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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

For the Physical Fellowship, we decided to take you inside the rehearsal room, giving you an exclusive insight into how we create and develop  our work. Below are our devising masterclasses from Highly Sprung, looking at four techniques: Yes No Maybe, 3’s a Crowd, Rhythm & Ensemble, and Sequencing. 

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.

Unlocked Info Pack
Unlocked Inspiration Bank
A festival schedule for the Physical Fellowship: Unlocked.
We hope that the Physical Fellowship: Unlocked has inspired  you to think about the brilliance of the young people that we work with.

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.

Sponsor a Sprungster. Help Another Young Person Find Their Me.

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.

Produce

Highly Sprung artists hold two whole-day workshops with participating schools and youth groups to teach physical theatre skills. Students are inspired to use physical techniques to then create their own piece of original physical theatre.

Participate

Students then attend a day of workshops, seminars and masterclasses delivered by visiting professional companies, including Frantic Assembly and Complicité. Here they further develop and explore new skills with leading professionals.

Perform

Students are then given a professional platform to present their work in a festival showcase, supported by a headline performance from Highly Sprung’s own youth theatre company, Sprungsters.

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“A wonderful combination of fun and hard work and a great opportunity to take part in an intensive devising process.”

What People Say

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“Very fun, energetic and teaches you skills you can’t learn anywhere else. Thanks Highly Sprung and everyone who made the Physical Fellowship great”

“Great experience and a lovely thing to be a part of, learnt lots”

“Once again the Physical Fellowship shows that Highly Sprung and all the young people involved can transcend ‘youth theatre’ and bring to the professionals a run for their money!”

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