Cirque du Soleil's KOOZA extends it's South Florida run!

Cirque du Soleil is pleased to announce that the limited engagement of their new show KOOZA in Miami has been extended to Sunday December 19, 2010.

With its big top touring production, KOOZA, opens Friday, November 12, 2010. KOOZA performs under the trademark blue-and-yellow Grand Chapiteau (Big Top) at Bicentennial Park in downtown Miami, Florida.

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 is set in an electrifying and exotic visual world full of surprises, thrills, chills, audacity and total involvement. Truly an adrenaline rush of acrobatics in a crazy kingdom!

Cirque du Soleil brings KOOZA to South Florida!

KOOZA tells the story of The Innocent, a melancholy loner in search of his place in the world.

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.

"KOOZA is about human connection and the world of duality, good and bad," says the show’s writer and director David Shiner. "The tone is fun and funny, light and open. The show doesn’t take itself too seriously, but it’s very much about ideas, too. As it evolves we are exploring concepts such as fear, identity, recognition and power."

The Innocent's journey brings him into contact with a panoply of comic characters such as the King, the Trickster, the Pickpocket, and the Obnoxious Tourist and his Bad Dog.

Between strength and fragility, laughter and smiles, turmoil and harmony, KOOZA explores themes of fear, identity, recognition and power. The show is set in an electrifying and exotic visual world full of surprises, thrills, chills, audacity and total involvement.

Several of the 50 performing artists in the show have received awards from important circus arts competitions, notably in juggling and trapeze.

The show presents an unprecedented approach to the High Wire and a breathtaking Wheel of Death - an act that Cirque du Soleil has never before presented under the big top.

Cirque du Soleil's KOOZA will be Under the Grand Chapiteau at Bicentennial Park in downtown Miami, Florida starting on Friday November 12, 2010 and is expected to run thru late December 2010.