Jenny Moore
Jenny Moore, Doing Not Saying, 2020. Image Credit: Johanne Karlsrud
Jenny Moore is a composer, singer, choir leader and performance artist. Voice and rhythm propels her compositional work, deep-rooted somatic storytelling is at the heart of her writing and directing. Moore founded and directs the 60-piece experimental FChoir, composing and arranging for the diverse group of singers using non-gendered voice parts, graphic scores, no auditions to create highly energetic, rhythmic and political music.
She works alongside theatre makers, movers, singers, producers, actors, athletes, and activists to develop emergent, multi-pronged collaborations and artistic outputs.
Wild Mix
2023- tour ongoing
Jenny Moore (Concept, Direction, Composer), Nandi Bhebhe (Performer & Movement Direction), Bianca Stephens, Luisa Gerstein, Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani and Sib Trigg (Performance), Georgia Frost (Dramaturgy 2023), Tanya Auclair (Research and Development Performer), Kit Falck (Punch Bag Design and Making), Lucia Fortune-Ely, Nancy May Roberts, Metal & Water (Production)
Wild Mix is an immersive choral punk musical - a storytelling song cycle performed by a queer choir & crew of kickboxers and Moore’s new instrument: a water-filled boxing bag fitted with a hydrophone as the beating heart of the soundscape. They're friends, lovers, colleagues, housemates. They're trying to figure out how to feel alive.
Rooted in communal singing, kickboxing and drumming, the work is built from these embodied practices that Jenny and her comrades use in their daily lives.For survival. For joy. To fall in step, to align, to figure out, how can we be alone, together? With vocals and drums, punch-bags and beats, we gather ourselves up to create some kind of embodied, ritual "yes." We ask - is it possible to sing yourself back to life?
Wild Mix is composed of 5 singers, drummers, a kickboxer and her new instrument: a water-filled boxing bag fitted with a hydrophone as the beating heart of the soundscape. In keeping with Moore's joyful, highly energetic, political work, there'll be loads and loads of singing, some storytelling, some bangers, some sad ones.
Katazyna Perlak