The comparisons are inevitable. Mention the word "cirque," and it's a good bet that Cirque du Soleil springs to mind. But there's another troupe, situated pretty much across the street in Montreal from the aforementioned behemoth, and that is Cirque Eloize, it's 18-year-old, very distant offshoot (they are separate entities though they have shared business interests in the past). Founded by former …
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:16PM on April 20, 2011