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Jody Chiang farewell shows with Robe Pointes

Taiwanese singer Jody Chiang said farewell to fans after a 34 year career which has produced 60 albums and seen her win eight Golden Melody Awards. Twenty-six concerts were staged at the Taipei Arena in the Songshan District of Taipei and the Kaohsiung Arena in Zuoying District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Jody Chiang’s regular lighting designer since 2013, Tokyo based Mitsumasa Hayashi, was asked to create lighting for the occasion. He worked closely with set designer Fion Cheng and a team of producers from the Young Hope Corporation in Taiwan.

Hayashi’s main effects lights were 46 x Robe Pointes. The set started as a ‘bare stage’ and had a curved theme that included a long runway snaking out into the audience, staircases and various hydraulic platforms which rose out of the stage throughout the show.

A large arched upstage truss dominated the general stage architecture, complemented by a large arched HD LED screen upstage, which was supported by two side LED screens for IMAG. Out above the audience, 368 paper lanterns were suspended in the celling as part of the set dressing.

Twenty-four fixtures were rigged on the arch with another 22 on the floor upstage, allowing Hayashi to frame Jody Chiang in their beams when stage-centre or when working the catwalk, utilising multiple effects like gobos, colour and prisms to accentuate her presence.

Other lights on the rig included VariLite VL3500 Wash and VL3000 Spot, a number of other moving lights, 9-lite blinders and Xenon Pin spots from Ushio lighting. All the lighting was controlled via a Compulite Vector console, supplied by rental company Engineering Impact Taiwan Corp., together with the rest of the lighting equipment.

Working alongside Hayashi in Taiwan were his FOH team from Mula Lighting director Yoshinori Yamamoto, lighting programmer Takeshi Nakanishi, moving light operator Lee Kyungmin, operator Toshiyuki Nakamura and lighting systems engineer Kazuyoshi Kondo.

(Photos: Toshihiro Nakaigawa)

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