Pink Rigging Accident

John Diaz posted this video on Facebook:

Pink, clearly a showbiz trouper, said herself said via Twitter that she wasn't clipped in properly:

@PinkFacts didn't get clipped in2 harness correctly,drug me off stage, fell in2 barricade. Getting xrays.I hope it at least looked cool!!!less than a minute ago via UberTwitterP!nk
Pink

And that's pretty clear since you can see two people pulling two of the flying lines back towards the stage after her fall.

Glad she's OK, but I hope they get to the bottom of what happened.  With that many lines to her harness, it has to be an automated system, but this looks more like a procedural failure than a technical one.  It sure looks like she gave a "stop" signal--looking stage right and the crossed hands at about :47 in the video.  Mark Fisher's Stufish studio designed the show, and Summit Steel supplied rigging, but I'm not sure if they provided the acrobatic rigging as well.

If anyone has details, please post a comment.

Update on Saturday, July 17, 2010 at 12:43AM by John Huntington

I heard from a source that this is a Stage Technologies system, but it sure seems like an operator issue to me (and everyone else who I've talked to about it).  The crossed arms is also apparently the Cirque "no go" sign.

Update on Friday, July 23, 2010 at 08:03AM by John Huntington

"Anne" (who didn't leave her name or any contact info), posted this youtube video with another angle and a much clearer shot:

Comments

[Anne]

You can see really clearly what happened in this video... Better Quality, Better Angle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNa0-PXDZmA

The Stage Right side never got attached, and they went anyway. I guess no one was looking for the "no go" signal, eh? Or like you said... it was automated and the human in the equation didn't react quickly enough to stop it.

But you can clearly hear her reaction through the heaset mic :) I can only imagine mixing FOH when that happened. I'm sure I would be stunned looking up going "Oh GOD what just happened..." Then I'd hear the cussing through the PA and snap back to it thinking ..."Frick, I better shut her off!" *frantically throw fader* Then of course, I'd cue her up in the cans so I could know what was going on :)

Oh and maybe pick up headset in the other ear to await instruction :)