit: Ralph Larmann Germany – Lighting designer Manuel da Costa has chosen to use a significant number of Clay Paky A.leda B-EYE and Sharpy fixtures on the latest series of hit TV show The Voice of Germany. Spanning four seasons, the talent show is extremely popular with viewing figures

Moscow, Russia – This Valentine’s Day saw one of the biggest dance events in Russia’s history hit its capital. Over 17,000 Muscovites partied hard throughout a 3 and a half hour dance mash-up marathon, with lighting designer Konstantin Gerasimov of 4DProject employing an array of Clay Paky fixtures to deliver

USA – A team of Avolites’ powerful Ai EX8 media servers is driving spectacular visuals in Las Vegas’s new superclub, Omnia. Billed as ‘a new nightlife experience’ and created by international lifestyle brand Hakkasan Group, Omnia is situated on The Strip in the world famous Caesar’s Palace. Designed by the

  The Who are amongst the world’s ‘greatest’ and most influential rock bands, with a reputation for great music, uncompromisingly edgy lyrics, fast-and-furious live performances and shouting out for the mod generation. Add the countless innovative studio albums, 100 million plus records sold and a career spanning over 50 years,

A few brave hearts from DWR Distribution entered The Jeep Warrior (4) Race hosted by Advendurance at Hakahana Trails near Hatebeespoort Dam situated in the North West Province of South Africa on the 10th May. “It looked like fun,” said Nicolet Britz, the only fearless female competitor from the DWR

At the glittering Naledi Theatre Awards, hosted recently at the Lyric Theatre at Gold Reef City in Johannesburg, DWR Distribution was delighted to sponsor the Best Lighting Design Category, which was presented to Daniel Galloway from The Fugard Theatre for his innovative lighting of the hit production of “The Rocky

  Photos by Hans van der Veen The story goes that some 21 years ago, when KKNK (Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees), the Afrikaans arts festival took place for the first time, the Goth-like techies arrived in their Dr Martens and black attire ready to set up in the town of

DWR Distribution invites you to take part in the MA Dot 2 Roadshow, hosted at our offices in Johannesburg (22 & 23 June), Durban (24 June) and in Cape Town (26 June). Meet up with MA’s Chris West and Franco Zaghini and the DWR team. The roadshow will be divided

UK – One of the most exciting developments in the entertainment industry of the past few years is the demand for musical/theatrical entertainment as a prequel to high profile sporting events. There’s little doubt that the Opening and Closing ceremonies for the London 2012 Olympics had a significant influence in

Photos and words by Louise Stickland Bob Carlton’s cult high speed, hi-energy intergalactic musical romp – very loosely based on Fred M. Wilcox’s classic 1956 sci-fi movie “Forbidden Planet” – echoing Shakespeare’s The Tempest with extra hallucinogenic qualities, pumping 1950s and 60s jukebox soundtrack and a cast of highly talented

An epic romance set in the last days of Czarist Russia, “Doctor Zhivago” has opened at The Broadway Theatre with lighting design by Tony Award winner Howell Binkley. Conventional and moving lights, wind, fog, snow and fire effects for the sweeping new musical are controlled by grandMA2 light consoles. Doctor

Please credit photos to Julio Himede Lighting Designer Tom Kenny produced another spectacular large-scale work to illuminate the 2015 mtvU Woodie Awards staged at the vast Austin American Statesman site on the south bank of the Colorado River during the SXSW Music Festival. The popular event, organized by MTV’s 24-hour

Photos are courtesy of Scooter Braun Management. Highly popular, talented, chart-topping singer / songwriter, actress – and most definitely rising star – Ariana Grande is storming the US on her current “My Everything” tour. Complete with a spectacular lighting design by Chris Kuroda, the tour includes 76 x Robe BMFL

The fabulous Royalty Soapie Awards, an acknowledgement of all the characters many South Africans welcome into their living rooms every evening, was hosted on the 28th March 215 at the Durban ICC and broadcast on M-Net’s Mzansi Magic. For the very first time Hirezone supplied the full technical which included

WORLD – The band Maroon 5 has kicked off its World Tour 2015 with 100 Clay Paky Mythos and 20 Sharpy Wash fixtures occupying a prominent place in the rig. Maroon 5 launched its World Tour 2015 in Dallas on February 16 and will finish in Auckland, New Zealand in

UK/Germany – Avolites proved its truly international appeal at Prolight + Sound 2015, teaming up with dealers, distributors and friends from around the world to celebrate the launch of its Arena console, the new Titan V9 operating system, and its industry-leading new features such as Autoblend. Visitors to the Avolites

Stereophonics photos by David Morrell London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall is the first live performance venue in the UK to invest in Robe’s BMFL Spot moving light, with a purchase of 17 fixtures for its in-house lighting rig. The decision was taken by the Hall’s Senior Technical Manager, Ollie Jeffery,

South African Set and Lighting Designer, Joshua Cutts from Visual Frontier, used 24 Robe BMFLs on Miss South Africa, hosted at Sun City’s Superbowl on 29 March. Joshua explains that the beautifully lit HD televised production, with the set and full technical supplied by Dream Sets, went back to a

Photos courtesy Louise Stickland Robe enjoyed another mega busy and successful Prolight+Sound expo in Frankfurt, Germany, with the launch of 10 new products and four hyperactive days on the booth in Hall 11 at the Messe exhibition centre. This was preceded by Robe’s sixth biennial International Distributor Conference, staged a

Photo courtesy David Morrell Boston USA based Lighting Designer Jeff Maker relished the chance to use 135 Robe moving lights including 18 x BMFL Spots for a super high profile and very special one off / DVD shoot show at Wembley Ariana, London, UK, for lively US punk rock band,

  With top lighting designers asking for it, MJ Event Gear have upgraded from the grandMA full size to a grandMA2 Lite. “It was time we got one and Olebogeng Boinamo from our offices has been pestering me!” commented Mike Jones, owner of MJ. “It’s a great product.” Ole is