Delirium (Cirque du Soleil)

Delirium
Logo for Cirque du Soleil's Delirium
Company	Cirque du Soleil
Genre	Contemporary circus
Show type	Touring arena show
Date of premiere	January 26, 2006
Final show	April 20, 2008
Creative team
Director of creation	Gilles Ste-Croix, Carmen Ruest
Creators, directors, set designers, and multimedia directors	Michel Lemieux, Victor Pilon
Musical director, recording producer, arrangements, sound effects designer	Francis Collard
Choreographer	Mia Michaels
Lyrics	Robbie Dillon
Costume designer	Michel Robidas
Lighting designer	Alain Lortie
Adaptation, research, design of acrobatic language	Catherine Archambault
Prop and set elements designer	Anne-Ségun Poirier
Sound designer	Yves Savoie
Make-up designer	Nathalie Gagné
Hair designer	Mario Huot
Associate producer, musical content	Ian Tremblay
Artistic director	Luc Tremblay
Original music composers	Violaine Corradi, René Dupéré, Benoît Jutras
Other information
Preceded by	Corteo (2005)
Succeeded by	Love (2006)

Delirium was a touring multimedia stage show by Cirque du Soleil featuring live music, video projections, and performances by acrobats and other circus performers. The production featured remixes of existing Cirque du Soleil music. The show premiered on January 26, 2006 and had its final performance in London, England on April 20, 2008.^[1]

Delirium was the first of Cirque du Soleil's productions designed to be presented in arenas outside Japan (first was Fascination in 1992, which was only presented in Japan); all the company's previous stage productions outside Japan had been toured with their own large, custom-built tent (referred to as the 'big top' or 'grand chapiteau') or were permanent shows performed in specially designed theatres. Delirium, as Cirque du Soleil's first significant experiment with arena venues, eventually helped pave the way for the company's subsequent show-by-show conversion of its older big top productions (e.g. Saltimbanco, Alegría, Quidam, Dralion, and Varekai) to a more cost-effective arena format.