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Lighting Designer
Don Holder
Associate Lighting Designer
Jane Chan
Celia Chen (Substitute)
Neil Qiu (Substitute)
Assistant Lighting Designer
Sarah Woods
Design Team Swing
Zaid Dawsari
Production Electrician
Ron Schweir
Production Translators
Melody Lo & Diana Chiu
About the Project:The Great Qin is a new cultural tourism project in Xi’an, China. It depicts the story of Emperor Qin’s unification of the seven states of China in 221 BC over the course of six acts. The physical space of the production occupies a 600 foot long, by 100 foot wide venue with 38 overstage electrics, six lighting ladders that track the entire distance of the space (US/DS), and an audience riser that rolls from one end of the space to the other.
The Lighting:The lighting rig consists of 580 moving lights and thousands of conventional channels totaling over 44,000 parameters; this was all controlled by an ETC Eos system comprising of two Apex RPUs and two Apex 10 control consoles. We utilized Blacktrax for two of the six acts, mostly to be able to track the complex flight choreography. All show lighting was controlled by the Eos console system, programmed by me. Due to the size of the show, we utilized Augment3D and added all ladder positions in 3D space in order to be able to quickly recall lights into place.
Takeaways:As my second international project, getting to travel was super awesome, especially being out of the country for 6 months, we were able to do so much exploration of China, Hong Kong, and Korea. The project had a TON of technology at play and wrangling it all was no small task. Due to the scale of the project, sometimes there would be moments of “hurry up and wait” and at other times, there was a massive amount of work to do in a super small time span. Getting to discover the differences in production practices accross cultures was very exciting to me, and being able to see so much Chinese theater was great, as it gave me a taste of the projects that often get produced. Trying to tech a show on an active construction site definitely wasn’t easy. The project came together in the end and we created something really quite amazing!
The Great Qin Lighting Team