Cirque Rocks was a charity circus held in Auckland, New Zealand event that was organised by the Dean Lonergan Events organisation and sponsored by McDonald's restaurants.
[1] It featured over 80 circus acts and X-Games performers, choreographed to a 60-piece orchestra.
[2][3] The event was held live at the Trusts Stadium in Auckland on August 23, 2006, and broadcast a couple of days later on local network TV3 on Saturday, August 26, 2006.
Cirque Rocks was a contemporary circus event and therefore did not use any performing animals.
On August 29, 2006, it was reported that a Chinese performer associated with the Chasing Sun chair balance act failed to turn up for her flight back to China.