Your Leaders

Colleen: Colleen has been a member of the Sprung team for nearly five years and brings a wealth of experience as both a performer and facilitator. Colleen loves playing games and helping children to develop their own performance ideas. Colleen is an expert in helping children find their voice, using text as part of story-telling and performance making.

Aaron: Aaron is a skilled dancer and performer with a brilliant sense of fun. Aaron loves creating exciting and challenging movement which develops creativity and increases children’s skills. Aaron has a brilliant imagination which inspires movement ideas and his kind and generous approach means it’s impossible to not get involved.

What you will do

Sessions are always practical and very active, requiring high levels of energy and participation throughout.

All sessions start with a group game to welcome young people into the space.

Question of the week is an important part of the session, which brings young people’s voice, thoughts and opinions into the room and is a good way of saying hello to everyone.

Game is a key part of every session. With high energy movement games which allow young people to get physically warmed up as well as developing collaborative skills. Games are followed by skill building activities, which might include relays to build movement vocabulary or introductory activities to contact work on learning to lift and shift each other through the space.

Often the main part of the session will be spent creating work, developing ideas, in response to a script, story, theme or rehearsing work that was made in previous sessions if there is a sharing or performance event coming up.

What to wear and bring

The work created at the workshops is of a very physical nature. We ask that all participants wear loose fitting trousers/tracksuit bottoms.

We have a strict NO JEANS OR SKIRTS policy.

Young people will work in bare foot (unless prevented for health reasons). These requirements are for your young person’s safety and for the safety of others. Outdoor shoes are not permitted on the dance floor.

During the session there will always be the opportunity to have a drink. We advise that they bring a small bottle or flask with them.

No packed lunches please.

Please do not bring any nut or nut products to the sessions.

The Venue

The Daimler Powerhouse is the former site of car-manufacturer Daimler.

After many years of planning and fundraising, redevelopment of The Daimler Powerhouse began in June 2020 with support from Coventry City of Culture 2021.

The building provides dedicated space for artists to create and for resident creative companies to deliver innovative programmes of education and training for children and young people.

The re-developed Daimler Powerhouse is a place where people come together to collaborate, to make new work and where new and exciting ideas can be realised.

Daimler has been home to Sprung Youth for many years and is an accessible, welcoming and safe space in which you can be your most creative self. All our sessions take place in the large upstairs movement space, which is accessible by both stairs or by lift.

Keeping You Safe

Highly Sprung have a commitment to keeping young people safe whilst working with us.

As part of this commitment all team members and volunteers receive ongoing training and clear reporting procedures are in place, which are reviewed regularly.