Sing to Stay Alive: Artist Development with Jenny Moore & Wild Mix

Convening a mix of local artists, movers, makers, and musicians, this workshop will foster collaborative, cross-arts environments led by lead artist Jenny Moore and members of the Wild Mix company. They will focus on learning & expanding the unique methodologies, repertoire and rituals found in Moore’s body of work and gathering creative data from the co-created, experimental space created between participants. These workshops not only supplement the development of the movement score of our musical - Wild Mix - but also grow the potential for touring and casting in 2025, growing a network of exciting artists to work with that we might not find in traditional castings.

About Wild Mix

Wild Mix is a new acclaimed musical by Jenny Moore, featuring a queer ensemble of 5 singers, drummers, a kickboxer, and ultimately, a choir. They are lovers, colleagues, housemates, friends. Through this soaring 6-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, shaping our interactions to elicit sound—it's the soundscape's heartbeat. Rooted in communal singing, kickboxing, and drumming, Wild Mix embodies the daily practices of queer healing.
Collaborators and performers include Nandi Bhebhe, Luisa Gerstein, Bianca Stephens, Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani, and Sib Trigg with development support from London's queer feminist ensemble F*Choir.

About the artist

Jenny is a composer, singer, drummer and live artist originally from Canada. Voice and rhythm propels 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 arranges and writes for 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.

Her new experimental choral punk musical, "Wild Mix" - a queer kickboxing, drumming, singing ritual - is currently in development.

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.