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1 More than 180 million people have seen a Cirque du Soleil show since the circus was founded in 1984.
2 Cirque du Soleil will present 18 different shows this year - nine are touring and nine stay put in cities such as Las Vegas.
3 All shows take place in a special mobile village that takes nine days to set up. The highlight is the Big Top, a yellow-and-blue canvas tent where the show takes place. It is 17m high with a diameter of 50m, and comprises 18 pieces of flame-retardant vinyl canvas.
4 The rest of the village includes a gym, dressing rooms, a physiotherapy room, the kitchen and offices housed in steel containers.
5 Kooza is the fifth Cirque du Soleil show to come to Singapore. The previous four were Saltimbanco (2000), Alegria (2002), Quidam (2005) and Totem (2015).
6 Kooza is the 21st show in the Cirque du Soleil canon.
7 Approximately 190 people travel with the tour. They include more than 120 members of the cast and crew, as well as their spouses and children.
8 There are more than 175 costumes and 160 hats in the show and close to 1,200 items in all, including shoes and wigs, in the show.
9 About 300 measurements of each performer are taken at costume fittings.
10 At 11.8m, the Kooza stage is the highest one designed by Cirque du Soleil. It is a three-storey castle-like tower called the Bataclan.