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British dancer, actor, and mime

Lindsay Kemp
Lindsay Kemp 2016 (cropped).jpg

Kemp in 2016
Born

Lindsay Keith Kemp


(1938-05-03)3 May 1938

Birkenhead, England
Died 24 Baronial 2018(2018-08-24) (aged 80)

Livorno, Italia
Nationality British
Known for Dance, thespian, mime creative person
Website lindsaykemp.eu

Lindsay Keith Kemp (3 May 1938[1] – 24 Baronial 2018)[2] [3] [4] was a British dancer, player, teacher, mime artist, and choreographer.[5]

He was probably all-time known for his 1974 flagship production of Flowers, a mime and music show based on Jean Genet's novel Our Lady of the Flowers, in which he played the lead role of 'Divine'. Owing to its homosexual themes and perceived decadence, reviews were sometimes hostile, but information technology was widely considered a theatrical and sensory sensation, and it toured globally for many years.[6] He was also a mentor to David Bowie and Kate Bush.[7]

Early life [edit]

Kemp was built-in in Birkenhead,[viii] only grew up in South Shields, near Newcastle upon Tyne.[9] His father, a seaman, was lost at ocean in 1940.[x] According to Kemp, he danced from early childhood: "I'd dance on the kitchen table to entertain the neighbours. I mean, information technology was a novelty in Due south Shields to see a footling boy in full make-up dancing on pointe. Finally it got a flake too much for my female parent, and she decided to send me to boarding school at the age of eight, hoping that it would knock some sense into me."[x] Kemp's mother moved away from S Shields, and Kemp attended Bearwood College, most Wokingham, a schoolhouse for the sons of merchant seamen.[10] He and his female parent later moved to Bradford, Yorkshire, where Kemp attended Bradford Art College earlier studying dance with Hilde Holger[xi] [12] [xiii] and mime with Marcel Marceau.[fourteen] In the 1950s, he did National Service in the RAF. In an interview with the BBC, he fondly remembered being shouted at for being unable to march properly due to his want to dance.[xv]

Trip the light fantastic career [edit]

Kemp played the Actor Queen in the BBC'due south Shakespeare Quatercentenary production Hamlet at Elsinore (recorded at Elsinore castle) in 1963, which starred Christopher Plummer.[1] He formed his own trip the light fantastic toe company in the early sixties and start attracted attention with an advent at the Edinburgh Festival in 1968 with Flowers based on Jean Genet's Notre Dame des Fleurs (Our Lady of the Flowers).[16] [17] Its extraordinary dream-similar opening scene of prisoners masturbating in their cells, while the silhouette of a cute male affections walked slowly across the stage, his wings reaching almost to the top of the proscenium, established the tone.

Kemp'south stage performances include Pierrot In Turquoise, Salome,[10] Mr Punch'southward Pantomime, A Midsummer Dark's Dream, Duende, Nijinsky, Alice, Cenerentola (Cinderella),[5] Nijinsky il matto (1983) (translation: Nijinsky the fool) Façade, The Big Parade, Alice, Onnagata, Cinderella, Variété, Dream Dances, and, for Ballet Rambert, Parades Gone By (1975) and Brutal Garden (1977),[18] [19] virtually of these works in collaboration with composer Carlos Miranda. Variété was later produced past Youth Music Theatre UK at the Riverside Studios in 2013 directed by Kinny Gardner.[xx]

During the early 1970s, Kemp was a popular and inspirational teacher of dance and mime.[10] David Bowie,[21] [22] Kate Bush[23] and Vivian Stanshall[24] were students of Kemp. He staged and performed in Bowie'due south Ziggy Stardust concerts at London's Rainbow Theatre in August 1972, with Jack Birkett,[25] and appears in the promotional video for Bowie's single "John, I'm Only Dancing", directed past Mick Rock.[26] Bush after wrote the vocal "Moving", which appeared on her debut album The Kick Within, as a tribute to Kemp.[23] [27] Bush besides contributed vocals to Zaine Griff'due south song "Flowers", which is also a tribute to Kemp.[28]

Kemp'south film roles include a supporting role in the Kate Bush-league short moving-picture show The Line, the Cross & the Curve (1994),[23] a dancer and cabaret performer in Derek Jarman's Sebastiane [29] (1976) and Jubilee (1977)[29] respectively, a pantomime dame in Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine (1998)[30] and the pub landlord Alder MacGregor in Anthony Shaffer's The Wicker Human (1973).[29] [thirty]

In the field of opera he occasionally produced works in Italy; Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Macerata in July 1995, Iris in Livorno in November 1998, and Dice Zauberflöte in Jesi in Nov 1999. He returned to Livorno in November 2016 with a new production Die Zauberflöte in which he also designed the sets and costumes, equally well equally co-lighting the product.[31] His last public performance in the United Kingdom was a collaboration with singer songwriter Tim Arnold at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall in a multimedia alive arts installation of Arnold's song "What Honey Would Desire" in June 2018.[32] [33] In the seasons from 2005 to 2012 he plays the role of the fairy Carabosse in The Sleeping Dazzler of the Italian company Balletto del Sud with the Fredy Franzutti'southward choreography. The collaboration with the company and with Franzutti as well continues with the interpretation of the magician Kašej in The Firebird in the seasons from 2007 to 2010, the shows have been repeated in several Italian tours.

