October 18-20, 2010
LDI 2010 gets on the road with Backstage Las Vegas, an insider’s look at what’s happening in Las Vegas, home to some of the most challenging applications for cutting-edge entertainment design and technology. Go behind the scenes to meet the creative and technical teams that make it all possible—and LDI is pleased to announce a new collaboration with the Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas… another great opportunity to network with industry professionals!

Backstage Platinum Plus (All three Days) - $1,495
Backstage (Tuesday and Wednesday) - $1,400
Backstage (Tuesday Only) - $700
Backstage (Wednesday Only) - $700
**Backstage Platinum includes an LDI Innovation & Technology Conference badge ($695 value/$825 after 9/17)

Monday, October 18:  6:00pm-Midnight

6:00pm: Backstage orientation meeting at Las Vegas Convention Center
6:30pm: Bus leaves Convention Center
7:00pm-11:30pm: A Las Vegas-style dinner followed by a performance of Le Rêve, Franco Dragon’s water spectacular now celebrating its fifth anniversary! Updated lighting and technology frame the breathtaking performances in an intimate aqua theater-in-the-round, featuring aerial acrobatics, provocative choreography, and artistic athleticism in an extraordinary world where dreams swim in the air and dance on water.

Tuesday, October 19: Noon-Midnight
Bus leaves the convention center at 12-noon sharp!

VIVA ELVIS!, photo credit: Julie Aucoin

The first full day of Backstage Las Vegas 2010 encompasses lunch and a tour of the 4,000-capacity venue, The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel, designed by Montreal-based architectural firm ScenoPlus to accommodate a wide mix of events from concerts to beyond, with its cutting-edge gear provided by Solotech. Plus a backstage tour of the aqua theatre for Le Rêve at The Wynn Resort, a visit to a new Las Vegas club, dinner and a performance of VIVA ELVIS!, Cirque du Soleil’s newest resident show in Las Vegas.. and The King is certainly in the house in this rock’n roll tribute designed by Mark Fisher (sets), Marc Brickman (lighting), Stefano Canulli (costumes), Ivan Dudynsky (image content designer), Jonathan Deans (sound).  Please note that Cirque du Soleil does not receive any of the proceeds outside the ticket sales gained from this package offering.


Wednesday, October 20: 9:00am-7:00pm
Bus leaves the convention center at 9:00am sharp!
The Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas Experience at LDI
The Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas is opening its doors for the first time to outside visitors as part of LDI’s Backstage Las Vegas. Over 150 students have shared in the SILV experience, with Las Vegas as its “classroom” with a growing cadre of industry friends, both in Vegas and around the world, who willingly share with SILV in their mantra of “It’s all about the Experience.”

LDI participants with SILV will begin the day with the SILV staff for breakfast and orientation for the charges day ahead of them. Then they will travel by bus through a sampler of SILV:

• Silver States Wire Rope: owner/brothers Andrew and Peter Rogers are riggers par excellence and Silver States is the rigging supplier for Cirque du Soleil’s resident and touring shows for acrobatic, automated and theatrical rigging. Their class will introduce the most critical aspects of rigging, fall arrest and safety. www.sswr.net

• AES (Advanced Entertainment Services): will deliver and detail demonstrations of the amazing effects they have developed in the areas of Indoor/Close Proximity Pyrotechnics and Special Effects for events and productions around the world. A highlight will include effects from in their own backyard - the Las Vegas production of Phantom.  www.aespyro.com

• Lunch and Discussion

• Flying by Foy (headquarters in Las Vegas) will be cap The SILV “Experience” with a class by Joe McGeough and his amazing team. They will demonstrate, share, and teach us about the evolution of their masterful techniques that has flown the likes from Peter Pan to the recently Tony nominated American Idiot. Foy’s tradition of innovation in the entertainment industry is unparalleled. www.flybyfoy.com

• Cocktail Party:  The day concludes with a cocktail party in a cutting edge, technology-filled Las Vegas club.

*Schedule subject to change