“I am overwhelmed with validity that their words and their voices have been given…it's been pretty incredible.” Jasmine Gardosi, Birmingham poet laureate

“The climate emergency is the most serious challenge humanity has ever faced. Theatre can play an essential part in our response. So theatre must become environmentally sustainable.” The Theatre Green Book and Highly Sprung

The End of January is hard; Christmas bills, the weather, the cost of living crisis and the lack of sunshine, it’s no wonder that the last Monday of the month is called blue Monday. Is Highly Sprung possibly a perfect antidote to the difficult pressures that our young people are facing?

What a year! 2024 has seen Highly Sprung work with thousands of children and young people through performances, in schools, with our Young Producers programme, Sprung Youth and SO much more. Today we're looking back at our highlights and the impact we've made through our work.

An insight into the strands of Youth Voice running through out work, and a dive into what we've been up to this year.

How do Sprung Advance PLUS create their headline show for the Physical Fellowship? This editorial takes you behind the scenes.

From Tue 19th - Tue 26th March, we're fundraising for GROW, as part of the Big Give's Arts for Impact campaign... and donations will be match-funded! Learn more about this transformative performance, inspiring a love to nature in our youngest audiences.

Since 2019, we’ve been working with Barr’s Hill School and Community College in Coventry, delivering drama and physical theatre workshops as Artists in Residence. Read more to hear from the Assistant Headteacher about this unique partnership.

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.