© Cirque du Soleil 2019

About us

Cirque du Soleil is a major Québec-based organization providing high-quality artistic entertainment. The company features 20 unique productions around the world in 2019, and employs 4,000 people, including 1,300 artists from 50 different countries.

We provide a creative environment that encourages our artists to express themselves in their own unique way, push their limits, and grow both professionally and personally.

The Cirque du Soleil Casting missions consist in discovering innovative and distinctive human performance, inspire creators and bringing the best talent for all current and future projects of Cirque du Soleil. 

Are you an athlete who wants to continue performing, this time onstage, or a performing artist with onstage experience? Here are our main employability requirements.


Required qualifications and skills

  • Strong technical skills in your discipline and good physical fitness
  • Great quality of movement
  • Artistic mastery and precision of execution
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Ability to adapt to new environments and group training styles
  • Availability to travel
  • Aged 18 or older.


Interested? If you meet these requirements, please submit your application, including:

  1. Your CV
  2. A headshot and a full body picture
  3. A video of your performance.


Our talent scouts will carefully review all properly filled out applications. We will contact you if we have an audition in your area or if a specific material is needed to present you for a role.


Cirque du Soleil Casting is recruiting circus performers from various disciplines, including action sports specialists, athletes, circus artists, clowns, dancers, musicians, physical actors, and singers.

Visit our International Headquarters in Montreal

Sneak peek with Yvonne Tousek-Renne

Artist interviews: What does it mean to be a Cirque du Soleil Performer

Creating the new  Casting branding

General terms and conditions for applying online

Cirque du Soleil and its partners will use candidate profile information.

By applying online, candidates who submit their material via links to demo videos agree that Casting will extract material from these links if necessary to add it to the candidate’s profile.

Applications may be considered for one or more roles in all our current shows and upcoming creations.

The following content will give you more information about our company, our employability requirements and how to apply online.

ACTION SPORTS SPECIALISTSATHLETES

Are you ready to apply? 

Select your main discipline to create your candidate profile and complete your application.

DANCERSSINGERSPHYSICAL ACTORSMUSICIANSCIRCUS PERFORMERS

*You will be redirected to our English application forms. If needed, view the Korean translation.*

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