Fascinating Facts About KOOZA

  • The choreographies in KOOZA are influenced by pop and urban pop cultures, old school hip hop, urban military formations, and electric boogaloo to create a unique vocabulary: the KOOZA language.
  • The skeleton acts go from dark underworld moods to flamboyant cabaret-style moves inspired by 1940s and 1950s swimming musicals and by vaudeville.
  • In total, the show features about 100 props made of materials like carbon fibre, urethane, fabric and metal.
  • The KOOZA Big Top can entertain approximately 2,600 guests for every performance.
  • The Big Top stands 56 ft (20m) tall, 164 ft (51m) in diameter, and 82 ft (25m) above the ground.
  • The canvas for the tent and its 11 tunnels weigh approximately 11,500 pounds!
  • 60 LED projectors were designed specifically to light the void, an enormous canopy overhanging the Bataclan.
  • The void is a digitally dyed and stencilled fabric canopy whose pattern mimics the veins of leaves, giving it an organic feel.
  • The stage is ringed by recessed lighting units that cast a warm glow onto the faces of the performers, much like the footlights of a 19th-century theater.
  • The cast and crew of KOOZA represent 24 nationalities: Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, France, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, New Zealand, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States.
  • Although French and English are the main languages on tour, many other languages are spoken.
  • Approximately 150 people travel with the tour, including 122 cast and crew members.

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