The safety of the equipment in your performance space is critical. If your equipment isn’t safe, you aren’t safe. Below we outline a few questions to help understand why having a rigging inspection completed is necessary to ensure the well-being of everyone involved. Rigging Inspection FAQs Why is a rigging inspection necessary? Rigging inspections ensure […]
Flyhouse Projects
30 Seconds in the Shop (Performer Flying Training)
Most days are normal (and busy) in the Flyhouse shop. Fabricate, rinse and repeat. On certain days, theater groups come in and test out our performer flying Ziplifts before they use them in a show. Today one of those days. Lookingglass Theater in conjunction with The Actor’s Gymnasium trained on our system for an upcoming touring show in Atlanta.
[Photo] Did You Know…
Fourth Presbyterian Church (Chicago) was founded in 1871 and moved to its existing location on Michigan Avenue in 1912. Flyhouse provided assistance on a project that put the church in the local record books.
30 Seconds in the Shop [Tao-line Project]
When you have a project to test, you call in the staff circus arts expert to test it. Today with 30 Seconds in the Shop, we hoist up our latest project and spin it around.
Did You Know…
As part of a year-long sculpture installation piece at Garfield Park Conservatory entitled “solarise: a sea of all colors,” Flyhouse installed “Floresence” in the Conservatory’s Show House. The installation runs through September 22, 2016.
Uniqlo Lighting Hoist System
Uniqlo is a Japanese casual fashion retailer with an avid following. Being new to Chicago, Uniqlo opened a 60,000-square-foot, three-level store on Chicago’s famed Michigan Avenue in the fall of 2015; the largest of other U.S. locations except for the flagship Fifth Avenue store in New York. For the new store, Uniqlo looked to install five ceiling light […]
