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Lindsay Kemp (Lindsay Keith Kemp) was born on 3 May, 1938 in Birkenhead, England, is a British dancer, actor, and mime. Discover Lindsay Kemp's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

Popular As Lindsay Keith Kemp
Occupation miscellaneous,actor,art_department
Age 80 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 3 May 1938
Birthday 3 May
Birthplace Birkenhead, England
Date of death 24 August, 2018
Died Place Livorno, Italy
Nationality United Kingdom

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1938

Lindsay Keith Kemp (3 May 1938 – 24 August 2018) was a British dancer, actor, teacher, mime artist, and choreographer.

1940

His father, a seaman, was lost at sea in 1940.

According to Kemp, he danced from early childhood: "I'd dance on the kitchen table to entertain the neighbours. I mean, it was a novelty in South Shields to see a little boy in full make-up dancing on pointe. Finally it got a bit too much for my mother, and she decided to send me to boarding school at the age of eight, hoping that it would knock some sense into me."

Kemp's mother moved away from South Shields, and Kemp attended Bearwood College, near Wokingham, a school for the sons of merchant seamen.

He and his mother later moved to Bradford, Yorkshire, where Kemp attended Bradford Art College before studying dance with Hilde Holger and mime with Marcel Marceau.

1950

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 desire to dance.

1963

Kemp played the Player Queen in the BBC's Shakespeare Quatercentenary production Hamlet at Elsinore (recorded at Elsinore castle) in 1963, which starred Christopher Plummer.

1968

He 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 (Our Lady of the Flowers).

Its extraordinary dream-like opening scene of prisoners masturbating in their cells, while the silhouette of a beautiful male angel walked slowly across the stage, his wings reaching almost to the top of the proscenium, established the tone.

1970

During the early 1970s, Kemp was a popular and inspirational teacher of dance and mime.

David Bowie, Kate Bush and Vivian Stanshall were students of Kemp.

1972

He 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.

Bush later wrote the song "Moving", which appeared on her debut album The Kick Inside, as a tribute to Kemp.

Bush also contributed vocals to Zaine Griff's song "Flowers", which is also a tribute to Kemp.

1974

He 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'.

Owing to its homosexual themes and perceived decadence, reviews were sometimes hostile, but it was widely considered a theatrical and sensory sensation, and it toured globally for many years.

He was also a mentor to David Bowie and Kate Bush.

Kemp was born in Birkenhead, but grew up in South Shields, near Newcastle upon Tyne.

1979

He left England in 1979 for Spain and then Italy.

1983

Kemp's stage performances include Pierrot In Turquoise, Salome, Mr Punch's Pantomime, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Duende, Nijinsky, Alice, Cenerentola (Cinderella), 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 Cruel Garden (1977), most of these works in collaboration with composer Carlos Miranda.

1994

Kemp's film roles include a supporting role in the Kate Bush short film The Line, the Cross & the Curve (1994), a dancer and cabaret performer in Derek Jarman's Sebastiane (1976) and Jubilee (1977) respectively, a pantomime dame in Todd Haynes' Velvet Goldmine (1998) and the pub landlord Alder MacGregor in Anthony Shaffer's The Wicker Man (1973).

1995

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 Die Zauberflöte in Jesi in November 1999.

2002

By 2002 he had homes in Rome and Todi.

2005

In the seasons from 2005 to 2012 he plays the role of the fairy Carabosse in The Sleeping Beauty of the Italian company Balletto del Sud with the Fredy Franzutti's choreography.

2007

The collaboration with the company and with Franzutti also 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.

Kemp was gay.

He was also rumoured to have had an affair with David Bowie, and their friendship was highly important in Bowie's artistic development.

2013

Variété was later produced by Youth Music Theatre UK at the Riverside Studios in 2013 directed by Kinny Gardner.

2016

He returned to Livorno in November 2016 with a new production Die Zauberflöte in which he also designed the sets and costumes, as well as co-lighting the production.

2018

His 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.

Kemp died in Livorno, Italy, on 24 August 2018, aged 80.

David Haughton, his closest friend and collaborator for 45 years, said Kemp had remained busy and active right until the end, saying "he suddenly said he felt ill, and a minute and a half later he was gone."