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DESIGN SQUAD | Nate backstage at Cirque du Soleil | PBS KIDS GO!

posted on November 29, 2009

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Design Squad host Nate Ball visits the set of KÀ, the Cirque du Soleil show featuring gravity-defying, acrobatic stunts on an enormous moving stage. Nate goes behind the scenes to meet the artistic and engineering brains behind KÀ, and checks out the Sand Cliff Deck, the moving stage at the center of the show. Borrowing from the hugely popular reality competition format, DESIGN SQUAD is aimed at kids and people of all ages who like reality or how-to television. Its goal is to get ...


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