AT FACTORY INTERNATIONAL / AVIVA STUDIOS MANCHESTER, UK
Uli and Thomas went to Manchester to light (the darkest) Dark Noon for another round march 1-7 2024.
The venue is a huge space that fit the piece very well, newly build and well sound proofed. What looked like an arena turned out to function great as a theatre space. Facing the fact that new institutions nowadays invest in LED lighting we had some problems with our completely analogue approach with mainly tungsten Fresnel 1kw and 5kw fixtures, especially because the rental company had not sent any spare bulbs and those turned out to be hard to find in Manchester.
Great fun with the beautiful ensemble from South Africa: Thulani, Bongani, Joe, Barileng, Mandla, Siya and Kaygee.
And the Fix and Foxi team with TUE, ANNETTE, SVANTE AND CLARA!
Anyone who has handled white dance marley at some point may have noticed that the material is tending to change color into something greyish after a while. We´ve made numerous attempts to clean that away and it normally works quite well. Here is how it´s been done.
We rent a floor polish /cleaning machine with different cleaning pouches and a vacuum cleaner for water. For spots and marks a good rough cleaning sponge works best together with VIM, Natron or spirit.
Different chemicals work for a few different purposes:
Natron / baking powder: pour out some powder and rub it in gently with some water and a sponge on e g spots from shoes or tape stains.
CIF / VIM (kitchen and bathroom cleaning, contains rubbing particles): Same as natron, but sometimes better on shoes stains. Try out.
If someone for some reason used baby powder on your floor the only way to take it off is stain remover (for bathroom, not the same as cif/vim) or products used for grease removal (degreasing) on e g cars. (Turtle has such a product) Svenska: Bilavfettning eller Kalkborttagning.
Red Spirit / alcohol : tape stains, mix in with cleaning water in machine.
Do the cleaning in this order: A scrub with the ,machine to clean off the worst dirt, use warm water and universal cleaning agent. Take off the water immediately every 2-3 meters with the vacuum. Then scrub the stains with a sponge and a suitable chemical, natron or vim/cif/kitchen surface cleaner. The go another round with the machine. Now the floor should be clean enough. Clean it manually with warm water and floor sweeper, let dry, ready!
If you want to clean a black marley beware of the polishing products, those may alter the floors color to something greyish that eventually may get black again but will take a while.
Tanya och Uli var ute i 3 veckor med Room X i Jokkmokk, Karlstad och Gävle i Riksteaterns regi. Med var även nästan alla skånska verk från den ursprungliga upplagan 2018 och många nya jättespännande ´”lokala” verk. Kollegorna från Riks var Karin (scenmästare), Niklas(ljud och video) och Andreas (lastbilskörning och ljus).
just like in 2019 the whole Imulto Crew went to Vordningborg in Denmark to technically support this year´’s WAVES theatre and performance festival. The crew was big, eager and competent:
Thomas, Imre, Björn, Joel, Filip, Emanuel, Uli, David came from Malmö.
Kroppsklubben och tekniker Tanya har varit en sväng i Ljusdal med FOF – Föreställningen om fittan/snippan och spelat två föreställningar för skolklasser.
Imulto ideell förening announes the the ownership of newly emerged company Imulto AB. YEHY!
Imulto AB will do the main part of Imulto`s technical support work towards the entertainment industry including technical coordination for performance and music projects, light and sound design and stage technology in general.
