Attributes
- Duration 1h 30m
- Type General Entertainment
Wild Mix is the new acclaimed musical by Jenny Moore, featuring a queer ensemble of five singers, drummers, a kickboxer, and a choir. They are lovers, colleagues, housemates, friends. Through this soaring six-part song cycle, multi-layered vocals, intense beats, and poignant storytelling, it asks: what does healing feel like?
At its core lies Jenny’s unique instrument: a transparent, water-filled boxing bag with a hydrophone. Weighing 50 kilograms and towering like a human torso, the bag fosters a deeply personal, corporeal sonic relationship with those in the room – acting as the soundscape's heartbeat.
Join Jenny on Wednesday 7 May, 7-9pm for Sing to Stay Alive, an open choral workshop exploring the themes of the show.
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Credits
Writer and Director: Jenny Moore
Movement Director: Nandi Bhebhe
Set and Boxing Bag Design: Kit Falck
Production: Lucia Fortune-Ely, Metal & Water
Performed by:
Jenny Moore
Nandi Bhebhe
Bianca Stephens
Luisa Gerstein
Sib Trigg
Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani
Development support from F*Choir: Tanya Auclair and Georgia Frost
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About the artist
Jenny is a composer, singer, drummer and live artist originally from Canada. Voice and rhythm propel her compositional work, deep-rooted somatic storytelling is at the heart of her writing and directing. This practice works from the body, rhythm, oral/aural traditions, with the theories of muscular bonding and Deep Listening, and choreographic tools for tuning, sensing and expanding music. She believes music is a social creature, ripe for political movement. Jenny founded and directs the queer liberation choir: F*Choir, offering complex, percussive ear-worms that challenge singers to be full-body vocalists, incorporating percussive elements and expanded vocal technique. 15 years of teaching and facilitation experience support her playful and heart-felt conducting style.
Other projects include: London-based choral-punk ensemble Jenny Moore’s Mystic Business known for their tuned percussion, huge vocals and chanted soulful mantras, a mix of the 90's R&B and post-punk Jenny grew up with. Their debut EP, "He Earns Enough," was released on Lost Map Records in 2021, with The Piano Tapes Vol. 1, recorded live in St Barnabas, Dalston following in 2022.
She's a regular on the London DIY scene in bands like the dance-punk trio Charismatic Megafauna and Bas Jan, hosts a radio show on Soho Radio called 'Hitting Things,' and recently made her theatre debut as Composer for Robin Hood: The Legend Re-Written at Regents’ Park Open Air Theatre.
