Rigging and Flying
[photo above: Flying lines at Radio City Music Hall] 
Relevant pages on Theatrecrafts.com
- Counterweight Systems
- Glossary of Terms - Rigging
- Old Man Musings – Spanning a career in terms of truss
- Performer Flying
Classic Gear: Counterweight Flying (October 2018)
[External Website]
From Lighting & Sound International
Rigging Call - Lighting & Sound International (under construction)
Documents
Unusual Rigging
Unusual Rigging is Simply the Best for new Tina Turner musical at the Aldwych (May 2018)
[External Website]
Parting the Red Sea or walking on Water? Anything is possible for The Prince of Egypt with Unusual Rigging (March 2020)
[External Website]
Unusual Rigging carries out essential maintenance at the Royal Albert Hall ahead of post-COVID re-opening (July 2020)
[External Website]
Unusual Rigging completes first phase of refurbishment work at London’s Adelphi Theatre (March 2021)
[External Website]
Amazon Shop
2015
Nobody Looks Up: The History of the Counterweight Rigging System: 1500 to 1925
Buy at
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Nobody Looks Up: The History of the Counterweight Rigging System: 1500 to 1925
Buy at
Amazon UK
Amazon US
External Links
Access Equipment
- Aluminium Access Products Tallescope manufacturers [UK]
Associations
- ABTTAC Automation Committee - Association of British Theatre Technicians [UK]
Companies
- Absolute Motion Control [London]
- Broadweigh Portable wireless load monitoring [UK]
- Motor-Stage Automation [Denmark]
- PRG Scenic Rigging & Automation [USA]
- Specialised Stage Engineering (SSE) Entertainment Rigging [Australia]
- Unusual Rigging Rigging, suspension and automation [London, UK]
Discussion Forums
- Podcast: Theatrewolf History and Innovation in a wide range of technical theatre areas
Equipment
- Flint Hire & Supply [UK]
- Ironclad Performance Work Gloves [Los Angeles, CA, USA]
- Pockit Utility holsters & accessories for your tools [USA]
- Setwear Gloves, belts, bags [CA, USA] Flightcases / Touring >> 3D Flight Cases Professional UK flight case manufacturers [UK] Flightcases / Touring >> BCS Manufacturing Flightcases Flightcases / Touring >> Packhorse Flightcases [Peterborough, UK]
Health & Safety
- Health & Safety Executive [UK]
- Online Sign Free Printable Safety Sign Maker
Jobs
- Automation London Theatre Automation & Motion Control jobs [London, UK]
Manufacturers
Practitioners
- Theater Art Life - Andrew Mudie (Rigger)
- Theater Art Life - James Busby (Rigger)
- Theater Art Life - Tora La Rosa (Rigger)
Resources
- Animated Knots [USA]
- Doodsons Entertainment Public Liability Insurance etc. [UK]
- Multipoint Suspension - not as easy as it seems Essential reading!
- Podcast: Circuit & Gear - Scenic Automation
- Riggers Page Information & Resources [USA]
Software
- Spikemark Scenic Automation & Visualisation
Suppliers
- Bickers Lifting Lodestar & Hoist Stagemaker dealers [East England, UK]
- BJ Hardware Scenic and Ironmongery [London, UK]
- Cablenet Tension wire grid from Slingco [UK]
- Chabuki Kabuki Drop Mechanism [USA]
- Doughty Engineering [UK/USA]
- Exhibit and Display Truss [Pickering, Ontario, Canada]
- Flints Theatrical Chandlers Tools and Supplies [London, UK]
- Frameset Modular Scenic Backdrops & Projection Surfaces [UK]
- Glantre Engineering Ltd [Berkshire, UK]
- H&H Specialities Drapes, Curtain Tracks [CA. USA]
- Heightec Equipment for working at height and rescue [Cumbria, UK]
- https://www.showtex.com/en/products/hardware/roll-reveal-systems/hispeed-reveal Hi-Speed Cloth Reveal [Belgium / International]
- James Thomas Engineering
- JR Clancy Rigging, suspension and automation [NY, USA]
- LTM / Lift Turn Move Lifting Equipment [UK]
- Lyon Equipment Personal fall-protection & safety [Cumbria, UK]
- Manila Cordage Company Ropes [Phillipines]
- National Access & Rescue Centre (NARC) [Cumbria, UK]
- Nicopress Compression sleeves for wire rope and tools
- OPTI Kinetics Truss
- Peter Albrecht Hoists & Rigging Systems [USA]
- Sapsis Rigging [USA]
- Secoa Rigging [USA]
- Sico Inc. Folding stages and tables [UK]
- StageDex (by Prolyte) Staging System
- Stagelam Flooring for stages
- The Crosby Group Lifting and rigging accessories including Crosby Clips
- TMB Electrical. lighting and rigging equipment
- Total Solutions Group Trussing & Rigging [Birmingham, UK]
- Triple E Curtain tracks and entertainment engineering solutions [UK]
- Wire Rope Direct [UK ]
Unions / Associations
- AAPTLE Alliance of Associations & Professionals in Theatre and Live Events [UK]
- ABTT (Association of British Theatre Technicians) Training, Advice, Membership [London, UK]
- Actors Equity [American actors and stage managers] [USA]
- ALIA Australasian Lighting Industry Association [Australasia]
- LPA Live Performance Australia
- PLASA UK Professional Lighting & Sound Association [UK]
- USITT United States Institute for Theatre Technology [USA]
Video Resources
- Backstage at the Royal Opera House - The Opera Machine Full access to 21 cameras backstage for Act III of the Ring Cycle