Kature Decorators

Lighting Truss

The structure that holds the show up: truss carrying the fixtures, the speakers and the screens above a stage.

A ground-support lighting truss goalpost over a stage washed in blue, with fixtures and speakers rigged along the span

Truss is what lets lighting sit where the design needs it rather than where a stand will reach. Built as a ground-support goalpost or flown from a structure overhead, it carries moving heads, washes, line array and LED, and it takes the weight off the stage deck and the sightlines.

Getting it right is a load question before it is an aesthetic one: what is hanging, where the point loads land, how the towers are ballasted, and how the whole thing behaves outdoors. That work happens before anything goes up.

Our truss, our fixtures, our riggers. The people who spec the design are the people on site when it is built.

On site
A blue-lit event hall with a lighting truss running the width of the stage above guest seating
Questions about this structure

What is lighting truss used for?

Lighting truss holds the show up. It carries the moving heads, washes, line array and LED above a stage, which lets fixtures sit where the lighting design needs them rather than where a stand will reach, and takes the weight off the stage deck and out of the sightlines.

What is ground support truss?

Ground support is a free-standing truss goalpost built up from the floor, used where there is nothing overhead to fly from. The towers are ballasted and the span runs between them, so a stage can be rigged on an open site or inside a venue that will not take rigging.

Can truss be rigged inside a hanger or a dome?

Yes. Because we own the structures as well as the truss, rigging inside a German hanger or a dome is one conversation rather than a negotiation between two suppliers, and the load is signed off by the people who put the roof up.

Does Kature supply the fixtures as well as the truss?

Yes. Our truss, our fixtures and our own riggers, which means the people who specify the design are the people on site when it is built. Nothing is handed to a crew you have never met.

Is outdoor rigging handled differently?

Yes. Outdoors the structure has to be assessed for how it behaves in weather as well as for what is hanging on it, so point loads, ballasting and wind are worked through before anything goes up. That work happens before the trucks are loaded.

Planning something that needs this?

Tell us the site, the date and the guest count. We will come back with an approach that covers the structure and everything inside it.

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