TAIT Takes Pink's The Truth About Love Tour to Heart, with Custom-Themed Scenic and Staging Elements

	TAIT designed a custom heart-shaped video screen surround with a scenic finish that was used to frame the LED panels.

Working under the artistic direction of Baz Halpin and Chris Nyfield, TAIT created custom scenic and staging elements designed around Pink's The Truth About Love tour's central theme of love and heartbreak. To ensure a similar performance environment for the artist within the time constraints of the tour, an identical, leapfrogging main stage was replicated for the European leg. Dedicated to providing clients with user-friendly, innovative design, TAIT was elated to learn that Pink's production team, led by Richard Young, was impressed by the quality of TAIT's design, as well as the speed and ease in which all the elements could be put together, the company says.

TAIT designed a custom heart-shaped video screen surround with a scenic finish that was used to frame the LED panels provided by Creative Technology. To enhance the aesthetic quality of the element, TAIT crafted scenic, foam "fleur de lis," positioned on top of the video screen. A decorative cradle was incorporated at the base of the heart-shaped structure. TAIT provided full integration between the three elements, creating one solid scenic structure. With functionality in mind, the element was designed to break down into separate sections for ease in transport. The fleur de lis element easily detaches for use in lower-trim venues.

TAIT also produced four custom, scenic surrounds for the flying LED screens provided by Creative Technology that were positioned alongside the heart-shaped element.

TAIT engineered a custom banner light box with LED lighting effects, which illuminated the words "The Truth About Love." The light box was built into the surround structure and suspended above the stage.

TAIT crafted a scenically-painted, heart-shaped B-stage which contained a hidden pool, filled with glitter. As one of the main gags during the performance, the artist is lowered below the stage surface via a swing and then quickly lifted and spun around, sending glitter out across the audience.

Other elements included: the main had two DS toaster lifts, one DS prop lift, center portal and prop lift, band risers, DS thrust, masking softgoods, layered backdrop, and U-shaped Austrian. A second main stage was also created to leap frog the first for the European leg of the tour.