Lindsay Kemp

Lindsay Kemp

Nacimiento : 1938-05-03, South Shields, England, UK

Muerte : 2018-08-24

Historia

Lindsay Kemp was an English dancer, actor, teacher, mime artist, and choreographer. He collaborated with David Bowie as he invented theatrical personas such as Ziggy Stardust and taught Kate Bush how to dance. He starred in The Wicker Man and collaborated on films with auteurs like Ken Russell and Derek Jarman.

Perfil

Lindsay Kemp

Películas

David Bowie: London Boy
A documentary about David Bowie.
Lindsay Dances – Il teatro e la vita secondo Lindsay Kemp
David Bowie. Los primeros años
Self
50 años después del lanzamiento de Space Oddity, la película de 90 minutos explora el Bowie antes de Ziggy Stardust, después del período de 1966 cuando cambió su nombre de David Jones a Bowie. Incluye imágenes de los Archivos de la BBC, incluyendo imágenes de una audición de la BBC en 1965 de David Bowie y el Lower Third, que incluyó una actuación de Chim-Chim-Cheree y Baby That A A Promise.
Battle of Soho
In November 2014 the Iconic club Madame Jojos closed its doors. This event being interpreted by many as the death knell of Soho.The gentrification of Soho affects the LGBT community and its Drag Queen sub-culture, but the cabaret atmosphere of the entire neighborhood in enormous ways. This active pursuit to destroy a bubbling and vibrant part of the city's heart is viewed by many as an atrocity akin to turning the lights off on Broadway. Over 3rd of London's music venues have been closed in recent years and no one noticed. An active movement to bring a halt to this disaster has begun to unfold with one organization after another emerging to fight for Soho. Organizations made up of citizens and celebrities have sprung up to combat this onslaught. Will they win this battle and save Soho?
The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill
Himself
This documentary explores Kate Bush's career and music, from January 1978's Wuthering Heights to her 2011 album 50 Words for Snow, through the testimony of some of her key collaborators and those she has inspired.
Velvet Goldmine
Pantomime Dame
En el Londres de los años setenta, Brian Slade es un joven que rompe con el movimiento hippy y se convierte en el principal exponente de lo que se dio en conocer como el glam rock.
The Line, the Cross & the Curve
Guide
A singer struggles to dance well in rehearsal with her band. A power outage leaves her alone in the studio, reviewing her life, when a mysterious woman appears through the mirror and gives her a pair of Red Shoes. The cursed shoes dance beautifully, but endlessly. The singer is drawn irresistibly into the fey world beyond the mirror, where she must redeem three magic symbols from the mysterious woman in order to obtain release from the cursed shoes.
Italian Postcards
Vinicio Secchi
Lidia (Christiana Borghi) passes herself off as a stage actress to interview international star Silvana (Genevieve Page) for her writer boyfriend (David Brandon). Her first obstacle is the boarding house owner and former stage star Pola Mareschi, who is very protective of her tenant's privacy. Lidia is robbed by a motorcycle gang in the middle of the living room and is caught up in a performance put on by the residents. Lidia soon finds herself wanting to stay with the quirky actors as she becomes a performer in their offbeat antics.
Flowers
Divine
Filmed performance of Lindsay Kemp's free adaptation of Jean Genet's Our Lady of the Flowers.
Jubilee
Cabaret Performer
Coincidiendo con el jubileo de la Reina Isabel II, Derek Jarman rueda esta película en la que la Reina Isabel I invoca con ayuda del ocultista John Dee a un espíritu guía llamado Ariel, que les transportará en el tiempo a la Inglaterra de los 70. En esta Inglaterra figurada tomada por el caos, la Reina Isabel II ha sido asesinada, y las pandillas, como la de Amyl Nitrate, Bod, Chaos, Crabs, y Mad, hacen de las suyas por doquier. Jubilee es quizás la película más emblemática del punk, apareciendo en ella iconos de este movimiento como Adam Ant, las Slits o Wayne County.
Valentino
Mortician
Biografía de Valentino, famoso actor de origen italiano que triunfó en Hollywood en la época del cine mudo y que llegó a ser considerado la encarnación del latin lover. Murió a la edad de 31 años. Estructurada en una serie de flashbacks desde su funeral hasta sus primeros años en América.
Sebastiane
Choreographer
Durante el reinado del emperador romano Diocleciano los cristianos gozaban de una cierta tranquilidad, hasta que unos disturbios hacen que la actitud del emperardor con respecto a ellos cambie.
Sebastiane
Dancer
Durante el reinado del emperador romano Diocleciano los cristianos gozaban de una cierta tranquilidad, hasta que unos disturbios hacen que la actitud del emperardor con respecto a ellos cambie.
El hombre de mimbre
Alder MacGreagor
Una carta que hace sospechar que una joven desaparecida ha sido asesinada lleva al sargento Howie de Scotland Yard hasta Summerisle, una isla en la costa de Inglaterra. Allí el inspector se entera de que hay una especie de culto pagano, y conoce a Lord Summerisle, el líder religioso de la isla.
El mesías salvaje
Angus Corky
"El mesías salvaje" narra la historia de la relación platónica entre el joven escultor francés Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (Scott Antony) y una mujer mayor, Sophie Brzeska (Dorothy Tutin), en la Europa previa a la Primera Guerra Mundial. Las maneras desenfrenadas del joven son contrarrestadas por el carácter equilibrado de la mujer.
The Looking Glass Murders
Writer
Made for Scottish TV and airing in 1970, "The Looking Glass Murders" is a filmed version of the mime improv play "Pierrot in Turquoise", which Lindsay Kemp and David Bowie first staged in 1967. Pierrot is a freaky mime who ventures into a mirror where he falls in love and rolls around with the equally grotesque Columbine. But when Columbine spurs him for Harlequin, Pierrot's jealousy takes over and drives him to murder. Cloud, perched on a ladder, watches over the proceedings and narrates in song.
The Looking Glass Murders
Pierrot
Made for Scottish TV and airing in 1970, "The Looking Glass Murders" is a filmed version of the mime improv play "Pierrot in Turquoise", which Lindsay Kemp and David Bowie first staged in 1967. Pierrot is a freaky mime who ventures into a mirror where he falls in love and rolls around with the equally grotesque Columbine. But when Columbine spurs him for Harlequin, Pierrot's jealousy takes over and drives him to murder. Cloud, perched on a ladder, watches over the proceedings and narrates in song.
Hamlet at Elsinore
Player Queen
"Hamlet en Elsinor" fue una importante contribución de la BBC a las celebraciones del cuarto centenario del nacimiento de Shakespeare. Hasta entonces, las adaptaciones televisivas de Shakespeare eran exclusivamente reconstrucciones de estudio o transmisiones de producciones teatrales en vivo. Ésta fue la primera vez que una obra de larga duración fue grabada en un escenario natural: en el castillo de Kronborg, situado en en Elsinore, en Dinamarca.
I Filmed Your Death
Jonathan Edwards, CVC Announcer
A small town is rocked when a local man goes on a rampage in a movie theater, killing dozens as well as himself. Now, a year later, young filmmaker Pierce Lyndale adds salt to the wound when he makes the tragic decision to base a film off of this event and show it on the town's public access channel. As he attempts to throw a premiere party for himself, his friends ditch him, his community shuns him, and he finds out that not everyone wants to be in a movie.