Jenny Moore: Wild Mix
Rooted in communal singing, kickboxing, and drumming, this immersive musical embodies the daily practices of queer healing.
Wild Mix features a queer ensemble of five singers, drummers, and a kickboxer. They are friends, lovers, colleagues, housemates.
Through a soaring six-part song-cycle, multi-layered vocals, intense beats, and poignant storytelling, it asks: what does healing feel like? At its core lies a 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, shaping our interactions to elicit sound, it’s the soundscape’s heartbeat.
We gather ourselves up to create some kind of embodied, ritual ‘yes’. We ask – is it possible to sing yourself back to life?
Jenny Moore is a composer, singer, choir leader and performance artist. She founded and directs the 60-piece experimental F*Choir, composing and arranging for the diverse group of singers using non-gendered voice parts, graphic scores and no auditions to create highly energetic, rhythmic and political music. She has been commissioned by the National Girls Youth Choir, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, Camden Arts Centre and others.
Need to know
Writer/Performer/Director: Jenny Moore
With additional music by: Nandi Bhebhe
Cast & Co-Creators: Bianca Stephens, Luisa Gerstein, Barbara Pugliese, Sib Trigg, and Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani
Producer: Lucia Fortune-Ely, Metal & Water
Set Designer: Kit Falck
Lighting Designer: Marty Langthorne
Sound Designer: ky acab
Costume Designer: Jenny Moore
Stage Manager & Access Support: Moa Johansson
Movement Director: Nandi Bhebhe
Production Manager: Helen Mugridge
Choir Musical Director: Rubie Green
F*Choir: Annie Ring, Bee Godwin, Char Turton, Chrissy Mash, Elise Amal, Em Mercer, Fatos Usta, Frankie Légère, Hannah Leigh Mackie, Ishani Jasmin, Jeni Be, Judith Lösing, Julie Porter, Kate Burgess, Laurie Hartley, Lil Pietersen, Lotte Johnson, Majik, Marsha Franco, Mon Klavins, Naïma Ben Ayed, Naomi Walsh, Phoebe Nevill, Rose Jamieson, Scarlett Lassoff, Sophie Hoyle, Thelma Kokroko, Tulsi Parida, Ush Brown
Banner photo credit: Katarzyna Perlak
Video trailer: Nia Fekri
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