31 Days Of Plots: Pigeons Playing Ping Pong

Live Design's fourth annual 31 Days Of Plots features one production per day during the month of December 2021, highlighting a different lighting design, from across theatre, concert tours, corporate events, live for broadcast, and more, as we wind down 2021 and head toward the new year.

Day 27 of 31 Days Of Plots 2021 focuses on Manny Newman's lighting design for Pigeons Playing Ping Pong at The Anthem, a music venue in Washington, DC. "The vision for this design was create a light rig that had depth, allowed me to constantly create new looks, and was a pretty easy build," explains Newman. "The signature for this design is the Global Truss Quick Grids. There are six sets of two Quick Grids on the upstage truss. Each set has three Chauvet R1 wash and one Martin Atomic 3K LED Strobe. Since The Anthem in DC is a very large venue we added four more sets of Quick Grids with three Robe LEDBeam 150 and an Atomic 3K LED per set which two sets were on the upstage truss."

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"The other two sets were on the mid stage truss," Newman adds. "This gave us a nice expanded look with more depth and from certain angles it looks like wings to fit the vibe for Pigeons Playing Ping Pong. For the ground package I put 12 Martin Quantum Profiles, four Chauvet R2 Wash as our side wash, and two Chauvet COLORado Solo Batten’s for our stage props. I chose Quantum Profiles because they have precise color mixing and gobo fade which allows me to index through gobos smoothly from scene to scene. The movements are all very smooth with slow rise path so the fixtures never jump and everything is graceful."

Take a peek:

Lighting Gear List

Fixtures provided by: Harford Sound

18 Chauvet R1 Wash

4 Chauvet R2 Wash

2 Chauvet COLORAdo Solo Batten 

12 Martin Quantum Profiles

10 Martin Atomic 3K LED

12 Robe LEDBeam 150

2 Base Haze

Photos without watermark by Kendall McCargo

Photos with watermark by Josh Brick

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