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The Visual act installation team has been in Moscow for the installation of ten Advanced Stage Wagons for the Russian Company MOSSIB as part of their renovation project of the Great Hall within the Kremlin Palace.

Visual act Advanced Wagons takes over the Great Hall in the Kremlin Palace.

The very impressive stage of the Great Hall in the Kremlin Palace now has ten Visual act Advanced Wagons which will be used for scenery transportation during scene changes and artistic movement of scenery during performances.

When Visual act built the ten stage wagons at their workshop in Stockholm things began to get a bit congested as our floor space was taken up with flight cases, wagon frames and drive units, but when we arrived at the Stage of the Great Hall, we realized that space was not going to be a problem.

The Visual act installation team had a fantastic time in Moscow and is very much looking forward to returning soon to provide training for the theatre personnel.

The 14th International Specialized Exhibition «Music Moscow 2008» is held 9-12 October in Moscow, KVC “Sokol’niki”

Visual act will attend this year’s fair-trade together with Sistema. You can find us in Pavilion#3 Stand#03 were we will present the Visual act Stage Wagon System.

We would be happy to arrange a private meeting and/or product presentation. Send us your preferred date and time, should you be interested.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you require further information.

If you require further information about Sistema or the exhibition please follow the links below:

http://www.musicmoscow.com/

http://www.sistema.sar.ru/

In co-operation with the Russian Company, MOSSIB, Visual act will deliver 10 advanced stage wagons for use in the Kremlin Palace Theatre in October 2008 as part of the reconstruction and renovation of the Great Audience Hall. 

Each wagon incorporates two of our standard drive units, two battery packs, a control cabinet, an amplifier cabinet and the navigation laser. The mid section of the wagon that houses the drive units can be raised and lowered manually which offers more stability when the scenery arrives at the parking position, also when the drive units are off the floor the wagon can easily be rolled manually into storage.

Visual act Advanced Stage Wagons in the Kremlin Palace Theatre

The navigation laser is positioned in the center of the wagon under the sturdy floor base, thanks to a clever wagon design the laser can still ‘see’ where it is going through slits in the upper mid section of the frame. The public will never see how the wagon magically transports itself around the stage.

There are also load bearing sections on the floor of the frame which have a known footprint and are intended to mate with scenery within the theatre thus providing maximum stability and support from our wagons.

Each wagon will be able to easily transport 1500kg of scenery at a speed of 1 Metre per second with an accuracy of +/- 5mm. Stage Control System.

The Visual act installation team are looking forward to a successful installation at the prestigious Kremlin Palace this month.

There is something unique with the Orchestra in the Edderkoppen theatres production of ‘The sound of Music’, it has managed to get in on the act with the help of Visual act. Normally the orchestra is hidden in the pit, heard but not seen, but the orchestra in this production of ‘The Sound of Music’ is suspended in the air above the stage and moves around in time to the music.

Six special motorized platforms provided by Visual act are placed around the stage and on each platform there are musicians from the orchestra. The platforms can be moved up and down in synchronisation with the music, from stage level to over three metres height in a circular arc.

The effect of the flying Orchestra which is ‘conducted’ by Maria during the classic ‘Doh a Deer’ has led critics to describe the show as ‘The Sound of Success’.

The Circus concert hall in Stockholms Djurgården plays host to a hilarious and thought provoking show with three of Swedens top comediens, Uggla, Rheborg and Ulveson.

Visual act provide all of the stage automation for the show which utilises our 3D fly system to move large projector screens. The standard Visual act Stage Control System is used for the movement of other large projector screens and side screens.

The show also utilises a Visual act Analog Stage Wagon. This wagon is less complicated than our advanced wagon, but very simple to operate and a great deal cheaper. The wagon is controlled by one operator with a remote control and can move 1500kg.

With the analog wagon the operator can move the wagon smoothly around the stage and perform three different types of rotations.

The wagon had two different ‘costumes’ during the show which were easily changed backstage between numbers. The Visual act Analog Wagon is a perfect solution to low cost horizontal stage automation.

We will be in room “Målarsalen” on stand “M2″.
This year, NOTT will take place May 29 to June 1 at “Riksteatern” in Hallunda, south of Stockholm.

Visual act have provided the Russian company Sistema with a large scale Analog Wagon for the transport of their orchestra.

The wagon uses four drive units instead of the standard two and can move more than two tonnes of equipment in a smooth controlled manner. The wagon is controlled by one operator with a simple remote control box.

Visual act are proud to say that thanks to the well built robust modular design of this system, it was fully installed and tested by the Russian company Sistema without the help from any Visual act installation team.

Visual act has delivered the Ballet Floor for Oslo’s New Opera House along with a winch system for its storage and installation. The 16 x 16 meter ballet floor is partitioned into four sections that, when not in use, are hoisted up into a storage position in the fly tower directly over the stage area.  Each section is attached to a double winch that moves the floor from a horizontal position, through a sequence of smooth synchronized transitions, to the final vertical park position.

Ballet Floor in motion

With the help of a portable remote control radio unit, the winches operate the entire ballet floor. With only two technicians, the floor can be changed from Stage to Ballet or vice versa in a short period of time.  Each floor can be operated individually and the speed of movement is determined by the operating stage technician, with the help of the remote control joystick.

The floor units are hung by chains from two lifting beams. The cables from the double winch are threaded individually through two pulleys on the beam and fixed to an adjustable anchor point on the ground. Six chains are attached to the centre positions and two are attached to the edge of the section. The synchronization of movements between the two points enable horizontal to vertical transition.

The floor units get their structural strength from a composite made of epoxy and glass fiber on a Diviny cell core.  Plywood is mounted with damping rubber on top of the core.  The surface finish is a cork mat which gives even more damping. After assembly a dance carpet is laid on top.  This gives the opportunity to alternate color and structure of the floor without changing the characteristics.

The winches are powered by servo motors and controlled by a drive.  An industrial computer is mounted in a central cabinet and communicates with the drives by Profibus.  The software is a stand-alone version of Visual act Stage Control System.

When the ballet floor sections are lowered into place on the stage floor, the chains are removed and the lifting beams are returned to the storage position in the fly tower.  The edges of the sections are then joined with pneumatic cylinders to provide a smooth and even dance surface.

During installation at The Roma theatre.

The Roma Musical theatre in Warsaw have been enjoying great success with their production of Sir Andrew Lloyd-Webbers “Phantom of the Opera” and Visual act were happy to help with their most dangerous and daring special effect to date.

For anybody who has not seen ‘Phantom of the Opera’, there must be a few left out there, we must explain that there is a critical scene in the musical that involves a chandelier falling from the roof of the theatre and crashing onto the stage.

Visual act provided the theatre with a two winch system that suspends the chandelier from above the audience. At the appropriate moment the Visual act Control System activates the winches in a synchronous movement that ‘drives’ the chandelier from the roof to the stage.

All sounds very technical, but we assure you that the chandelier shown above is about the same size as a Volkswagen and when it falls from the roof and explodes onto the stage, the screams from the audience in the front rows let me know that this effect is a great success.