In an eclectic and sodden career Jenny Toune twinkled her toes into tap and was nearly fondled by Billy Idol. She embraced the smoke-filled cafes of Nimbin as a wanna-be Isadora Duncan, and was tossed lightly from the stage into the orchestra pit during a jitterbug contest!
South Australia’s bohemians and reprobates were (and still are) privy to her lyrical diatribes on everything from Hitler to heroin, and occasionally various publications inadvertently found her poetry and stories included in their anthologies. She’s still pulled between performance and the page, hence she has a very short attention span.
Jenny won awards for various underhanded undertakings in the world of poetry slams, dance, and on the printed page. She also wrote, co-directed and choreographed a contemporary dance theatre production, An Urban Jungle Tale, with a cast of forty performers aged 4-18 years.
Her most memorable moment was sharing the stage of the Duke Theatre, Forty Second Street, New York, with the legendary Ernest “Brownie” Brown at the New York City Tap Festival.
The rest, as they say, is on the flip side.