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Lindsay Kemp

September 2021

  • Naomi Sorkin in Ida Rubinstein - The Final Act - The Playground Theatre - Photos by Gareth McLeod (01)

    Ida Rubinstein: The Final Act review – a passionate dancer’s drama

    The extraordinary life story of the Ballets Russes star is retold with intensity, imagination and balletic flourishes

July 2020

  • Christopher Bruce

    Take this waltz: Christopher Bruce on a life in dance and his Leonard Cohen dream

    The Rooster choreographer recalls the genius and cruelty of Marie Rambert and the demands on young dance talent today

January 2019

  • Lindsay Kemp performing in Salome’s Last Dance in London in 2002.

    Young performers lack passion: Lindsay Kemp’s final word

    In an interview before his death last year, choreographer who was David Bowie’s mentor criticises dancers and actors for ‘lack of interest’ in their cultural heritage

December 2018

  • Lindsay Kemp and Daniela Maccari performing on stage.

    Lindsay Kemp tribute unveiled as dancer adopts his roles

    Exclusive: New work created in honour of the late dancer and performed by Vidya Patel and Daniela Maccari, who has taken on his signature stage roles

August 2018

  • Lindsay Kemp performing in Kemp Dreams Kabuki Courtesans in Florence, Italy, in 2017.

    Lindsay Kemp obituary

  • Lindsay Kemp, Daniela Maccari, David Haughton, Ivan Ristallo, James Vanzo<br>EW6JTB Lindsay Kemp, Daniela Maccari, David Haughton, Ivan Ristallo, James Vanzo

    Lindsay Kemp: 'His life on stage was his most intense reality'

  • Lindsay Kemp as Salome in 1978

    Lindsay Kemp – a life in pictures

  • Lindsay Kemp performing in 2002.

    British choreographer and mime Lindsay Kemp dies

April 2016

  • Lindsay Kemp

    Lindsay Kemp: ‘I was destined for stardom… I’m still waiting for it’

    He reimagined live rock performance and taught David Bowie and Kate Bush the art of movement. Ahead of his first event in Britain for 15 years, Lindsay Kemp talks about his incredible life

February 2016

  • David Bowie … come on, what a Puss in Boots he would have been!

    Music blog
    Just say no: 10 things David Bowie turned down

    Dave Grohl is only the latest to have revealed his rejection by David Bowie, despite working together on two occasions previously. Here are 10 of Bowie’s very best snubs …

January 2016

  • David Bowie in Vasarely's workshop<br>06 Jun 1977, Anet, France --- British singer, songwriter and actor David Bowie in the workshop of Hungarian French artist Victor Vasarely. --- Image by © Christian Simonpietri/Sygma/Corbis

    David Bowie: the man who read the world

  • Photographer Mick Rock at an exhibition of his David Bowie photographs on 9 September 2015 in Los Angeles.

    Photographer Mick Rock: David Bowie 'never really copied anybody'

  • David Bowie in 1973

    Lindsay Kemp: I tried to get David Bowie to do Puss in Boots

  • John Harris

    In mourning Bowie we mourn the end of an era when art could truly subvert

    John Harris

May 2015

  • 140x84 trailpic for Lindsay Kemp talks about Bowie, Bush and Ballet Rambert

    Lindsay Kemp on David Bowie, Kate Bush and getting kicked out of Ballet Rambert – video

  • Lindsay Kemp by Nicola jennings

    Nicola Jennings's caricatures
    Lindsay Kemp

December 2014

  • David Bowie

    10 of the best
    David Bowie: 10 of the best

    The great rock star has died. Here’s his career distilled to nine of his own performances, and one song he gifted to another band

June 2014

  • Starman … David Bowie onstage in 1987.

    David Bowie: stage oddity

    As the V&A's groundbreaking Bowie exhibition transfers to Berlin – site of his creative transformation in the 70s – the singer's theatrical side has been pushed centre-stage, writes Mark Espiner

May 2010

  • Letter: Jack Birkett obituary

  • Jack Birkett

    Jack Birkett obituary

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