Personal life [edit]

Kemp was gay.[34] [35] He had an affair with David Bowie,[36] and their friendship was highly of import in Bowie's artistic development. He left England in 1979 for Spain and then Italy. By 2002 he had homes in Rome and Todi.[10]

Death [edit]

Kemp died in Livorno, Italian republic, on 24 August 2018, anile 80.[37] David Haughton, his closest friend and collaborator for 45 years, said Kemp had remained busy and active right till the end, saying "he all of a sudden said he felt ill, and a minute and a one-half later he was gone."[15]

Bibliography [edit]

  • Lindsay Kemp - di David Haughton e Guido Harari - Editoriale Domus (1982)
  • Sogni di luce. Lindsay Kemp - Giovanna Talà - Bandecchi & Vivaldi Editore (2012)
  • Lindsay Kemp. Wednesday drawings - Peccolo Editore (2014)
  • Lindsay Kemp Claudio Barontini. Disegni east fotografie - Vittorio Sgarbi - CAMeC - Centro Arte Moderna eastward Contemporanea (2018)

Filmography [edit]

  • The Vampire Lovers (1970),[38] every bit Jester
  • Roughshod Messiah (1972),[30] [39] equally Angus Corky
  • The Wicker Human being (1973),[xxx] as Alder MacGregor
  • The Stud (1974), as Topstar[1]
  • Sebastiane (1976),[xxx] equally Dancer
  • Valentino (1977),[40] every bit Mortician
  • Jubilee (1978), equally Cabaret performer[30]
  • A Midsummer Nighttime's Dream for Tv (1985),[forty] every bit Puck
  • Cartoline italiane (Italian Postcards) (1987)[41]
  • The Line, the Cantankerous & the Curve (1993),[23] as Guide
  • Velvet Goldmine (1998), as Pantomime Dame[30]
  • Invitee appearances in Spanish Television show La Mandrágora in 2005 and 2006[sixteen]
  • Battle of Soho (2017),[42] [43] [44] his last film performance
  • David Bowie: Finding Fame (2019) equally himself
  • Lindsay Kemp Claudio Barontini. Drawings and photographs regia di [2] Cristiana Cerrini - Art documentary (2020)

Choreography [edit]

  • Le Railroad train Blue - in coöperation with Ben Holder, for Introdance, Netherlands
  • "The Parades Gone By" - for Ballet Rambert, London, 1975 with music by Carlos Miranda
  • "Roughshod Garden" - for Ballet Rambert, London, 1977 with Christopher Bruce, Music by Carlos Miranda

