This set was pretty simple. Our goal was to create angles of truss and lots of beams! My inspiration was from my time at Northland. We had and angled proscenium in the Rink. It lent so amazingly to angled truss that for about a year it was part of our house plot. So, I tried to re-create something like that.
We hung trusses on angles. The upstage trusses were on motors and we dead hung the downstage trusses.
We grouped most of our lights in groups of 3. It helped us to create some cool fan effects that duplicated across the stage. We used Opti Tri Pars as our back light wash. Our Colorblast TRXs (w/ narrow lenses) created some nice fanned beams and our Mac 101s gave us some additional flexibility as beams and also a drape wash. We also flew a truss horizontally at the grid to tie the visual of our downstage angles together. It also held a few LED pars. Lastly, we internally lit all the trusses to get that beautiful glow you see.
The largest challenge with this set was hanging and wiring the downstage trusses via a lift (I think its time for more motors...)
Our budget for this set change was $0, so everything in this was re-purposing our gear. A good chunk of the LEDs in this set came from a campus that we suspended temporarily.
This set stayed up for a good part of the spring and a bit into the summer.
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