KOOZA

By
Lisa Bianconi
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The Big Top has finally returned to the iconic Santa Monica Pier to welcome Cirque du Soleil's KOOZA through January 5, 2025.

[NoHo Arts District, CA] – The Big Top has finally returned to the iconic Santa Monica Pier to welcome Cirque du Soleil’s KOOZA through January 5, 2025.

KOOZA is a return to the origins of Cirque du Soleil. It combines two circus traditions – acrobatic performance and the art of clowning. The show highlights the physical demands of human performance in all its splendor and fragility, presented in a colorful mélange that emphasizes bold slapstick humor.

Photos: Matt Beard & Bernard Letendre Costumes: Marie Chantale Vaillancourt Cirque du Soleil 2022

It’s with great anticipation and excitement that Cirque du Soleil raised its Big Top to one of the most iconic locations, Santa Monica, for the first time since 2014. Close to 80 crew members and 70 local stagehands came together to push more than 100 poles to lift the Big Top.

Acclaimed the world over since its opening in 2007, KOOZA has mesmerized close to 8 million spectators with over 5,000 performances in more than 71 cities across 23 countries. Santa Monica audiences will be able to take a seat and experience the Circus in its most exciting form.  This spectacle showcases high-flying acrobatics, whimsical characters, lavish costuming, colorful sets, hilarious clowning, and a powerful live score featuring an international cast of 53 artists.

Photos: Matt Beard & Bernard Letendre Costumes: Marie Chantale Vaillancourt Cirque du Soleil 2022

Tickets:

See KOOZA under the Big Top at the Santa Monica Pier. Dazzling deals you won’t want to miss! 

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Photos: Matt Beard & Bernard Letendre Costumes: Marie Chantale Vaillancourt Cirque du Soleil 2022

About the Big Top 

  • This is a new Big Top to Santa Monica – featuring a new, more eco-friendly grey and white design. 
  • The Big Top can seat 2,542 people. 
  • The entire set up takes seven days. It includes three tents: the Concession tent, the iconic Big Top, Artistic tent along with our kitchen, offices, and the box office. 
  • The Big Top stands at 19-meters high and at 51-meters in diameter.
  • The four main pillars supporting the Big Top measure 25-meters each. 
  • 550 stakes are planted to ground the Big Top on over 4,505-meter square feet of asphalt.
  • The show equipment weighs more than 2,000 tons and travels city to city in 70 trailers. 

OFFICIAL PARTNERS

Cirque du Soleil would like to thank its official partners Air Canada, SAP and Stags’ Leap Winery.