Mark delves into our recent online, international workshop. Exploring the power of connectivity as we led students over in Thailand in our approach to physical theatre... with a 4am start!

For 2023 we feel very lucky to have welcomed 2 brilliant new members to our Board of Trustees. Today we are meeting Ros Adams. Ros is the Director of Funding and Partnerships for Geese Theatre Company, and also a very proud Sprung Youth parent! 

Our next Professional Intensive training is just around the corner. Let's meet the Highly Sprung team who'll be delivering the masterclass.

Sprung Advance PLUS member takes us behind the scenes of the Enigma, their powerful headline show for Physical Fellowship 2023.

In March this year, Highly Sprung spent an emotional 2 weeks at the former Theresienstadt Ghetto for a residency with ISTA - the International Student Theatre Association. Mark takes us through what was an incredibly moving experience.

Sarah looks back at A Day Like This - a very special project delivered with the Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre and wonderful families from across the city. In September last year we ventured out on a day trip, and made memories that will last lifetime.

As Highly Sprung looks ahead to an exciting future, we are absolutely delighted to welcome Amanda Campbell as the new Chair of our Board of Trustees. We sat down to catch up, hear more about her work and her visions for the charity.

We can’t believe it’s already December! With 2022 nearly at an end, we asked our Highly Sprung family for their favourite moments from across the year. From touring our final shows of Urban Astronaut, to featuring on Sky Arts, to dancing with some very unruly corgis in Central London, we've covered a lot of ground! We hope you enjoy reliving some of the special memories.

Following the delay to NPO announcements, Mark reflects on our current tour of Storm. How we can move forward as a sector and integrate the arts in our young people's lives?

This week marks 25 years since a teenage Sarah and a gawky teenage Mark arrived at Coventry University for the first time. 22 years on, we are doing exactly what our training lead us towards. So... you can only imagine our excitement when this year we were approached by the university to see if we would work with their Theatre and Professional Practice students on their final year project.

For us to deliver our creative performances and interventions at Highly Sprung, we use an embodied approach. I'm going to try and explain here a little of how this works in practice, and share a few of the principles that inform our methodology.

In June 2022, I went with North Leamington School to the Belgrade Theatre for Highly Sprung’s ‘Changing Climates’ festival. In my blog I take you behind the scenes of the incredible workshops and performances we experienced.

Guest Blog from Abi: My work experience has been an amazing experience and has definitely helped me understand what it takes to run a theatre company, and open my eyes to different jobs in the performing arts.

Throughout the development of new dance film Out Out, which I have had the pleasure to work with Highly Sprung on, I have found some key themes that represent the intention and atmosphere of this LGBTQ+ centred performance.

Earlier this year we were approached by the fantastic lecturing team at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire’s Stage Management course, to ask whether we would consider working with their third years on their final creative project. Sarah delves into the process and our experiencing lecturing their cohort of Stage Management students.

I believe that theatre is an effective way of exploring major problems like climate change. Seeing the next generation stand for change and actively wanting to protect the future has the power to change the ways of the world, by allowing audiences to pause, watch and listen.

This guest blog is from Eve, a part of the Coventry Young Producers Collective. Eve looks at the climate crisis, how the Changing Climates Festival from Highly Sprung is making a difference, and what simple steps we could all take to work towards change.

It's nearly a year since our online festival the Physical Fellowship: Unlocked, but you can still relive the performances, creative responses and workshops right here.