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Adelaide Festival Centre turns to Anolis for new LED house lighting

Two venues at Adelaide Festival Centre (AFC), a multi-purpose arts centre complex, have been equipped with new Anolis LED house lighting - featuring over 200 fixtures from the manufacturer’s Ambiane range. This resulted in an approximately 50-percent power reduction in the 2,000-capacity Festival Theatre and Dunstan Playhouse, which seats 590.

AFC’s head of technical and production, Nathan Luscombe, explains that the original 1973 house lighting installation was still in service, consisting primarily of PAR 56s and other downlights - all incandescent - which after fifty years or more of service needed replacing. The time had arrived to transition to an LED solution, which is also a government-driven initiative.

“Professional high-grade dimming was high on our list of requirements for the new lighting”, says Luscombe who also pushed hard for AFC’s environmental/architectural lighting to be DMX or DMX-over-Ethernet controlled, learning from their experience at Her Majesty’s Theatre, another venue in Adelaide also run by the AFC, that this would be technically beneficial.

He also wanted colour changing lights as these opened numerous imaginative possibilities, including bespoke lighting of the venue for showcases, special occasions and immersive moments. Together with the DMX/Ethernet control options, this would also allow incoming productions to integrate the house lighting into their own systems if desired.

The new lighting schemes were designed by Eddie Galak from Anolis’s Australian distributor Jands, who developed an aesthetic that met the client’s requirements, together with a final proposal and extensive modelling. Another must was that the signature white walk-in look should be 3,200K, a bit cooler than standard. However, they were keen to replicate the previous house lighting look, and Ambiane’s tuneable whites were another plus for choosing Anolis, according to Luscombe.

The individual fixture breakdown includes twelve Anolis Ambiane XP56 Recessed units with 45° lenses; fifty-six Ambiane XP56 Recessed luminaires - thirty-six with 45° and twenty with 60° lenses RGBW (3,200 K); ninety-three Ambiane MP111s - seventy-five Recessed with 80° lenses and eighteen Recessed with 60° lenses, all RGBW (3,200 K) and with Custom RAL Trim; and thirty-six Ambiane MP111 Surface Mount 60° lensed RGBWs (also 3,200 K). 

A combination of these luminaires is used across both venues. In Festival Theatre, they are installed in multiple positions - in the ceiling, under the bridges, recessed on the balconies, under the boxes and in up/down configurations grazing along the walls. The scalloped side column covers were replaced as part of the general room refurbishment and interior upgrade, and the new Anolis fixtures are mounted in the up and down positions complete with bespoke covers for heritage compliance. In Dunstan Playhouse, the new fixtures are installed on five different levels and under the balcony, also retrofitted into the previous lighting spaces.

Lighting control for these two venues is through ETC Paradigm. The lights are on their own networks but also can be hooked into a production lighting network/console. The new lighting installation was completed by ITE, who have previously worked with Galak at Llewellyn Hall in Canberra.

(Photos: Adelaide Festival Centre/Ben Clark Imagery)

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