Highly Sprung Performance

Who we are

HELLO... WE ARE HIGHLY SPRUNG…

Highly Sprung is a physical theatre company where performances and participatory projects are produced with and for new audiences of children and young people. Working together is at the core of everything we do. Our inclusive shared approach to physical theatre creates a physical language that enables children and young people to tell stories and explore global themes, using accessible, gestural, high-energy, and often risk-taking dynamic movement. We share stories through movement that speaks of the world our children and young people will create their futures in.

Highly Sprung use physical theatre to invite collaboration, contribution, and discovery. Celebrating difference and the unique physical language that our way of working produces when creating performance work or delivering learning experiences. We are England’s physical theatre company for children and young people.

Our culture and values

Highly Sprung tell compelling and relevant stories using physical theatre where text moves and movement speaks. Providing access to our work with and for children and young people to produce bold, spectacular performances and unforgettable experiences in unexpected ways, spaces, and places that inspires change. We champion the thoughts, feelings and opinions of children and young people and produce physical theatre with and for them that is valued as a legitimate dimension of our national arts sector and as an essential part of growing up that can create better lives.

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

Highly Sprung are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and being truly inclusive, to reflect the communities we create work for and with. As the group of people ultimately responsible for the charity and with the power to determine strategy and direction, it’s vital that our board of Trustees are diverse in thought and lived experience. 

We particularly encourage applications from people who are underrepresented in the cultural sector including people of the global majority, disabled people, people who identify as trans, gender-diverse and part of the LGBTQIA+ community. We also encourage applicants who are under the age of 45, who are specifically currently underrepresented on our board. 

Highly Sprung are based at Daimler Powerhouse in Coventry, the building and office are fully accessible to wheelchair users.

Highly Sprung is an equal opportunities employer and has an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Plan aimed at improving representation across our work.