Highly Sprung takes theatre beyond words, creating stunning indoor and outdoor performances which have toured nationally and internationally
Highly Sprung Performance is the UK’s leading physical theatre company creating work with and for children and young people. As a charitable organisation, we use our signature approach to empower young people, helping them find their unique performance style and discover their voice.
Our work is playful, inventive, provocative and poignant. We take theatre beyond words, creating award-winning outdoor and indoor performances that tell stories of our histories and our futures primarily through movement, gesture and dance. Stories inspired by humanity, science and the complex world around us. Stories inspired by young people.
In 2020 we were awarded the Pearson’s Teaching Gold Award for our collaboration in commemorative arts engagement project Echo Eternal, working with the Core Education Trust and schools across the West Midlands. For the last 20 years, Highly Sprung has worked with primary and secondary schools across the UK and internationally and runs weekly performance workshops in Coventry for children and young people aged 5-18.
Highly Sprung is best known for Urban Astronaut, which has toured over 40 venues and festivals internationally, as well as Home, an aerial spectacle celebrating Coventry’s history. We are also known for the Physical Fellowship, the UK’s only festival exclusively for young people and emerging artists, now running for 10 years. For 2021, we are premiering a new environmentally themed spectacle CastAway, inspiring vital conversations on the climate crisis and featuring the world’s first fully gyroscopic flying machine.
Aerial, Dance, Physical Theatre, Street Theatre, Walkabout
Additional Areas of Focus
Community Engagement, Corporate Entertainment, Cultural Diversity, Environmentally Focussed, Family Friendly, Participatory, Placemaking, Youth Engagement
