How did the UV light get to our show? – red and white banners above a UV lamp and three Tron Girls with neon green UV make-up and braids, in suits outlined with white fiber optic cable

Hello everybody,

In this blog, we are going to write about implementing UV lights into our Tron Girls & Tron Man suits. We will tell you about what we were struggling with and how we made it happen.

In our Tron Dance suits we had never had any technology except LED. When we were creating a new type of LED costume, we wanted to reach a fresh new look, so we have decided to use fiber optic cable. After creating a beta version, there were some imperfections that needed to be fixed.

A dancer with one arm raised and the other stretched out, in an early Tron Girls costume outlined with glowing pink and blue fiber optic cable, in a dim hall with a lighting truss and a projection screen
Picture 1 – 1st generation of Tron Girls costume

The first one was the design – the fiber optic layout looked different in the draft, but when we saw the whole costume in lights, the effect was not as amazing as we expected. So we redesigned the fiber optic cables and fixed them properly. But we really wanted to add something special to make it look fresh and create a WoW effect. Since my teenage times I loved the UV lights in the night clubs and here came the idea to combine it. I knew it is possible to put it together in our LED Strip Studio software, where you can even synchronize external UV lights, LED walls, lasers, or a 3D projector easily. We have a DMX output in the controller, which is connected with a cable to the UV lights placed in front of the stage.

Seven dancers under UV light in a rehearsal room, in glowing neon green, pink, orange and yellow fishnet tights with neon braids, two of them with blue fiber optic lines on their black tops
Picture 2 – The first attempt to implement the UV

With our choreographer Monika, we bought many types of UV fabric and tried to fit it together. Our first version looked a little bit messy – we combined too many colors and found out that this colorful mixture is not attractive at all. So we had to reduce it to make it more decent and sexy.

Tron Girls show plan – three Tron Girls on a 5 m wide and 4 m deep stage, a UV lamp on each side, the wireless suit controller, the main show computer with audio output and the cables to the speaker system
Picture 3 – Tron Girls show plan

As it is said: ‘less is more’, we used just elegant black with one shade of the UV fabric and the final effect looked great.

A Tron Girl with neon UV make-up and pink braids in a suit outlined with orange fiber optic cable, the neon green arms of the dancers behind her fanned out around her
Picture 4 – Tron Girls suit

For the Tron Man show, it was much simpler due to our experience with the Tron Girls costume. We didn’t want to use any bright UV colors as we used for Tron Girls because Tron Man costumes are more decent, so we tried to make it simple: white color that looks more like blue when the UV light is turned on. You can see white gloves and silhouettes of the tie. Our competitors are creating various types of ties but we have decided to make it simple and use the silhouette of it and I think our solution is nicer and more practical.

Seven Tron Man dancers in hats and suits outlined with red fiber optic cable, their gloves and tie silhouettes glowing blue under UV light
Picture 5 – Tron Man suit

Here you can watch our showreel, where you can clearly see the UV light implementation in our shows. Sit back and enjoy:

Showreel Tron Event Agency – plays from YouTube or Vimeo once you press play

Are you searching for the easy way to implement the UV lights into your show? Do not hesitate to CONTACT US and we will help you with everything.