Cirque du Soleil "Kooza" - How to set up a circus in three minutes!

Setup and teardown of Cirque du Soleil's Kooza. Filmed in time lapse over 8 months at several location around the US.

Filmed and edited by Josh Anderson and Tree Cowell
Music - Road Trip by Planetary Nights

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Kooza
• Cirque du Soleil
• time lapse
• tent
• technical
• circus
• Cirque
• load in
• load out
• set up
• show

[Elan84]

wow, truly amazing video, but I guess the people doing the tear down and set up would say "It's all part of the job :)" Thank you for sharing the video!

I never realized the space between the actual floor and the stage was so close! Do the performers have to crawl when they use the trapdoors?

[wirecommando]

@Elan84 - A bunch of mechanics-style dollies are used by both artists and technicians to get under stage. Also, the height of the passageway varies city to city...the stage is always level, but the site we setup at usually isn't!

[Elan84]

@wirecommando Thank you for your response. I would've never thought that the height of the passageway would vary from city to city! That's such a fun fact! All my respect and love to everyone related to Kooza!

Are you currently with them as well? I went to see it in Tokyo twice and am trying to go to Osaka.

[airamchan1]

mis respetos para todas esas personas no es nada facil desmontar y volver a armar la carpa y otra cosa como se llama la cancion y quien la canta.

[imhuntingforwitches]

I agree wholeheartedly with the person below! I never knew the immense amount of work that went into assembling the big top (though I knew it was probably a LOT haha). Thank you for sharing this!

[saltzjoe10]

very nice show and set up

[laurinrosewood]

Brilliant! Been there and done set up from a merch point of view (not for Kooza, tho).  It is--all of it--amazing. Thanks for sharing!

[RayRayofficially]

that was amazing! i never knew how much work went into setting it up! thank u!