LDI 2011 Awards Announced:

Wally Russel Lifetime Achievement Award

2011 Wally Russell Lifetime Achievement Award: Rusty Brutsché, PRG




Best Booth Awards

Best Large Booth: Chauvet	Best Small Booth: Performance Truss Fabrication
Best Creative Use of Light: Clay Paky	Best Product Presentation: Christie Digital

Debuting Product Awards:

Staging/rigging: Next One Create for the Eco Live System Rising Sun: solar-energy charged modular battery road cases

Special effects: Firelinx Aegis wireless pyro control system from Birket Engineering

Sound: Green-Go advanced digital multi-channel intercom system by ELC Lighting

Widget: City Theatrical’s SHOW DMX SHOW BABY wireless Transceiver

Projection: Dataton Watchout Version 5

Lighting (tie): Clay Paky Alpha Spot QWO 800 and PRG Best Boy 4000 Spot

Lighting, honorable mention: Martin Professional for the AURA compact LED moving head wash light

Best Green Product Award (sponsored by Showman Fabricators): ArcSystem house light manufactured by GDS.


Craig Redden Awards for Excellence in Lighting Design

The Redden Award for Excellence in Lighting Design In memory of Craig Redden, sponsored by Epic Production Technologies:

Theatre: Etienne Boucher (TOTEM, Cirque du Soleil; The Ring Cycle at The Metropolitan Opera with Robert Lepage)

Concerts: Butch Allen (Kelly Clarkson, Gwen Stefani, Eagles, Metallica, Usher, NKOTB, Jennifer Hudson, America’s Got Talent Live, Dancing With The Stars Live, Nickelback, No Doubt, Black Keys, Glee)

Corporate/Events: Available Light: Steven Rosen and Ted Mather (Connecticut Science Center in Hartford, Cleveland Museum of Natural History).


PLASA Members Choice Awards

Gadget Category: Apollo Design Technology’s Wrenchmate 2

Equipment Category (tie): LightConverse 3D Show Platform Version 52 and ETC Source Four® Fresnel


Thank you to the folks who helped make the LDI2011 Awards event possible, including LDI premier partner Chauvet, as well as Apex Stages, MegaSystems, Epic Production Technologies, and Showman Fabricators.

Save the Date for LDI 2012, Las Vegas, NV:

Professional Training Dates

Backstage Las Vegas	October 15 - 17, 2012
LDInstitute™	October 15 - 21, 2012
Live Design Projection Master Classes	October 17 - 18, 2012
LDInnovation and Technology Conference	October 18 - 21, 2012
Exhibit Hall	October 19 - 21, 2012