Sydney Festival

TDC was proud to be involved in a number of Sydney Festival activities over the summer holiday period. Festival First Night at Martin Place with Movers and Shakers – a ground-breaking dance event – was a particular highlight.

Featuring Australia’s leading dance companies alongside a range of dance associations and community groups, Movers and Shakers was the centrepiece dance event for the evening.

Audiences were thrilled by non-stop, high octane moves from over 300 dancers on a custom-built five-storey-high stage. Works were interspersed with breath-taking visuals mixed live by Sydney’s finest VJs.

Video played a key part in the success of this amazing experience.

TDC projected onto the 16.8m x 12.6m projection surface using the highest powered 3 chip DLP projectors in the country. The projectors were installed 9m from the ground with system control contained within the projection tower to ensure full signal integrity. The projection tower was set 9m off axis to minimise sightline impacts. TDC was able to achieve this due to system engineering and warping content.
Five broadcast cameras were mixed via a camera engineering system that sat 5m off the ground. Cameras were positioned throughout the Martin Place precinct to take advantage of stage, podium and crowd shots. The mixed camera program signals and a VJ computer system were routed through to a Folsom Encore Presentation System to 3 destinations including the main projection system and the wall of The Commonwealth Bank building.

The entire system was designed using digital signals from all source devices through the switching systems and out to the projectors.