CANADA'S internationally acclaimed circus company Cirque Éloize returns, following the success of iD in 2013, for a Dance Consortium UK tour in Spring 2015, beginning at Sadler’s Wells’ Peacock Theatre in London and concluding at Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff on 11th April.

They are at The Festival Theatre in Edinburgh from 1st to 4th April and thanks to the management of the Festival we have four pairs of tickets up for grabs for the performance of Cirque Eloize Cirkopolis on Thursday 2nd April.

A world leader in contemporary circus and a firm favourite in the West End, Cirque Éloize combines circus arts with music, dance and theatre.

Based in Montreal, the company has been creating thrilling performances since 1993.

In Cirkopolis 12 multidisciplinary artistes including acrobats, jugglers, contortionists and aerial artistes rebel against monotony, re-invent themselves and challenge limits. Performing within an inventive stage design and accompanied by an original musical score and video projections, the company creates 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.

Jeannot Painchaud said, “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.” Dance Consortium is a group of 17 large scale venues located across the UK, supported by the Arts Council England. Since its formation in 2000 Dance Consortium has presented 35 tours by 22 different companies from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, France, The Netherlands, Taiwan, Israel and the USA. Their performances and education activities have been experienced by hundreds of thousands of people across all parts of the UK.

To win tickets to see Cirque Eloize’s Cirkopolis get a Times and send your entry to the Times Office, 17 Bank Street, Lochgelly KY5 9QQ by Wednesday 18th March.