Physical Fellowship - Highly Sprung Performance

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Physical Fellowship

The Physical Fellowship

The UK’s only physical performance festival exclusively for young people.

Highly Sprung’s Physical Fellowship was established over ten years ago to give young people the opportunity to explore their understanding and experience of physical theatre.

To this day, it remains a unique and exciting opportunity for 11 to 19-year-olds to immerse themselves completely in physical theatre practice, working with renowned professional artists to make and present original work.

Changing Climates Festival

Tickets available soon for our 2022 edition of the Physical Fellowship

Highly Sprung are thrilled to announce that the Changing Climates festival will return this year, once again at our partner the Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Tuesday 7th – Friday 10th June 2022. This year’s festival will be viewing the climate crisis through the lens of ‘voice’, examining the influence and impact of young people’s opinions and how they are heard, or more likely not heard.

Tickets will be available in May 2022 – watch this space.

Learn more

Produce

Highly Sprung artists hold two whole-day workshops with participating schools and youth groups to teach physical theatre skills. Students are inspired to use physical techniques to then create their own piece of original physical theatre.

Participate

Students then attend a day of workshops, seminars and masterclasses delivered by visiting professional companies, including Frantic Assembly and Complicité. Here they further develop and explore new skills with leading professionals.

Perform

Students are then given a professional platform to present their work in a festival showcase, supported by a headline performance from Highly Sprung’s own youth theatre company, Sprungsters.

Gallery

A group of young people are crouched in a circle on a stage lit up in green. A young female with braided blonde hair stands in front. She is wearing tracksuit bottoms and a grey jacket.

A group of students are sat on stage in a semi circle, watching a man giving a talk.

A dark stage, with a blue-lit backdrop and an image of the sun. On stage are 2 young people reaching their arms up towards the sun.

A large sculpture of a globe, with a pair of hands reaching towards it on a stage. It is made of clear plastic and is lit in blue and green.

A group of young performers lifting a performer into the air. Background is lit red with smoke.

A group of young people crowded together. A young female with glasses stands in the centre with her hands posed together.

A group of performers on stage, holding umbrellas. Behind them, more umbrellas are attached to the wall. All of them are wearing grey except one who is wearing a back t-shirt.

A group of performers are stood on stage with smoke over them.

A young person with a long brown ponytail with a green streak in their fringe and a red hair tie. They are wearing a white top with grey bottoms. Another person is sat opposite them with short dark hair is smiling. They are wearing all black. They are both holding onto a blue and white object.

A large group of performers are on stage, stood or sat with their arms to the side.

A group of young people in shirts and ties look at another performer stood on a bed.

A young person in and all black hooded tracksuit is stood with their hands on their waist. They are being instructed by a female with shorter red hair, she is wearing a grey jumper and blue bottoms.

A group of performers reach outwards with their hands.

A young performer is stood with their arms outstretched, screaming while other performers stand behind.

A young person in red and white stands with their hand in the air. Other performers behind them hold a similar pose.

A group of young performers stand in lines, arms on each others arms connected to another perform in the centre.

A group of performers stand on stage with their arms raised golding up pages from a book.

A performer stands reading from a page in front of a silhouette of a soldier.

Performers in overalls looks happily at an item in a person's hand.

Three performers are mid jump, on top of a projected image on stage.

a performer in a brown cardigan stands with their hands grasped looking shocked in from of another performer stood with their arms raised.

students in yellow polo shirts laugh with each other.

Changing Climates Festival 2022

Changing Climates Festival

Tickets available soon for our 2022 edition of the Physical Fellowship

Highly Sprung are thrilled to announce that the Changing Climates festival will return this year, once again at our partner the Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Tuesday 7th – Friday 10th June 2022.

About the Festival:

The 2022 Physical Fellowship will be produced by Coventry Young Producers Collective, a group of students in Years 10 and 11. It will take place at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, with a programme of workshops and performances, focussing in on the theme of the climate crisis.

It is our ambition to use our art form, physical theatre, to engage, build capacity for action and provide opportunities to develop and galvanise young voices around this pressing issue. This year’s festival will be viewing the climate crisis through the lens of ‘voice’, examining the influence and impact of young people’s opinions and how they are heard, or more likely not heard.

What impact does freedom of speech/expression or the lack of it have in promoting or contributing to climate change?
What say do we really have? And who’s listening anyway?

Silence Amplified is this year’s headline performance, devised by Highly Sprung’s acclaimed youth performance group Sprung Advance. The piece examines how we can find expression and develop opinion and language where we are denied a voice. Set in a world where air pollution has gone beyond crisis point and has shifted life into new ways of being… Breathing is now taxed, and words spoken are charged by the second. In this new world, young people are forced underground to find new ways to exist, grow and express themselves.

Tickets available soon – watch this space.

What People Say

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“Very fun, energetic and teaches you skills you can’t learn anywhere else. Thanks Highly Sprung and everyone who made the Physical Fellowship great”

“Great experience and a lovely thing to be a part of, learnt lots”

“Once again the Physical Fellowship shows that Highly Sprung and all the young people involved can transcend ‘youth theatre’ and bring to the professionals a run for their money!”

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