When it comes to the environment, are we really ready for change?
Exposing the flaws of our relationship with energy, Accelerate from Highly Sprung is a daring physical spectacle. Combining dark humour, bold movement, aerial performance and conveyor belt dance.
The planet is fighting back and it’s getting messy, with the ‘dirty’ energy that fuels us running out of steam. Accelerate explores how climate change is directly affecting the world’s fuel supply and energy production, as well as impacting the physical resilience of energy infrastructures and ultimately our mental health, as a result of fuel poverty.
Performers battle through daily life, juggling with the exhausting demands of the day to day, struggling to find the energy. With only so much fuel to get them through, reserves begin to run low. There’s no choice – they must look for alternatives.
Drawing on years of experience creating environmentally charged spectacle work, Highly Sprung continue to develop new ways to tell compelling stories, and inspire action around climate change.
Originally produced thanks to fuinding from Heart of England Community Foundation, WMCA, United by Legacy 2022, UK Government and the Commonwealth Games organisers.