Roland Kaiser’s 2018/19 tour of arenas in Germany, Austria and Switzerland launched on 15 November in the SACHSEN Arena in Riesa. The last of the 21 shows took place on 24 March 2019 in Dortmund’s Westfalenhalle.
Responsible for the rigging and kinetics of the shows was gruppe20 Veranstaltungstechnik of Augsburg. Among the loads requiring moving were six G-LEC walls 2 x 2 metres in area, each with a Robe MegaPointe, and two 2 x 4 metre G-LEC walls, each with two Robe MegaPointes. The total weight per G-LEC wall amounted in some cases therefore to 140 kilos. The positioning was performed using sixteen VMK-S 250-33, sixteen V-Motion 30, and four NDB6, chain hoists von Movecat. These were controlled by a Movecat iMotion Expert T II console.
“This was an exciting and lavish C1 production, in which we took full advantage of the Movecat system,” related Klaus Mayer of gruppe20. Operator Dominik Sonntag added, with a wink; “The C1 movements involved almost as many cues as the light show.”
For the rigging, under the direction of Boris Zernikow, an additional forty-seven D8+ drives in the 0.32 t, 0.5 t and 1t weight categories as well as single and two ton D8 hoists were used. The Roland Kaiser shows involved a total rigging load of around 20 tons.
Caption: Roland Kaiser (Photo: copyright Simon Kropp)
