Pink continued her Beautiful Trauma World Tour with Claypaky Scenius Unico and Mythos 2 fixtures which shined a light on the American singer’s extraordinary talents. ACT Lighting is the exclusive distributor of Claypaky lighting in North America.
The Beautiful Trauma World Tour is Pink’s seventh concert tour and supported her eponymous seventh studio album. The tour began in Phoenix in March 2018 and is scheduled to conclude in Rio in October 2019.
“As with all Pink shows the lighting design needs to be versatile,” said Baz Halpin of Burbank’s silentHOUSE Productions who is the Lighting Designer, Production Designer and Director of the show. “Pink is equal parts rock show, theatre show and aerial cirque show. The fixtures needed to have enough punch and response for the highly-cued rock sections. For the theatrical dance sections, the need for quality of subtle colours and even fields was important, while the aerial numbers needed for the fixtures to create a sufficient light level without ever blinding or dazzling was paramount.”
Halpin obtained 93 Claypaky Scenius Unicos and 118 Claypaky Mythos 2 for the tour from Solotech, which he mounted the Mythos 2 on automated trusses and pods over the stage.
“These were primarily used as aerial beam fixtures for musical dynamics and creating graphic ‘pictures’,” he said. “The Unicos were used for the majority of other needs: key and side lighting of performers, lighting and modelling of scenery and lighting of the aerial performers. The key factors that the Claypaky fixtures afford us were brightness, reliability, versatility and quality.”
Associate Lighting Designer Eric Marchwinski also said: “the toolset of the Unico provided exactly what we need for our application without overcomplicating the feature set. The simplicity of the fixture design helped streamline the programming, and the versatility allowed for a more unified look no matter the placement in the rig. Additionally, the Scenius line has always had the fastest optical train – zoom, iris, shutters – we have ever seen in a profile or spot unit. This opened the door for a lot of interesting musical programming opportunities outside of the typical or more common effects.”
