Lindsay Kemp

Lindsay Kemp (born Cheshire, England, 3 May 1938) is an English dancer, actor,teacher, mime artist and choreographer.

Kemp's 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 seaman. 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. He played the Player Queen in the BBC's Shakespeare Quatercentenary production of Hamlet filmed at Elsinore castle in 1963, which starred Christopher Plummer.

Kemp formed his own dance company in the early sixties and first attracted attention with an appearance at the Edinburgh Festival in 1968.

His stage performances include Pierrot In Turquoise, Flowers, Salome,Mr Punch's Pantomime,A Midsummer Night’s Dream,Duende,Nijinsky,Alice,Cenerentola (Cinderella), ''Nijinsky il matto (1983) (translation: Nijinsky the fool)Facade, The Big Parade,Alice,Onnagata, Cinderella, Varieté, Dream Dances, and, for Ballet Rambert, Parades Gone By (1975) and Cruel Garden (1977), most of these works in collaboration with composer Carlos Miranda.

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