Fascinating Facts About LUZIA

All 6,000 litres (1,585 gallons) of water in the performance are recycled for the full duration of LUZIA’s stay in any city.
The stage floor has 94,657 holes through which the water drains into a 3,500-litre basin hidden underneath.
For the artists’ well-being, the water is filtered, disinfected, and maintained at a constant 28°C (82°F).
The images and patterns that appear in the rainfall are generated electronically by a graphical water display screen. There are Otomi patterns, rain drops, flowers and various animal figures that nod to the strange, warm, and whimsical creatures of Mexican painter Francisco Toledo.

The Big Top for LUZIA stands 19 meters (62 feet) high and is 51 meters (167 feet) in diameter.
It takes 8 days to set up the entire site, including the Big Top, entrance tent, VIP tent and rehearsal spaces.
It requires 550 pegs to firmly hold the Big Top down. In total, it can withstand winds up to 120 km/h (75 mph).
The Great Disk above the stage contains a giant lightbox that can transform it into the sun or the moon.

The music of LUZIA is steeped in this rich mixture, expressing ancient and modern sounds with brassy tubas and trumpets and the suave melodies of the Spanish guitar–all driven by relentless percussion and drums.
Mounted on a cylinder, the Papel Picado curtain is 11 m high by 30 m wide. Set Designer Eugenio Caballero worked with Javier Martínez Pedro, an artist from a small town in Guerrero, to create the images that were all drawn by hand. The imagery was created by punching more than 13,000 holes into the surface of the curtain.

Our costume artisans developed 6 crocodile heads, 1 iguana shawl, 1 cockroach, 1 grasshopper, 1 armadillo, 1 snake, 5 swordfish heads and 3 tuna heads. Some of the “body parts” are manipulated like puppets so that the creatures look alive.
A team of 21 show technicians handle all LUZIA’s performance operations, maintenance, and technical details. the team is divided in 6 departments: Lighting, Sound, Rigging, Automation, Props, and Stage Carpentry.
There are more than 40 different job titles on site, including Electrician, Head of Tents, IT Specialist, Sales & Customer Experience Supervisor, Publicist and Plumber.