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.

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
Perform
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.