1. Lindsay Keith Kemp was a British dancer, actor, teacher, mime artist, and choreographer.
11 Facts About Lindsay Kemp
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Lindsay Kemp was probably best 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'.
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Lindsay Kemp was a mentor to David Bowie and Kate Bush.
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Lindsay Kemp played the Player Queen in the BBC's Shakespeare Quatercentenary production Hamlet at Elsinore in 1963, which starred Christopher Plummer.
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Lindsay Kemp formed his own dance company in the early sixties and first attracted attention with an appearance at the Edinburgh Festival in 1968 with Flowers based on Jean Genet's Notre Dame des Fleurs.
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Lindsay Kemp staged and performed in Bowie's Ziggy Stardust concerts at London's Rainbow Theatre in August 1972, with Jack Birkett, and appears in the promotional video for Bowie's single "John, I'm Only Dancing", directed by Mick Rock.
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Lindsay Kemp returned to Livorno in November 2016 with a new production Die Zauberflote in which he designed the sets and costumes, as well as co-lighting the production.
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Lindsay Kemp's last public performance in the United Kingdom was a collaboration with singer songwriter Tim Arnold at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall in a multimedia live arts installation of Arnold's song "What Love Would Want" in June 2018.
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Lindsay Kemp was rumoured to have had an affair with David Bowie, and their friendship was highly important in Bowie's artistic development.
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Lindsay Kemp left England in 1979 for Spain and then Italy.
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Lindsay Kemp died in Livorno, Italy, on 24 August 2018, aged 80.