• Lindsay Kemp obituary

    Mime artist, dancer and choreographer who was a mentor to David Bowie and Kate BushThe mime artist, dancer and choreographer Lindsay Kemp, who has died aged 80, combined the subversive European strain of Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet and Federico García Lorca with the British punk and glam-rock strut of the mid-1970s. An acknowledged mentor to both David Bowie and Kate Bush – he staged Bowie’s famous Ziggy Stardust concerts at the Rainbow, Finsbury Park, in north London, in 1972 &n
  • Void; Get Rreel; Swan Lake – review

    Summerhall, Edinburgh; Coliseum, London
    Close encounters with JG Ballard and an Irish girlband. Plus, a Russian Swan Lake that’s not always perfect but is full of charmPunchy, intimate dance continues to rule on the Edinburgh festival fringe, as two pieces at Summerhall confirmed. Mele Broomes is a 29-year-old choreographer and performer who runs Glasgow-based Various Dance Artists (V/DA). Her latest solo piece is Void, a dizzying and fractured work based on JG Ballard’s techno-futur

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