Dralion | |
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Company | Cirque du Soleil |
Genre | Contemporary circus |
Show type | Touring |
Date of premiere | April 22, 1999 (Montreal) |
Final show | January 18, 2015 (Anchorage) |
Creative team | |
Director | Guy Caron |
Director of creation | Gilles Ste-Croix |
Set designer | Stéphane Roy |
Composer | Violaine Corradi |
Costume designer | François Barbeau |
Clown act designer | Michel Dallaire |
Lighting designer | Luc Lafortune |
Choreographer | Julie Lachance |
Sound designer | Guy Desrochers |
General artistic director | Sylvie Galarneau |
Company founder and CEO | Guy Laliberté |
Other information | |
Preceded by | La Nouba (1998) |
Succeeded by | Varekai (2002) |
Official website |
Dralion (pronounced Drah-lee-on) was a touring production by the Canadian entertainment company Cirque du Soleil. The show combined elements of traditional Chinese circus with Western contemporary circus, complementing the "East-meets-West" theme implied in the title—the name is a portmanteau of "dragon" (representing the East) and "lion" (representing the West). It is Cirque du Soleil's twelfth touring production and the first Cirque show since 1985 not to be directed by Franco Dragone.[1] Dralion performed its final show at the Sullivan Arena in Anchorage, Alaska on January 18, 2015, bringing its fifteen-year world tour to a close.