CBC.Cirque du Soleil-Kooza (2008).WS-PDTV.XviD.Ekolb

Cirque du Soleil-Kooza Cirque du Soleil returns to its origins as it combines acrobatic performances and the art of clowning. 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. 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. Format : AVI Length : 699 MiB for 1h 27mn 12s 936ms Codec : XviD Source : PDTV Language : English Subtitles : None Genre : Musical Video #0 : MPEG-4 Visual at 986 Kbps Aspect : 576 x 320 (1.800) at 29.970 fps Audio #0 : MPEG Audio at 121 Kbps Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 KHz Enjoy! Ekolb

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jiveclive (2010-01-08)

zmacdaddy, you messed up. Your lack of appreciation of Kooza was only because you didn't hit some quality weed before and during the show. You do that and you'll take back all your current review. Hand on heart.

kwahati (2010-01-20)

Awesome torrent. Not bad download speed (given that there aren't a ton of seeds). Honestly, I think this is my new favorite Cirque show. I am definitely a Cirque du Soleil fan, but the staging (especially the moving tower thing that the band and singer are on), artistry, music (the indian(?) vocalist is fantastic!) and story of this show blows away many of the others. I like dark, spooky and creepy (hey, I'm a big Tim Burton fan, too!) so I'm fine with those elements of this. This show really tells a much more coherent story than most cirque shows. It's not quite as a-to-b as Ka, but it certainly has a more discernible storyline than La Nouba or Saltimbanco or some of the other more abstract shows. I LOVE the interplay between "the Innocent" and "the Trickster". I found the Innocent to be incredibly believable and felt, on some level, like I was experiencing this strange new world with him. The striped onesie really does it for me. :-P
Only drawbacks people should know about just so they don't complain about it after the fact:
1) There are some slight skips where it seems that commercials were cut out or something (this was a CBC showing) and so we see a scene clearly reach its end and then, instead of a clean transition into the next scene, there is a bit of a jump where we clearly miss SOMETHING. I'm not sure what and it generally doesn't seem like we're missing anything too important, but it's a touch distracting and I think there are a couple little bits of story we might be missing that would have made the through-lines a little easier to follow. To be fair, this only happens a few times throughout the show and I'm certainly not blaming the ULer - this is probably just a product of how it was broadcast. (Anyway, I still definitely understood the themes of innocence and identity and that's, in my opinion, the important part.)
2) The video and sound aren't exactly crystal clear, but they're certainly good enough (IDK how people usually rate this stuff, but I'd probably say 8/10...?) Anyway, it's digitally recorded from a television broadcast and it's only a 700mb download -- this is probably as good as it can be...
In all, I'm very happy to have seen this (so happy, I'm about to watch it again!) This is a great show and I'm really hoping to see it live now. According to the website, it's on tour basically all year!
BIG THANKS, UPLOADER!