Oh what fun it’s been to work with the Philadelphia Ballet on a cool effect for their current production of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker. In the final scene of the ballet, the children fly away from the Land of Sweets in a walnut boat, waving to their new friends as curtain falls. The boat […]
Solutions at Sea
It’s cruise season for Flyhouse! We service the hoists on nine Celebrity Cruises and four Costa Cruises ships every six months, with regular service all ships in either spring or fall. This round for Celebrity, we’re thrilled to bring back training for their aerial performers and technicians. With that, it’s officially a return to normal […]
Sky Fall
Chicago’s Griffin Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) debuted a new exhibit this weekend, 007 Science: Inventing the World of James Bond. To help kick off the exhibit, Flyhouse partnered with C5, a Chicago-based performer flying company. The operation? Support a visual flying effect for MSI’s 44th Annual Columbian Ball, which included a special highlight […]
On the Catwalk
The Flyhouse team recently returned to Chicago Shakespeare Theater to help provide a unique flying effect for their current performance of Henry V. Our conversations began over the summer with the theater’s technical team about how to incorporate this flying effect into their upcoming production. Knowing the space in this venue’s catwalks can be challenging, and always mindful of […]
Testing, Testing
At Flyhouse, the products we recommend come from our professional field experience. And when no out-of-the-box solution is available, our team of in-house engineers develops its own. Every custom Flyhouse product we create brings about equally custom and challenging testing protocols. Recently, a custom challenge passed through our shop involving our new zero-fleet point hoist, […]
That’s a Wrap!
Two years after we first arrived on campus, our project with Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music has come to a close. The university’s 1,460 seat The Musical Arts Center (MAC) has been compared to New York’s Metropolitan Opera, and now boasts a Flyhouse-updated rigging system.
