#Lindsay Kemp

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Miranda Richardson... back in the day when Shax was tempting Kate Bush... lol

Kate made a film back in 1993, kind of based on the Powell and Pressburger film The Red Shoes.... to go with her album called The Red Shoes.

Miranda (/Shax) with The Line.

Poster for P&P film...above

Miranda in The Line , the cross and the Curve... below.

As Shax.....still wearing the black and red.

Here is the film....

It's not Kates greatest video in my opinion, but nice to have as my friend and Mentor Lindsay Kemp is in it too.... he taught both Kate and David Bowie.

The P&P film was a big deal to dancers and Lindsay was very influenced by it.

The Red Shoes influence in Good Omens in Nina's cafe....

Told you my head was full of lots of weird information I needed to download as it seems Good Omens is overtaking my brains hard drive....lol

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The Wicker Man - 1973 - Dir. Robin Hardy

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Savage Messiah (1972)

Maestro of UK art cinema Ken Russell finds a way to make sculpture cinematic.

Director: Ken Russell

Cinematographer: Dick Bush

Costume Designer: Shirley Russell

Production Designer: Derek Jarman

Starring: Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony, Helen Mirren, Lindsay Kemp, Michael Gough, and Peter Vaughan.

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Lindsay Kemp - Ohne Titel. 1981

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Michael Matou as the most glam Oberon that has ever lived in a 1984 adaptation of A Midsummer's Night Dream. The amazing Lindsay Kemp was Puck (also the stage producer of the adaptation)

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David Bowie and Lindsay Kemp with other mime artists performing Pierrot in Turquoise. This would be around the late 60s, early 70s I believe.

Lindsay Kemp also taught Kate Bush mime.

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flowers, lindsay kemp 1974

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LINDSAY KEMP - pictures

リンゼイ・ケンプ画集

Tokyo FM Publishing (1994)

book designing by akira uji

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British choreographer, actor, dancer, mime and director Lindsay Kemp was born on 3 May 1938.

He was David Bowie's master

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Neil Gaiman talks Salomé.....!

Ah...the Kiss!.... not how you wanted it.

Well worth a listen.

Loved this podcast between @neil-gaiman and Lucy Eaton.... he talks about Oscar Wilde's Salomé.... and the kiss in GO.

SALOMÉ: [Holding the severed head of Iokanaan.]

"Ah! thou wouldst not suffer me to kiss thy mouth, Iokanaan. Well! I will kiss it now. I will bite it with my teeth as one bites a ripe fruit. Yes, I will kiss thy mouth, Iokanaan. I said it; did I not say it? I said it. Ah! I will kiss it now. But wherefore dost thou not look at me, Iokanaan? Thine eyes that were so terrible, so full of rage and scorn, are shut now. Wherefore are they shut? Open thine eyes! Lift up thine eyelids, Iokanaan! Wherefore dost thou not look at me? Art thou afraid of me, Iokanaan, that thou wilt not look at me? And thy tongue, that was like a red snake darting poison, it moves no more, it speaks no words, Iokanaan, that scarlet viper that spat its venom upon me. It is strange, is it not? How is it that the red viper stirs no longer? Thou wouldst have none of me, Iokanaan. Thou rejectedest me. Thou didst speak evil words against me. Thou didst bear thyself toward me as to a harlot, as to a woman that is a wanton, to me, Salome, daughter of Herodias, Princess of Judaea! Well, I still live, but thou art dead, and thy head belongs to me. I can do with it what I will. I can throw it to the dogs and to the birds of the air. That which the dogs leave, the birds of the air shall devour. Ah, Iokanaan, Iokanaan, thou wert the man that I loved alone among men! All other men were hateful to me. But thou wert beautiful! Thy body was a column of ivory set upon feet of silver. It was a garden full of doves and lilies of silver. It was a tower of silver decked with shields of ivory. There was nothing in the world so white as thy body. There was nothing in the world so black as thy hair. In the whole world there was nothing so red as thy mouth. Thy voice was a censer that scattered strange perfumes, and when I looked on thee I heard strange music. Ah! wherefore didst thou not look at me, Iokanaan? With the cloak of thine hands, and with the cloak of thy blasphemies thou didst hide thy face. Thou didst put upon thine eyes the covering of him who would see God. Well, thou hast seen thy God, Iokanaan, but me, me, thou didst never see me. If thou hadst seen me thou hadst loved me. I saw thee, and I loved thee. Oh, how I loved thee! I love thee yet, Iokanaan. I love only thee. I am athirst for thy beauty; I am hungry for thy body; and neither wine nor apples can appease my desire. What shall I do now, Iokanaan? Neither the floods nor the great waters can quench my passion. I was a princess, and thou didst scorn me. I was a virgin, and thou didst take my virginity from me. I was chaste, and thou didst fill my veins with fire. Ah! ah! wherefore didst thou not look at me? [She kisses the head.] Ah! I have kissed thy mouth, Iokanaan, I have kissed thy mouth. There was a bitter taste on thy lips. Was it the taste of blood? Nay; but perchance it was the taste of love. They say that love hath a bitter taste. But what matter? what matter? I have kissed thy mouth."

Oscar Wilde.

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I came to Salomé via Aubrey Beardsley's artwork he produced for Oscar Wilde's Salomé... when I was just a teenager. At Artschool, I discovered that he was basically a local artist being born in Brighton.... and the influence of his black and white work as always been in the essence of my own.

There is beautiful silent movie based on Beardsley's illustrations, which I adore.

Lindsay Kemp was influenced by Oscar's Salomé and in the 1970s, he staged his own version... sadly, there is not a full version as it's from a time before video cameras were the normal. Sadly I never got to see this show live as it was before my time in the Kemp Co.These clips were for a German documentary.

This is the original documentary shown in France and dubbed into French...for those interested in The Lindsay Kemp Company.

Lindsay Kemp as Salome and Vladek Sheybal as Herod. Below

Jack Birkett aka The Incredible Orlando as Herodias. Below

Lindsay Kemp as Salomé. Below

Neil Caplan as Herod. Below

David Haughton as Iokanaan, John the Baptist. Below

Someone just reblogged and reminded me of the Ken Russell film of Salomé 's Last Dance. Thank you, @queen-mabs-revenge , I worked on some of the costumes when I worked at Trends Costumiers(London) Ltd.

We also worked on The Russell production of The Lair of the White Worm, and I did a pop video for he directed too with his costume director, Michael Jeffery.

Below Salomé 's Last Dance.

Love this quote from John's blog above.... "Lindsay Kemp’s queer-as-fuck adaptation was probably closest in contemporary terms to the scandalous power of the original but we don’t have a film of that, unfortunately."

Trailer above and full film if you follow link below.

In SLD... their Iokanaan is very much in the style of the Kemp version of Iokanaan -David Haughton.

The Kiss... was not how Salomé wanted it.

Lindsay Kemp and David Haughton below.

Just like Good Omens wasn't the Kiss everyone wanted...... the idea from Salomé maybe?

It seems that my influences all intermingle and remind me of things.

And then, of course, keeping the Oscar Wilde connection to GO.... we have Michael Sheen as Robbie Ross in the film Wilde ....more joining the dots....but you can find that yourselves...lol

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The Wicker Man (1973, Robin Hardy)

10/9/22

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The Wicker Man - 1973 - Dir. Robin Hardy

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Lindsay Kemp joue ‘The End’ dans ‘’Flowers, une pantomine pour Jean Genet’‘.