FW: Lindsay Kemp

[Mike Wade <mwade@oxfam.org.uk>]

Re Richard's note about Lindasy Kemp and the stage play "Flowers":

Yup - I'd forgoton about "Flowers". (Based on - I think - "Our Lady of the 
Flowers" by Jean Genet) . I remember an interview with Kate in which she 
talked about how she got interested in music and dance/mime. Her comment was 
something like -

" I went to see this play, "Flowers" and didn't really know what to expect. 
I thought it would be people dancing around, dressed as flowers or 
something. Anyway, when the curtain opened there was this funny little guy, 
just sitting wanking on the edge of the stage. And I thought it was so 
beautiful, he was there giving himself physically to the music" .  Kate 
followed with some ambiguous comment that she wanted to be able to 
incorporate phsyical movement and music in the same way. or, rather, to the 
same extent.

Linsay Kemp is still around - I saw him performing in Oxford a couple of 
months ago, and he's as brilliant as ever.
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