How many kisses do you need to give, and to receive — to feel loved? We once heard that to be happy you need to be kissed at least 12 times a day. And we heard it from a very reliable source: a character in a romantic comedy. What?! The beauty of a kiss is that it’s not always sexual. What’s it like to kiss a friend, a dog, an (ex-)lover, a brother, a dead person? Some kisses are so different from each other, it feels strange to even call them by the same word, let alone count them together. Or, what about the kisses that really shouldn’t have happened? Do they count too? With a lot of humour, physical comedy, deeply personal stories, and throwing each other on the floor wrestling style (!), we are going to figure out how many kisses we actually need.
Credits: Irina Koriazova - maker; Sanne van Dijk - maker, puppeteer; Titus Tiel Groenestege - creative advisor
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About the makers
Irina Koriazova and Sanne van Dijk met in 2022 when they were studying at the Mezrab Storytelling School. For 5 intense months, they developed their understanding of the craft alongside each other. They constantly trust the other to be the critical mirror of each other’s work. They believe in storytelling as an art form because it creates space for being incredibly vulnerable on stage: sharing your genuine feelings and intimate thoughts.
Irina started her career telling traditional stories (gruesome Russian folktales) in her own style. Eventually she realised that every folktale carried a piece of her own story and started to dive into her personal experiences and memories as material for her work.
Sanne is an experienced puppeteer, who was involved in multiple productions using puppets. She has worked with very different forms of puppetry; hand puppetry (foam, latex or fabric), object puppetry, and even marionettes and shadow puppetry.
In 2023, Sanne and Irina both created their first solo storytelling shows: VLOED and In Boxes respectively. Both shows were very personal, touching on subjects on femininity, innocence, establishing your borders and finding your voice.
About Amsterdam Fringe Festival
Each year in September, Amsterdam Fringe Festival showcases a mixture of theatre, performance and dance, created by new, upcoming and untamed talents.
We present a multidisciplinary program containing over 60 artists of diverse backgrounds, origins and futures. Our festival is a free zone for experiment and offers a stage to new makers and their stories. Amsterdam Fringe Festival is an ode to theatrical madness, independent minds and a plea to artistic freedom. A warm, intimate embrace of experimentation at its core: the outcome might be extremely surprising.
The entire city is our playground: from a rooftop to a club and into a theatre, north to south; for 11 days you can find us at 27 locations, spread across Amsterdam.
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Language: EN