“Nothing touched by flame
Ever remains the same.”

– Anguis

ROGU is a fire, light and movement arts performance and education company based in Ireland. 

By fusing the spectacular nature of circus and fire performance together with the illusions of magic and object manipulation along with expressiveness of dance and theatre ROGU focuses on creating shows that push the boundaries of what fire and light performance can be.
Inspired by the power of performance to inspire and uplift ROGU has a strong emphasis on making performances accessible to a wide ranging audience. Due to the spectacular nature of fire performance, along with the fact that they are generally performed outside in public spaces and have a large audience capacity, ROGU’s performances suit a wide variety of events and have the power to reach audiences that are not naturally drawn to or catered for in the arts.

Motivated by the positive impact these art forms have had on themselves and others ROGU aspires to share these artforms through performance and education.

Experience ROGU’s unique vision of the art of fire and light.

Guillaume Cousson is the writer, performer and director of Riuchi, an award winning circus company created in 2013 that tours and headlines festivals across the world.

The character Riuchi comes from the imagination of the performer’s Asian identity.  Riuchi communicates through movements that are based on the theories of martial arts through self-taught techniques and training. Within this context, he creates movements enriched with grace, purity and focus that seem effortless. Riuchi has received several awards and became one of the winners of Ireland’s “New Emerging Artists” for 2016. The Irish Times describe him as “a skilled and imaginative performer”.

AWARDS

16×16: Next Generation Artist Award Arts Council of Ireland 2016
Best production Galway Fringe 2014
Best lighting design Galway Fringe 2014
Nominated for Bewley’s Cafe Theatre “Little Gem Award” Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival 2014

Niamh has been producing performance work for over 12 years. Since co founding Devious Theatre in 2006 Niamh has directed, produced, written, performed, and toured a mix of circus, visual art, music, live art, and theatre. Completing several residencies under Corcadorca, Cork, and Fennelly’s, Callan, Niamh was awarded the position of Central Art’s first artist in residence for 2016/17. YER WAN Niamh’s self penned, performed, and produced comedy show toured nationally to sell out venues in 2014/15 and won “Best Solo Performance” at Galway Fringe Festival. Her current work PULLED, a follow up comedy to YER WAN is developed with Central Arts and Devious Theatre as part of Devious’ 10 year anniversary programme. After finding national success in Ireland, PULLED toured to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 where it was a sell out hit and dubbed “Comedic chaos” by the Edinburgh Culture Review. 

After making a decisive career change in 2018, Niamh now happily works within the realm of circus and street arts, while also producing conceptual theatre shows in Brussels, Belgium.

Ronan is an internationally renowned fire and poi artist, teacher and performer. Ronan has been teaching and performing all over the world for over 13 years, from his home in Ireland to all over Europe, including the UK, France, Germany, Spain Italy, Hungary, Ukraine, Poland, Portugal, USA, India, Mexico, Guatemala, Israel and Thailand.

Ronan is acknowledged as the innovator of ‘contact poi’ – a form of poi that involves a ball on string connected by a rope to a counterweight that can not only be spun like classic poi designs but also encourages throwing and rolling in different ways around the body. This innovation has opened up the whole art form’s possibilities and this type of poi has now become the standardised poi all over the world.

AWARDS

Voted 2nd in the Top 10 Poi Spinners 2012 – Drexfactor.com