LOVE’s Acrobatics Performance Designer Daniel Cola has been with Cirque du Soleil since 1993, when the company went looking for trampolinists to join the cast of Mystère, its first resident show in Las Vegas.

Daniel Cola knew all along that his career path would involve his first loves: acrobatics and performance. He was a member of the French national trampoline team from 1978 to 1984, and World Champion in 1982. With an eye to the future, he also studied coaching before moving from the world of sport to the world of performance.

Daniel Cola left Mystère to take a more theatrical and less acrobatic role in Alegría, and toured Europe and Asia with that show for two years. In 1998 he created a trampoline act and became a coach for the Cirque production La Nouba at Walt Disney World in Florida. He stayed with the show as the Artistic Coordinator until 2004.

“I first became a fan of the Beatles as a kid of 14 in France. They were very present in my life,” says Daniel Cola. “I see LOVE as an opportunity to capture their spirit of youthfulness not only through acrobatics but also through the medium of extreme sports.”

Daniel Cola was born in 1962 in Asnières, France.