Based on Jenny Moore’s Wild Mix, a new choral musical about queer rituals for survival, this workshop offers a space to vocalise, vibrate, expand and test the ritual of communal singing as a survival mechanism. For anyone who has been told to shut up or distrust their body.

This tender and creative workshop allows audiences to experience the practice behind the performance and offers the opportunity to participate in the public performance of Wild Mix the following week.

This workshop is open to everyone from professional singers, movers, performers and artists to community choirs, shower singers, or anyone aching to open their mouths and sing.

“In other words, we’re gathering for some singing/ witnessing/world-building. Times are heavy, bodies are aching, grief is immense.

I sing to be seen, to be in community, to practice vulnerability. To tell the truth. This is rooted in my own story as the founder and co-creator of F*Choir – a queer feminist community choir that meets regularly to practice embodied polyphony, working on powerful music that feels hot in the moment and supports us in our daily lives.

Through song, we’ll practice holding space and being held, creating a sonic, embodied way of saying, ‘I’ve got you.’ And a sonic, embodied way of saying, ‘Ok. I’ll let go.’” – Jenny Moore

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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, and 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 earworms 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 heartfelt 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.