Laura Pausini, Italian Popdiva, on world tour

14 june 2009

Italy - Italian superstar Laura Pausini, whose sell-out World Tour rolled across Europe in the spring and summmer of 2009, toured a massive 10-truck production. XLNT Advanced Technologies CyberHoist motors played a central role in raising and lowering a multitude of video screens and panels.
Production manager Luigi Vallario collaborated with lighting designer Francesco DeCave (www.francescodecave.it) and Pausini’s manager Gabriele Parisi to create the show, in which 100 hoists lifted 30 tonnes of hardware and a large rolling stage.
Supplied by video contractor Event Managements, the multi-screen production dispensed with conventional screen formats, instead deploying a skeleton of eight 2 metre high LED support structures covered with Barcoi MiPix modules.Backing those was a 22 x 8m Technovision NET LED M50 backdrop screen, while four 3 x 2m Barco MiTrix panels performed a wide variety of movements on a semicircular track that curved around to the front of the stage. Content was a blend of specially shot material by video director Gaetano Morbioli and a combination of live i-mag and recorded performance footage.

The rigging system was designed by Luca Tosolini of Italstage, with CyberHoist intelligent chain hoist motors providing the vertical motion control of the LED elements and six DTS custom blinders, and with head rigger Luca Guidolin in charge of the tour rigging team.