Cirque Eloiz Coming to The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury Next Month

CANADA'S internationally-acclaimed circus Cirque Éloize return to The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, next month.

A world leader in contemporary circus and a firm favourite in the West End, Cirque Éloize combine circus arts with music, dance and theatre. Based in Montreal, the company have been creating thrilling performances since 1993.

In Cirkopolis, 12 multidisciplinary artists including acrobats, jugglers, contortionists and aerial artists rebel against monotony, reinvent themselves and challenge limits. Performing within an inventive stage design and accompanied by an original musical score and video projections, the company create a world where fantasy provokes reality, the veil of anonymity and solitude is lifted and replaced by bursts of colour and imagination.

Directed by Artistic Director Jeannot Painchaud and co-directed and choreographed by Dave St-Pierre, Cirkopolis seeks to transport performers and spectators between dream and reality in a stream of acrobatics, music, images and drawings.

Painchaud says: "Cirkopolis was imagined as a crossroads - between imagination and reality, between individuality and community, between limits and possibilities. The show is driven by the poetic impulse of life, the physical prowess of the circus and the humour, at once serious and light-hearted. Entering Cirkopolis is all about letting go and allowing yourself to be borne aloft by hope."

Cirque Éloize's iD was the first week-long show in the new Marlowe Theatre in 2011.

Cirque Éloize: Cirkopolis is at The Marlowe Theatre from Tuesday 3 to Saturday 7 March (7.30pm, plus a 2.30pm matinee on Saturday). Tickets, priced from £16 to £31.50 (concessions available; booking fee applies), are from the Box Office on 01227 787787, or marlowetheatre.com.