Stage Lighting Part 2: Equipment & Accessories

Instruments that light up the house where the audience sits; dimmable for fading

Light that is used for building, cleaning, or any other type of work other than performing

highly efficient stage spotlights with a lens shaped like an ellipsoid; also called a Leko

A stage spotlight with a "stepped" lens, named for the French physicist who invented it

A flood light with a parabolic aluminized reflector

Lighting location on pipes/bars above the stage; called 1st, 2nd, and 3rd or 4th

Lighting accessory that is used to attach an instrument to an electric batten or pipe

Lighting accessory made of wire rope, used to keep a lighting instrument from falling of the clamp becomes loose

A high-wattage, long-range lighting instrument used to follow moving objects on stage

Light-weight, portable t-shaped device for hanging lighting instruments offstage

Thin metal cut-out used with an ellipsoidal instrument to project a pattern on a curtain, wall, or other surface, ex. stars or snowflakes

Square metal holders that are used to keep gels in place on a lighting instrument

Paper-thin plastic filters used in color frames to create colored lights on stage

Device that holds all the switches and sliders for a light system

One of several screens of the monitors of the switchboard, such as Live Playback or Patch