The first image after the opening titles in Jarman’s Sebastiane is a close up of Lindsay Kemp’s beglittered and thickly made up face as he performs a dance, I believe, in honor of Priapus. This was my introduction to his work. It looks like no representation of Roman Dancing that I had previously seen and was probably much closer to the truth of it. Lindsay Kemp died on Friday (24 August) in Livorno, in Tuscany; he was eighty years old. In the pictures above he looks in good shape but strangely older than his thirty seven years at the time. RIP
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