From Härnösand to dark side

I set up Tero Saarinen’s “Could You Take Some Of My Weight” for Norrdans in Härnösand. It was one of the easiest gigs forever. Thanks to good crew there and also for Mikki for designing very simple lights. The piece was set on the first day we started to work and programmed the next. Got few full rehearsals and I think that’s it. I think I’m obligated to go back there for the premiere but not too much work anymore.

Tero’s “Next of Kin” opened in Helsinki yesterday. That was not an easy setup. We did’nt have any major technical problems and won the London crew by 5 hours (even when we were outnumbered compared to those lucky union workers).
The hardest thing was that since Tero wanted to change some things and the moving lights were replaced with different type we wanted to give Mikki some extra programming time. So we started on Monday morning at 6 a.m. The plan was to give stage to Mikki at 4 p.m. I think it was around 6 when he got into programming. 16+ hour days are never fun. And since we are on our home stage even I had to get my hands dirty which is definitely not fun for an office rat like me.

Next of Kin is developping technical wise too. Besides new moving lights, new quick release system for the scrim and new midi sync we have gone to version 2.0 with our Robe follow spots!

Ville on SL spot is very pleased to loose the gloves, Marco on SR is not happy with the added tail weight. I think this is not the final product still.

Sorry about the bad image quality. It’s an iPod, Phone and a Revolutionary Internet Device, not a camera…

Edit: In Mikki’s blog you see how to convert Robe ColorSpot 1200 AT  (this time 700) to a follow spot. See the post here