Citrus Arts are a South Wales based company founded in 2009 by Welsh artists James and Bridie Doyle-Roberts. For over 10 years we have been making highly physical and visual performances that combines circus, theatre and dance, which are performed with our communities and also at events, venues and festivals across the UK. Our home is Pontypridd, in the Rhondda Welsh Valleys, 10 minutes from Cardi
ff and a lot of our activity happens at our community space, Hopkinstown Hall. Bridie and James’ training was in physical theatre and circus. We toured for many years and our expertise is about bringing people together through creativity. We are a not-for-profit charity, originally a family run company but now expanding and supporting more local and international artists and participants. OUR HOME AND OUR COMMUNITY
We support our local community through creativity and social experiences at our home at Hopkinstown Hall and in our local communities. We collaborate with brilliant teams of artists and organisations, through creating new original touring productions and commissions. We aim to create the environments for people to come together and be part of something special. We want to inspire others to take risks, learn and share experiences that strengthen communities. OUR EVENTS/ TOURING
We are passionate about our work and want as many people as possible to benefit from what we do. Contemporary circus, dance, and physical theatre are at the heart of our practise. We explore how high production values placed on narrative, music, and visual arts support physical spectacle in original performance.
Our work has been seen across the UK in cities and rural locations from a small performance inside a plane fuselage for an audience of 20 to a large scale televised performance of 20,000. We work in partnership with a range of organisations and have helped deliver ambitious creative projects with companies like Walk The Plank, National Centre for Circus Arts, Sinfonia Cymru and Wales Millennium Centre. We have delivered projects in association with three of the UK’s National Theatres (London's Southbank, Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru & National Theatre Wales) and held long term Creative Leadership roles for London Youth Circus, Big Splash street theatre festival, Take pART and Green Man Festival.
