The Dahlias
The Dahlias perform high caliber, unique circus acts with beautiful custom costuming and apparatuses. Signature acts include their Butterfly Lyra Duet, Aerial Globe, and Cube Duo as well as ensemble shows with California's best circus artists and musicians.
Christine Lee and Nina Sawant have been performing together since 2017, bonding over their shared love of innovative apparatuses, beautiful costumes, and collaborative performance. Nina and Christine are the founders of Dahlias Entertainment, an Asian American founded circus company based in SF and LA. As a duo, they have become widely known for their imaginative Butterfly Aerial Lyra Duo, a dynamic act with transforming costumes. Other acts include aerial globe, and acrodance cube, as well as a long list of solo skills including most classic aerial apparatuses, dance, contortion, acting, cyr wheel, and hand balancing. Nina and Christine are core members of established Bay Area ensemble companies Sweet Can Productions and Vespertine Circus, and active members of their local circus communities.