WHO ARE WE?

Round in Circles Productions CIC is a dynamic touring dance and theatre company that crafts socially engaged events and performances designed to spark connections and inspire communities. With a mission to mobilise local communities through arts and culture, we’re proud to be a key player in Kent’s cultural regeneration, creating innovative projects in public spaces at the heart of Margate’s creative revival.

At Round in Circles, we specialise in producing vibrant, joyful, and site-responsive performances, blending dance, film, and social dance events in unique and unexpected locations. From Ballroom and Latin to Swing and Argentine Tango, we celebrate a broad spectrum of dance styles, inviting audiences and participants to engage with us in truly meaningful ways.

We’re also the proud presenting home of the legendary Ragroof Tea Dances – a trailblazing series of nostalgic yet trail-setting events that have toured the UK for over 20 years. With expert knowledge of vintage Ballroom, Latin, Swing, and Argentine Tango, Ragroof Tea Dances were the first to revive the magic of historic dancehalls, creating a timeless sense of connection and joy.

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Anna Symes
Artistic Director
Margate, Kent

Anna Symes is a multi-disciplinary artist and performer with a visual arts background, creating dance, theatre, and dance-for-camera that explore public space, architecture, and heritage. Her visionary work fuses dance and social movement, often set against the backdrop of brutalist or utopian spaces, transforming our relationship to beauty, place, and the built environment.

Anna recently completed her Arts Council England-funded DYCP project, "The Synaesthetic Exploration of How the Elements Inspire Movement in the Body," which took her to Argentina, New York, and Mallorca to collaborate with cutting-edge practitioners. This international exploration deepened her creative practice and informed her teaching of Argentine Tango in Margate, where she inspires dancers to connect with themselves, their partners, and their surroundings.

Anna studied Theatre & Dance with Visual Art at the University of Brighton. She was co-director of Ragroof Theatre (2003 – 2013) and an associate artist with The Ragroof Players (2013–2018), where she performed and produced acclaimed works like Bridges y Puentes and Happy Feet. Her enduring passion for dance, architecture, and community connection continues to define her unique artistic voice.

M: 07974 970072
T: 01843 297097
E: anna@roundincircles.org.uk

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Simon Foxall
Creative Producer 
Asti, Italy

Fine artist & filmmaker Simon Foxall harnesses messy, spontaneous moments of creativity to playfully parody patriarchal assumptions on femininity, sexuality and the gendered gaze. 
Simon trained in Fine Art Painting at University of Brighton (2003-06, BA Hons), and 
Royal College of Art, London (2010 - 2012, MA).
Simon's film work explores Nietzschean ideas that draw on feminist/queer readings of sci-fi as a triumph of the feminine-coded natural/supernatural over masculine-coded culture/tech.

His paintings operate as a kind of montage, a means to develop parasitic languages; ones which depend not on being 'first', but on retaining a ghost of pre-existing context and currency. They rely on appropriating, playing with the mechanics of meaning and myth-making, significance and hierarchy, asking questions of the parameters of history, sincerity, taste, reality, individuality and queerness

E: simon@roundincircles.org.uk


Molly Molloy
Strategic Producer

Molly Molloy is a creative producer, project manager and curator with a passion for community and collaborative projects. Molly sees her work as enabling people’s creativity, challenging concepts as to who is an artist, what the arts are and who can access it. She seeks to create an open and collaborative practice where a wider body people have access to creative opportunities, and to have their work seen and valued - gaining creative and transformative experiences. After a varied freelance career programming for festivals, playing in Salsa bands and working within the mental health and youth justice sector, she is currently based at Turner Contemporary as Learning and Audience Engagement Manager. 

E: molly@roundincircles.org.uk