Highly Sprung Performance

Highly Sprung Performance Co. is the UK's leading physical theatre company making work for and with children and young people. Theatre that empowers young people to make sense of themselves and the world around them, discovering their unique voice. With over 20 years award-winning experience, we take theatre beyond words, creating outdoor and indoor performances that tell stories of our histories and our futures primarily through movement, gesture and dance. Our work is playful and inventive, but also unashamedly provocative and poignant. We’re also talent developers, believing passionately that everyone has an innate ability to perform. We have developed the UK’s only Physical Theatre Fellowship programme for emerging artists. We run weekly performance workshops for children and young people, and countless projects in primary and secondary schools across the UK and internationally. Highly Sprung's Values: Our values underpin how we approach our work, how we behave. They are central to all we do: Ambitious - for our audiences and for the young people we work with. We know young people are capable of great things and we can help realise these ambitions. Curious -  about everything. We are continually exploring and discovering stories that deserve to be told. Provoking curiosity in others. Bold -  in challenging expectation and convention, in making work that’s brave and feels right. But we’re never arrogant or aggressive. Open - in how we work. Making the creative process transparent and accessible to everyone. Opening our minds to new ideas, and our eyes to finding and nurturing new talent. Inventive - and prepared to push boundaries when we need to. We’re always exploring new ways to create and make work, taking risks along the way. Our imaginations are limitless. Playful - making it easy to be creative and motivated, breaking down boundaries and enabling the exploration of new ideas. For us, playing is serious.