Lighting supply and build
Bend the Air National Finals 2026
Aerial and acrobatic routines on the Sunshine Coast. Krank'd supplied and built the lighting for Just Acrobatics at the Bend the Air National Finals in January 2026.
Explore the production- When
- 13 to 18 January 2026
- For
- Just Acrobatics
- Where
- Flinders Performance Centre, Buderim
The full lighting rig framing the finals stage.
The national finals in Buderim
Bend the Air's National Finals brought competitors to the Flinders Performance Centre at Matthew Flinders Anglican College from 13 to 18 January 2026. The Buderim venue hosted the aerial, acrobatics and circus competition programme, with performers moving between floor work and apparatus suspended above the stage.
The performance space is part of the event's appeal: its high ceiling and theatre facilities allow aerial routines to occupy the full height of the room. The finals bring together the athletic and artistic sides of these disciplines in front of an audience.
A rig for performance above the stage
Working for Just Acrobatics, Krank'd supplied and built the lighting package using ACME CM-700Z and AECO 5 fixtures. This continued our involvement with Bend the Air after the previous year's National Finals and Gala.
The CM-700Z wash fixtures and AECO 5 profiles brought both broader colour coverage and more defined light to the package. For aerial performance, the area in view extends from the floor to the apparatus overhead. Building the rig around the performance venue connected those two scales for a programme of individual routines and competition appearances.
Equipment on this production
Inside the rig.
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