Dateline -- [Pyro Spectaculars USA with the Choreographer Alberto Navarro today announced ...
[USA wins International Festival of Fireworks in Yokohama Japan
Yokohama, Japan- Sky Concert International Fireworks Spectaculars at Yokohoma
Hakkeijima Sea Paradise
First Place Gold Medal Prize went to the USA, represented by PyroSpectaculars
Inc., a California based company. The show was designed by Alberto Navarro
of Bellevue, WA. Navarro is an independent multimedia and pyrotechnics choreographer,
who designs shows internationally for PyroSpectaculars, including the annual
Space Needle New Years show. Navarro has won various awards for his unique
and rythmic european style shows, including Gold medals at the Symphony
of Fire Festivals in Montreal, The International Benson & Hedges Fireworks
Competition in Toronto, and Festivals in France and Spain.
Other entrants in the Yokohama Festival were France, represented by Ruggieri,
and Australia, represented by Howard and Sons.
The show, ”Made in America” was based on the history of American
music. Navarro, who is also a painter, architect and multimedia artist,
describes his shows as “ a combination of music, rythm, color , shapes,
emotions..”
This is the first international fireworks competition in Japan, and also
the first fireworks competition in which all competitors were required to
choreograph and fire digitally, with a Pyrodigital firing system.
The winning show was fired from 7 positions on a 360 feet dock, with a high
quality and varied assortment of products from, USA, China, Japan, Spain,
Germany,France.
The USA show also used a record number of firing cues with Pyrodigital:
2692, and is the first to use the new advanced software "ShowDirector"
from Infinity Visions/Pyrodigital.
Navarro’s next show with Pyro Spectaculars will be on December 31st
at the Space Needle in Seattle WA.
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[Infinity Visions Inc.] is the leading supplier of a World Class Choreography to the International Fireworks industry. It has a long history as a successful organization.