Cirque du Soleil is a popular Canadian touring and entertainment company. It’s credited for many breathtaking global stage performances in different countries like Canada, USA, UK, etc. The Dralion is just one of its numerous stage productions and is the 12th in the company’s sequel produced to date. In general, it’s a combined production whose performance elements draw a lot from Chinese acrobatics and western contemporary circus performance acts. Because of these western circus and eastern/ Chinese acrobatic acts, the Dralion completely blends Cirque du Soleil’s “East-meets-West" theme.
Theoretically, Dralion simply refers to dragon for the eastern parts of the world and lion for the west. This combination is made live with steel caricatures of steel that are modeled to represent old eastern temples, eastern catwalks and space for acrobatic equipment. Once these sets are created, the performers then start the rehearsed performances.
As an acrobatic performance that encompasses both eastern and western acrobatic ideologies, some of the acts displayed by Dralion include singlehanded balancing, bamboo poles, juggling, Trampoline, Chinese lion dance-like dances, aerial hoops, spirits (gravity defying ballet dances), skipping ropes, hoop diving and Aerial pas de deux where couples aerial dance in silks.
Apart from the mentioned acts, the Dralion is not complete without elements of music and special costumes. The show’s costumes are specially designed from special materials that have been imported from Africa, China and India. Its been reported that one Dralion performance can have as much as 1500 costumes with some acts having as many as 4 costumes per show. As for the music, the blend is a contemporary fushion of western acoustics and some electrical drawn from the sound of drums, violins, keyboards, winds, guitars and percussion instruments.
Since starting to tour in the summer of 2009, the Cirque du SoleilDralion is still live, even today. You can catch their next destinations on their main website or through local classifieds online.
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Theoretically, Dralion simply refers to dragon for the eastern parts of the world and lion for the west. This combination is made live with steel caricatures of steel that are modeled to represent old eastern temples, eastern catwalks and space for acrobatic equipment. Once these sets are created, the performers then start the rehearsed performances.
As an acrobatic performance that encompasses both eastern and western acrobatic ideologies, some of the acts displayed by Dralion include singlehanded balancing, bamboo poles, juggling, Trampoline, Chinese lion dance-like dances, aerial hoops, spirits (gravity defying ballet dances), skipping ropes, hoop diving and Aerial pas de deux where couples aerial dance in silks.
Apart from the mentioned acts, the Dralion is not complete without elements of music and special costumes. The show’s costumes are specially designed from special materials that have been imported from Africa, China and India. Its been reported that one Dralion performance can have as much as 1500 costumes with some acts having as many as 4 costumes per show. As for the music, the blend is a contemporary fushion of western acoustics and some electrical drawn from the sound of drums, violins, keyboards, winds, guitars and percussion instruments.
Since starting to tour in the summer of 2009, the Cirque du SoleilDralion is still live, even today. You can catch their next destinations on their main website or through local classifieds online.
Buy Cirque du Soleil Dralion Tickets
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