(Toronto) Alanis Morissette knows her jerky body movements in concert are unorthodox, but she explains it’s because she has so much pent-up energy in her body that she “can barely hold it in.”
“I always had the impression of being a poodle in the body of a black stallion,” the Ottawa singer illustrated earlier this week. I am an introvert in this extremely extroverted lifestyle. »
Morissette says the intimacy of the scene resembles “in a strange way […] like a little glittering fishbowl.”
And even though she’s toned down the energy of her dance moves in recent years, she still lives for the “holy moment” of performing on stage.
The You Oughta Know singer reflected on her stage presence while talking about the production of the musical Jagged Little Pill, which begins performances October 24 for a month-long run at the Princess of Wales Theater in Toronto.
The musical revolves around a family’s struggles, set to songs from Morissette’s 1995 debut album of the same name. Its Tony Award-winning book is written by Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody.
Jagged Little Pill is Morissette’s first stage production, and although she doesn’t appear in it, she said it inspired her to pursue her own one-woman show that would “really get into the nuts and bolts” of her life .
“I have to tell this story,” she said from northern California, where she now lives. And you need humor, music and movement. »
She added: “It might not happen tomorrow, but it’s something that needs to be expressed. »
“I give myself ten years. »
