This past Saturday, I took K out to finally redeem her Christmas present: tickets to see Kooza! the newest travelling Cirque du Soleil show. Kooza! brings Cirque back to its circus roots, as some of the recent productions (e.g. Requiem) have started to stray from what truly makes Cirque magical.
The show has all the elements of a traditional circus; clown comedy, jugglers, high wire, and contortionists all with the unique “Cirque” flair added to them. It was an extremely entertaining show with moments that made you laugh out loud such as the person in the dog suit cocking their leg and spraying the front row audience or the pickpocket lifting a unsuspecting volunteer of everything valuable, including his necktie. Then there were other moments that made you look away in fear where one of the Wheel of Death tumblers nearly missed landing on the wheel after a freefall jump, or when one of the high wire acrobats nearly lost his footing after leaping over his co-performer and fought so hard to catch his balance to stay on. And of course, these two acts were really the only ones not to use a safety line.
Kooza has really made itself home down by the Polson Pier district and has extended its original stay here by a few weeks. At last check, there were still tickets available for the newly added shows, and if I could recommend (and I can since it’s my site), I’d say to grab them while you can because this is one extraordinary show that you shouldn’t miss and it’s the closest thing to the permanent Vegas Cirque shows you’ll get on this side of the border.
