<Ul> <Li> Crystal (2017): Cirque du Soleil announced the creation of their first ice show, Crystal, as a touring arena production that will feature ice skating and acrobatics . The show "will follow a young woman who shatters through reality to reach a surreal world filled with possibility". Crystal is scheduled for a soft opening on October 5, 2017, in Lafayette, Louisiana, before its world premiere in Montreal, scheduled for December 2017 . </Li> <Li> Hangzhou 2018: On 15 June 2015 at the Shanghai International Film Festival, Cirque du Soleil announced their plans to develop a permanent show in the Xintiandi commercial complex in Hangzhou, China . The theater will seat 1400 spectators and Cirque du Soleil's chief executive Daniel Lamarre has said that the show will have a "local flavor" but still be a "Cirque show". It is scheduled to have a soft opening in November 2018 with the development of the theatre on the site of an old warehouse of an old rail yard area currently underway . </Li> <Li> Cirque du Soleil Theme Park: On 12 November 2014, Cirque du Soleil, Grupo Vidanta, and Goddard Group announced plans for a theme park in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico . The plans call for at least two lands, the Village of the Sun and the Village of the Moon, as well as an outdoor evening show accommodating as many as 3,000 to 5,000 spectators, and may include a water park and nature park elements . The opening has been delayed from 2018 until the current estimate of a mid 2019 opening . </Li> <Li> Dubai 2018: On 10 November 2015, Cirque du Soleil posted a job opening on their website for a new production nicknamed "Dubai 2018". A production had been originally scheduled to premiere in Dubai in 2011, but due to financial instability that hit Cirque du Soleil around that time (including their Middle Eastern investors Nakheel and Istithmar World pulling out of their partnership), they had postponed the show . The 2011 show was meant to be directed by Guy Caron (director of Dralion and Kà) and Michael Curry (who specialises in puppetry / props), and was to be housed in a custom - built theatre that would seat 1,800 people on Palm Jumeirah (one of three man - made, palm - shaped islands in Dubai). It is unclear whether these plans remain in place for the 2018 show . </Li> <Li> New Jersey 2018: As part of the new, American Dream Supermall in New Jersey, Cirque will create a resident show and perform 10 shows per week in its custom - built, 1500 seat theatre . On top of this, every two hours, a fountain in the complex will open up to reveal two Cirque artists who will perform a 7 minute routine . </Li> <Li> Cirque 2019: Via their jobs website, Cirque confirmed the production of a new big top show, nicknamed Cirque 2019 . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Crystal (2017): Cirque du Soleil announced the creation of their first ice show, Crystal, as a touring arena production that will feature ice skating and acrobatics . The show "will follow a young woman who shatters through reality to reach a surreal world filled with possibility". Crystal is scheduled for a soft opening on October 5, 2017, in Lafayette, Louisiana, before its world premiere in Montreal, scheduled for December 2017 . </Li> <Li> Hangzhou 2018: On 15 June 2015 at the Shanghai International Film Festival, Cirque du Soleil announced their plans to develop a permanent show in the Xintiandi commercial complex in Hangzhou, China . The theater will seat 1400 spectators and Cirque du Soleil's chief executive Daniel Lamarre has said that the show will have a "local flavor" but still be a "Cirque show". It is scheduled to have a soft opening in November 2018 with the development of the theatre on the site of an old warehouse of an old rail yard area currently underway . </Li> <Li> Cirque du Soleil Theme Park: On 12 November 2014, Cirque du Soleil, Grupo Vidanta, and Goddard Group announced plans for a theme park in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico . The plans call for at least two lands, the Village of the Sun and the Village of the Moon, as well as an outdoor evening show accommodating as many as 3,000 to 5,000 spectators, and may include a water park and nature park elements . The opening has been delayed from 2018 until the current estimate of a mid 2019 opening . </Li>

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