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Big Apple Circus Steps Right Up

January 4, 2007

Big Apple Circus Steps Right Up To Look Solutions Unique Hazers

Unique Haze at BigLook Solutions’ Unique haze machines are adding atmosphere under the Big Top at the 29th season of the non-profit Big Apple Circus, New York’s original one-ring circus famous for presenting worldclass circus artists in a venue where families sit less than 50 feet from the ring. The circus’s new show, Step Right Up!, is currently playing its annual Damrosch Park engagement at Lincoln Center. The show recreates the sights and sounds of a Gilded Age amusement resort by the sea with its rollicking rides and awesome arcades, boisterous barker and surprising sideshows, beachcombers and bathing beauties, ragtime tunes, novelty numbers and circus carousels of electrifying splendor.

“We’ve had Unique hazers for two years. We use them during the entire two-hour program to haze the Big Top for atmosphere,” explains Big Apple Circus’ John Batz. “I like them a lot; they’re one of the better hazers I’ve worked with.”

Unique Haze at Big Apple CircusBatz likes the water-based operation of the Unique hazers whose minimal fluid consumption makes for maximal impact. “The fluid lasts a long time: I don’t have to change it out every other day,” he reports. “The bottle size is easy to transfer in and out.” Each Unique fluid canister guarantees up to 50 hours of continuous output.

“The temperatures under the Big Top and the weather conditions outside affect how much I have to push the hazers,” Batz continues. “Because we’re in a tent, the moisture in the air dictates how much I have to use them. When it rains, I don’t have to use the Uniques a lot. When it’s dry I do. In either case, they work great. There are no problems with either extreme.”

The Unique hazers offer minimal warm up time, variable output, minimal sound, and DMX 512 control. The haze machines are equipped with an internal timer, efficient fan, and a Haze-Density Control System, which enables an individual profile for a show to be programmed.

The artistic and creative directors for The Big Apple Circus are Paul Binder and Michael Christensen with Guy Simard lighting designer and Todd Rosenthal scenic designer.

The circus’s Lincoln Center engagement is the second stop on its 11-month, 11-city tour, following its world premiere engagement in Washington, D.C. and including stops in Atlanta, Boston and other venues on the East Coast.

Based in Germany, Look Solutions manufactures high performance fog machines, haze machines, mini foggers, accessories and fluids at reasonable prices. Look Solutions USA, located in south-central Pennsylvania, serves customers in the US, Canada and Mexico. For more information, or to request a demo machine for evaluation, visit www.looksolutionsusa.com or call Hunter Totty, Sales Manager, at 1-800-426-4189.

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