Flying Leap Productions empowers families to leap across perceived boundaries together and towards each other, into a more liberated world where kids own their agency to ask challenging questions and take action, and adults have the tools to navigate tough topics alongside them.
Our Mission:
At Flying Leap, we make thoughtful, participatory performance around complicated or difficult subject matter, for families to experience together. Our performances take place in the community, outside traditional theater spaces, and we make them in direct collaboration with our artists and our audience. With a core emphasis on accessibility and joy, our performances offer a foundation for discussion between children and their families.
Our performances...
take place in all sorts of community spaces (but not in theaters);
are for families to experience together – kids and their caregivers;
are created by a group of artists working together with input from the community;
are interactive and fun! No matter how you move through the world, there's a way to enjoy the performance on your own terms.
...and when you go home, you'll feel ready to talk about something with your family that may have felt too complicated before.
The Garden – a radically inclusive, meditative performance exploring the life cycle with very young children and their families in public green spaces. In The Garden, families experience the life cycle through all five senses – through movement theater, poetic text in multiple languages, and interactive play – seated in the grass beneath the open sky in their local public park(Learn more at flying-leap.com/garden)
Beyond the Wall – 15 foot tall puppets of children made by children meet at the US/Mexico border wall. Beyond the Wall is a collaboration between Mexican and American artists and educators exploring cultural identity with borderland youth. (Learn More at flying-leap.com/beyond-the-wall)
_______ Next Up in Development:
Play/Time – Set a timer for 10 seconds, and wait. How did that feel? What does 10 seconds feel like? This digital, immersive, interactive adventure plays with time, and what it feels like in our bodies.
Duck, Death and the Tulip, a new play adapted from Wolf Erlbruch’s quiet, beautiful picture book exploring our earliest existential thoughts through the eyes of a young Duck as she forms a tender friendship with Death.
I Can Tell, a verbatim play about death created with young people in grief counseling.
