Work has begun on the Gulf region’s first permanent show La Perle by Dragone in Dubai’s upscale residential, hospitality and leisure development Al Habtoor City.
A of 170 creative members, technicians and world-class artists have joined forces to create performances scheduled to showcase in mid-2017 in the state-of-the-art aqua theatre.
Having been under construction for the past three years, the theatre will host over 450 performances a year – 2 shows per day, 5 days a week. The shows will revolve around aqua and aerial feats of which some will take place on an ‘aqua-stage’ filled with 2.7 million litres of water.
The tailor-made, 1,300 seat theatre will have the ability to change from a dry platform to aquatic stage and vice versa. Performances will also include dives from a height of 35 metres and flights at a speed of 15 km/h.
“The theatre we have built is not just a theatre, it’s an incredible machine. It’s like a special spaceship or more like an A380 plane which I have to fly!” said Franco Dragone, founder and artistic director of Belgium cultural creation company Dragone.
Dragone said Dubai is the right place to do the show because it is a “laboratory of the future, a crossroads of cultures where 21st century people live. In Dubai, we are living and experiencing what will happen in the world in 10 – 20 years from now, it’s a city of the future.”
Al Habtoor Group CEO and vice chairman Mohammed Al Habtoor said the creation of La Perle raises the bar in the global entertainment industry as a whole.
Group and MICE Bookings are now being accepted with individual tickets going on sale to the travel trade and general public soon.
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