I am one of the creators of Kissing Project an ongoing multimedia storytelling platform.
Hosting dinners over the last three years in our home cities of London, Paris, Chicago and Los Angeles, my co-creator, Carolyn Defrin and I, audio-recorded our guests’ humorous, passionate and sorrowful stories that began with a kiss. With connections to family, friends, lovers, identities, places and histories, these original recordings form the basis for three projects: an original dance theatre piece, an audiovisual installation and a developing online library of kissing stories where people across the globe will be able to share stories of care and healing.
“Through hundreds of conversations we’ve had about kissing in the last three years, we have discovered how much a kiss can be a radical act of care, and how sharing stories about kisses can be just as radical.” (Defrin & Boucher)
For more information about the project, please visit Kissing Project.
Photos below from “Kissing Rebellion”, a dance-theatre piece which premiere at Ovalhouse Theatre in London in 2019 by Rosie Powell.
