Two old-school theater seats sit in the lobby of the JK Design Group in North Hills, California. Marked as rows “J” and “K” they are more than cute props. They serve as a tangible reminder of the strong theatrical roots shared by the company’s founders Edward Kaye and Jay Winters. Those roots...
“Theaters are terribly complicated spaces,” says Josephine Marquez. As ETC’s National Specifications Manager, and as a long-time consultant in the industry, she would know. I sat down with Marquez to talk about the process and the pitfalls of building a performance venue. The following interview...
Behind the onstage lighting magic of Broadway’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, there are a lot of Magic Sheets. In this post, Eos programmer Marc Polimeni talks about building the show file.
ETC’S Southern California reps, Warren Mays and Tony Stefani of MPA Lighting and Controls are partial to musical analogies. Outside their day jobs as ETC’s most prolific sales team in North America, both play in local bands—Mays on guitar and vocals, Stefani on drums—including the Irish fusion...
New York based programmer Zak Al-Alami is the Lighting Director at Jazz at Lincoln Center and Arc3 Design. He recently stopped by the ETC video studio to talk us through his process of busking for concerts and other live performances.
Outreach is at the heart of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. For nearly 60 years, the company has introduced communities to modern dance and inspired people all over the world. The Ailey Company has been responsible for sparking a new love for the arts and launching the dreams of...
Part III: Revelations from the road: touring with Alvin Ailey
In March 2014, Mathias Wolf joined the Research & Development department at ETC GmbH in Holzkirchen, Germany, where he spent the following 18 months working as an intern. Mathias has since returned to the university, to study electrical engineering and information technology, and he is currently...
Sometimes chance encounters turn into lifelong friendships and so it was for a young Jeff Ravitz. In the late ‘70s he was working with the Chicago band Styx and they had a show in Madison’s Civic Center. While he was setting up his front of house consoles—a standard two-scene preset linked to a...