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c British Moving-picture show Institute entry for Lindsay Kemp Archived 4 Feb 2014 at the Wayback Auto. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
  2. ^ Daniel Kreps (25 August 2018). "Lindsay Kemp, Dancer and David Bowie Collaborator, Dead at 80". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  3. ^ Marker Armstrong (25 August 2018). "British dancer Lindsay Kemp dies". Euronews.com . Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  4. ^ David Rankin (25 August 2018). "Lindsay Kemp, choreographer and Bowie mentor, dies aged fourscore". The Times . Retrieved 26 Baronial 2018.
  5. ^ a b "L'uccello di fuoco". Nonsolocinema.com (in Italian). 2 March 2009. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
  6. ^ Church, Michael: The fabled, fabulous world of Kemp, Independent, 31 August 1996 [i]
  7. ^ Lindsay Kemp obituary, The Guardian, 27 August 2018
  8. ^ Nadine Meisner, "Lindsay Kemp: How the lost boy of dance found his anxiety", The Contained, 28 January 2002. Retrieved 25 August 2018
  9. ^ "Lindsay Kemp, performer and Bowie mentor, dies at 80". BBC NEWS. 24 Baronial 2018.
  10. ^ a b c d due east f Smith, Rupert (thirty Jan 2002). "Lindsay Kemp talks to Rupert Smith nigh his outrageous career". The Guardian . Retrieved 29 April 2012. 'I beginning danced Salome in schoolhouse, naked but for some toilet paper' ... influenced David Bowie, and thus influenced every popular musician with the possible exception of ... respect for this 63-year-old dancer-mime-actor-choreographer-director has reached critical mass
  11. ^ "Lindsay Kemp obituary". The Guardian. 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  12. ^ "British choreographer and mime Lindsay Kemp dies". The Guardian. 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  13. ^ "Lindsay Kemp, choreographer and Bowie mentor, dies at fourscore". UsaPostClick. 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  14. ^ David Whetstone (17 September 2016). "He worked with Bowie and taught Kate Bush – and at present Lindsay Kemp is coming abode". Chronicle Live . Retrieved 2 July 2017.
  15. ^ a b "Lindsay Kemp, performer and Bowie mentor, dies at eighty". BBC News. 24 August 2018.
  16. ^ a b Salas, Roger (25 August 2018). "Muere el coreógrafo y mimo británico Lindsay Kemp". El País (in Castilian). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  17. ^ Reporters, Telegraph (25 August 2018). "Lindsay Kemp – choreographer and teacher to Bowie and Kate Bush-league dies aged 80". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 28 Baronial 2018.
  18. ^ "Lindsay Kemp Company The Big Parade" (PDF). attraversolospettacolo (in Italian). Archived from the original (PDF) on thirteen June 2013. Retrieved 29 April 2012.
  19. ^ Lindsay Kemp's oral history interview in the Rambert Archive https://vimeo.com/236578550
  20. ^ Youth Music Theatre Great britain (viii Oct 2013). "Variété 2013 – Youth Music Theatre UK (YMT)". YouTube. Archived from the original on xix Dec 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  21. ^ Dillard, Brian J. (2008). "Kate Bush: Live at Hammersmith Odeon (1979)". Movies & Boob tube Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 14 June 2008. Retrieved 29 April 2012. studied with David Bowie mentor Lindsay Kemp
  22. ^ Brown, Mick (September 1974). "Lindsay Kemp: The Man Who Taught Bowie His Moves". Crawdaddy! . Retrieved 25 October 2011.
  23. ^ a b c d Nyren, Erin (25 Baronial 2018). "Lindsay Kemp, Choreographer and Bowie Mentor, Dies at 80". Variety . Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  24. ^ The Illustrated Vivian Stanshall, a Fairytale of Grimm Art
  25. ^ Romano, Nick (25 Baronial 2018). "Lindsay Kemp, David Bowie mentor and Ziggy Stardust influencer, dies at 80". Amusement Weekly . Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  26. ^ Buckley, David (24 April 2012). Strange Fascination: David Bowie: The Definitive Story. Random House. pp. 137–44. ISBN978-1-4481-3247-8.
  27. ^ Thomson, Graeme (9 Feb 2015). Under the Ivy: The Life & Music of Kate Bush. Omnibus Printing. pp. 94–95. ISBN978-i-78323-392-2.
  28. ^ Twomey, Seán (25 Baronial 2018). "In Memory of Lindsay Kemp 1938–2018". Kate Bush-league News. Homeground Magazine. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  29. ^ a b c Gallagher, Paul (10 February 2011). "Lindsay Kemp's Last Trip the light fantastic". Retrieved 29 Apr 2012. Sebastiane and Jubilee; and in Ken Russell's The Devils and Savage Messiah, ... original version of The Wicker Man
  30. ^ a b c d due east f g Coveney, Michael (26 August 2018). "Lindsay Kemp obituary". The Guardian . Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  31. ^ Del Nista, Roberto. Report from Livorno. Opera March 2017, Vol 68 No. 3, 338–339.
  32. ^ Bourke, Kevin (3 July 2018). "What Love Would Desire: Lindsay Kemp and Tim Arnold conversation to Northern Soul". Northern Soul . Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  33. ^ Cochrane, Robert (19 June 2018). "A Simplicity Sublime". Culture Catch . Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  34. ^ Thian, Helene M. (xi June 2013). "For David Bowie, Japanese fashion was more than just fashion". The Japan Times . Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  35. ^ Spitz, Marc (2009). Bowie: A Biography. New York Metropolis: Iii Rivers Press. p. 85. ISBN978-0-307-71699-six . Retrieved 8 June 2016 – via Google Books.
  36. ^ Lindsey Kemp Obituary, The Times, 28 August 2018
  37. ^ "Lindsay Kemp obituary". theguardian.com. 26 August 2018. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  38. ^ "Lindsay Kemp is on the phone: Scenes from his life from Genet to Bowie", Dangerous Minds, 3 May 2012. Retrieved 26 Baronial 2018
  39. ^ "Lindsay Kemp: il carisma east la grazia di un maestro". XL Repubblica.it (in Italian). Retrieved 28 Baronial 2018.
  40. ^ a b "Lindsay Kemp obituary". The Times. 28 August 2018. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  41. ^ "Cartoline Italiane". Festival de Cannes . Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  42. ^ Anna Harvey. "Surprisingly Moving Documentary ★★★★".
  43. ^ Clarisse, Loughrey. "BBC Hermode And Mayo's Review". BBC.
  44. ^ Carrier, Dan. "BATTLE OF SOHO Review ☆☆☆☆".

External links [edit]

  • Lindsay Kemp at IMDb
  • Lindsay Kemp at the Internet Broadway Database Edit this at Wikidata
  • Official Lindsay Kemp website
  • Data site run past Yukihiko Yoshida, with a listing of works

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Kemp

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