RIP Lindsay Kemp

Lindsay Kemp performing in 2002.
Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian (theguardian.com)

Lindsay Kemp, Dancer Who Taught David Bowie, Is Dead at 80

By Alex Marshall

• Lindsay Kemp, a boundary-pushing British dancer, choreographer and mime who taught David Bowie and Kate Bush how to move, died on Friday at his home in Livorno, Italy. He was 80.
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• Ms. Bush, in a statement posted on her website, said: “To call him a mime artist is like calling Mozart a pianist. He was very brave, very funny and, above all, astonishingly inspirational.”
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• Mr. Kemp may have been an inspiration to two of the most important musicians of the 1970s, as well as to countless dancers, but his work — often filled with sex and blood, and with clear nods to its inspirations — was received less favorably by some critics. (Keep reading the NYTimes article here.)

Link to Lindsay Kemp's Videos of Performances
(including Jean Genet--a "Flowers")

Lindsay Kemp Obituary & A Life in Pictures (The Guardian)

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