LOVE, TPi magazine

'An exhilarating kaleidoscope of ear and eye candy that redefines the word 'stunning', LOVE originated through a friendship between Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté and the late George HarrisonBased in London and Nevada... Stage Technologies was contracted to design the components inside and the automation control system. St-Amour is satisfied with the result: “It’s quite complex but it has worked out really well. Stage Technologies played a huge role
in the automation and rigging and they did a great job in the time that they had — less than a year — which is fast for something that’s never been done before! "We can do virtually whatever we want with the trolleys on the tracks and can also use two on the same track at the same time if we need to. In some numbers, we have four trolleys in operation at once, spinning and rotating, flying artists and some enormous scenic elements as well [the trolley winches have a load capacity of 550lbs per winch]. We run 142 axes, which is a lot...'

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This article first appeared in the September 2006 issue of TPi magazine and is reproduced with kind permission of Mondiale Publishing