
Welcome to the Physical Fellowship: Unlocked!
Scroll down to view, learn from and (most importantly) enjoy our resources and videos from the festival!
The Physical Fellowship is the UK’s only physical performance festival exclusively for young people. established over 10 years ago. This year, we had to take the festival online. Our digital edition took place from the 29th June – 3rd July and celebrated the creativity of young people during lockdown.
Scroll down to relive ALL of the brilliant content we shared for the Physical Fellowship: Unlocked.
Still available:
- Masterclasses and tutorials from Highly Sprung
- Our daily headline shows with creative responses from young people, along with ‘WAKE,’ and ‘THE UNSEEN’ from the Sprungsters
- A full film of Seen But Never Heard 2019
- The ‘Backstage Gossip’ podcast series
- Throwback videos to previous festival shows
- Ideas for creating your own responses to ‘Unlocked’
Unlock your imagination, free your mind and unleash your talent.
Physical Fellowship
Headline Performances
Every evening, our directors Sarah and Mark took us through the evening programme. We shared creative responses to the theme ‘Unlocked,’ a documentary about our 2014 show ‘PALS,’ hosted a Q & A and premiered two new digital performances from the Sprungsters: ‘WAKE’ and ‘THE UNSEEN.’
Highly Sprung
Devising Masterclasses
Festival Throwbacks
Backstage Gossip
with the Sprungsters
Unlocked Tutorials
Unlocked is a project for you to get involved in this year’s festival. Watch our tutorials below to inspire your own work.
We asked you to get involved by making a creative response on the theme of ‘Unlocked’. Thank you for all of the wonderful submissions we have received – we have loved sharing them across the Physical Fellowship week.
Although the festival is over, we would still love for you to get creative! Watch the tutorials below, and have a go at creating your own work. If you would like to share it, tag us on social media @HighlySprung #PFUnlocked.
Step One: Respond to the theme Unlocked. Use the Inspiration Bank to select a story, inspirational quote, famous person’s life story or even a piece of art work to inspire your response.
Step Two: Create your response. Use a video tutorial to give you some ideas about how you might create your response.
Step Three: Share your response and tag us!
For more information download the information pack or get started using one of the videos below.

As part of this digital festival we’re asking you to consider whether you would Sponsor A Sprungster. Could you donate the amount that you would have usually spent on a ticket coming to see the festival?
Every pound will go straight back into our work with young people, and we will also be investing in new programmes, taking Sprungsters into the community to connect with young people that haven’t yet worked with us. Everyone should have the right to unlock their potential, and we want our work to be accessible to all.
If you like to make a donation, however big or small, please visit our Sponsor a Sprungster page here.
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 24-year-olds to immerse themselves completely in physical theatre practice, working with renowned professional artists to make and present original work.