Suspended 20ft in the air, spinning, turning, flipping on a flying machine, the Urban Astronaut visit us from the future to save the earth.

Urban Astronaut provides a glimpse of a future that might be… Where problems surrounding air pollution have grown to a crisis point, is there any way back? The answer is found in a simple encounter with a young girl who provides the one thing the astronaut has lost… hope.

Combining stunning design and a unique traveling flying machine with simple storytelling and a moving dance performance, Urban Astronaut searches for a solution to the environmental disaster that is present in our near future. Follow this extraordinary piece of physical theatre as it travels through the City Centre.

Check out and download the full programme including all performance details in our Big Feast 17 Big Brochure.

Get a sneaky glimpse of the show in the Urban Astronaut film.

About Highly Sprung Performance
Highly Sprung Performance is a Midlands based physical performance company producing inspiring performance and participatory projects that attract new and young audiences. Providing innovative and original projects that involve, engage and excite. The company creates work using a style of performance where movement speaks and text moves.

Highly Sprung’s unique approach to using physical theatre is founded on the creation of a physical language to tell stories and explore themes, using gesture, high-energy, often risk-taking dynamic movement, expressive communication of narrative that is spoken and portrayed through movement and which places an emphasis on ensemble as core to its devising process.

The company was founded in 2000 and has an impressive record of public productions, both in arts venues and across UK festivals and events.  We are also recognised for producing outstanding participatory projects, working with over 9000 children and young people annually both in education and the community, to high acclaim.

“My nine year old daughter was completely taken in by your performance. I could tell her about what’s going on with the planet again and again and it would just go over her head. What you’ve just done there, will stay with her forever.”
 
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Commissioned by Without Walls and Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival, Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Out There International Festival of Circus & Street Arts. Supported by Gi20.

About Without Walls
Without Walls, a consortium of 10 of the UK’s leading Outdoor Arts festivals and organisations, brings the best in new outdoor performance to diverse audiences all over the UK, providing opportunities for UK artists to develop bold new ideas – from large-scale spectaculars to more intimate pieces, inclusive of all art forms and genres. Since 2007, Without Walls has commissioned and supported over 90 shows, many of which have toured beyond Without Walls to 22 countries across the world.

Images courtesy of Rajvi Vaya.