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in 2015 and gained popularity competing in America's Got Talent show where their team demonstrated the world's first interactive performance with a digital mapping on water. Since then, the company participated in a number of notable business, theater, and music events.

History

Freckled Sky was founded on February 24, 2015, in Chicago by Ukrainian immigrants Val Syganevich and his sister Katia Korobko. Before coming to the United States in November 2014, the duo participated in the Ukrainian league of KVN games (a humor TV improv which also included the future Ukrainian president

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) and ran one of the top ten Ukrainian

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agencies. Syganevich considered his move to the United States as an opportunity to reach out to larger audiences. Syganevich and Korobko chose the name Freckled Sky ( uk, Небо в ластовинні) after their father's

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collection of the same name. Freckled Sky's debut was America's Got Talent show in the summer of 2015 which gained the team popularity and favorable media coverage.

Notable performances

America's got talent

For the America's Got Talent (season 10) auditions in 2015, Freckled Sky team cast two dancers, Olga Sokolova and Jalen Preston who danced in the artificial rain generated by a water screen The audience and judges were stunned by a

on water – the world's first interactive performance of this kind.

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who judged the auditions called Val Syganevich "a genius" and used his once-per-season Golden Buzzer to propel Freckled Sky team directly to the quarterfinals.

Something Wicked This Way Comes

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's novel Something Wicked This Way Comes. The production was highly acclaimed by critics:

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calling the effects "jaw-dropping",

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– "wowing the crowds", and BroadwayWorld – "mind-boggling, nothing before ever seen". Freckled Sky set up included video wall, 16 intelligent moving lights, and a scrim, invisible to the audience – all combined to produce "stupefying, otherworldly special effects."

P!nk's Brit Awards 2019

In February 2019, Freckled Sky produced interactive water projection performance for the

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's mash-up at 39th edition of

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, leaving "the audience in awe."

Team and Services

Freckled Sky's team is a mix of artistic creators and technology experts. They aim to erase boundaries between performers and their audiences by creating new forms of entertainment and using high-end technologies, by mixing together projections, dance, lightning, interactive solutions, and other special effects. In 2018, Freckled Sky team included 30 permanent members and 35 additional part-time contributors. The company produced multiple corporate and brand-promotion events in United States, Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Freckled Sky's clients include BMW, Ferrari,

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Awards

* ''Visual Artist Awards'', 2018, Best Mapping with Human Interaction, ''winner'' * '' Barrymore Award'', 2018, Outstanding Media Design. * ''Hermes Creative Awards'', 2017, ''Platinum'', Live interactive projection show for the Magnum Double Night event * ''Hermes Creative Awards'', 2017, ''Platinum'', Live interactive projection show for the New Mercedes-Benz Travego launch event * ''Hermes Creative Awards'', 2017, ''Platinum'', Live interactive projection show for the

Award ceremony * ''Hermes Creative Awards'', 2017, ''Platinum'', One-of-a-kind live interactive performance with water screen projection for America's Got Talent * ''Hermes Creative Awards'', 2017, ''Gold'', Live interactive performance for the New BMW 7 Series launch event * ''Hermes Creative Awards'', 2017, ''Gold'', Live interactive show for the Panama Canal Expansion opening ceremony

References

External links

Freckled Sky website

NBC America's Got Talent Freckled Sky page
{{America's Got Talent Digital art Artist groups and collectives based in Chicago Technology companies established in 2015 Arts organizations established in 2015 Companies based in Evanston, Illinois Event management companies of the United States America's Got Talent contestants