Cirque du Soleil announces ‘KOOZA’ tour

Cirque du Soleil recently announced the return of its trademark blue-and-yellow big top to Australia with an all-new production, KOOZA. A sparkling, colourful homage to the traditions of circus, KOOZA will open in Sydney on Thursday, August 25, 2016, and will then tour to Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.

In this production, Cirque du Soleil rediscovers its origins and returns to the intimate and fundamental human elements of circus. KOOZA promises to combine thrilling acrobatic performance with the art of clowning. Viewers follow The Innocent as he takes a journey of self-discovery through a comic kingdom of eccentric characters, electrifying thrills and out-of-the-box surprises.

The eighth Big Top show to tour Australia, KOOZA will spring open “like a bejeweled toy box to capture the audience’s imagination and set their pulse racing.” The international cast of 50 acrobats, musicians, singers and actors will present heart-stopping feats and laugh-out-loud antics to a live soundtrack fusion of jazz, funk and Bollywood beats.

The New York Times wrote on the show: “KOOZA, a back-to-basics affair, presents the usual rubbery contortionists, fearless tightrope walkers and other gravity-defying daredevils. But what is special about this new production is that Cirque introduces some carefully choreographed chaos and old-fashioned sideshow spark… the real pleasures are the genuinely funny clowns.”

Tickets for the Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne seasons of KOOZA are now available to the public at www.cirquedusoleil.com/kooza or by phone at 1800 036 685.

Photo: Contortionists in Cirque du Soleil’s KOOZA featuring costumes by Marie-Chantale Vaillancourt. Photo by Matt Beard, courtesy of Cirque du Soleil.