Wild Mix will take place as part of No. 80 Festival, which also includes talks and workshops. The festival lasts from 3pm-11pm, and Wild Mix will take place from 9pm-10pm in the yard. A free ticket will give admission to all festival events.
Wild Mix, an immersive musical by Jenny Moore, features a queer ensemble of 5 singers, drummers, and a kickboxer. They are friends, lovers, colleagues, housemates. Through a 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.
We gather ourselves up to create some kind of embodied, ritual "yes."
We ask - is it possible to sing yourself back to life?
Written and Directed: Jenny Moore
Featuring: Bianca Stephens, Luisa Gerstein, Nandi Bhebhe, Sib Trigg, and Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani Assistant Direction: Georgia Frost Production: Lucia Fortune-Ely, Metal & Water
Set Design: Kit Falck Creative Development: Tanya Auclair, Tracky Crombie and F*Choir
Wild Mix is co-promoted with Young Women's Music Project as part of No. 80 Festival, in partnership with Cowley Collective, Divine Schism, Green Arts Oxfordshire Network, hyperstition, Modern Art Oxford, mom was right, and QBear.
Banner photo credit: Katarzyna Perlak
Video trailer: Nia Fekri