Kinny Gardner
Kinny studied Classical Ballet graduating R.A.D. Advanced in 1976. Further training in mime and dance with Annie Stainer, Lindsay Kemp and at the Martha Graham School in New York, with Martha Graham, Pearl Laing and Helen McGeeghie. Voice teachers include Michael Aspinall, Elisabeth Brice, Arthur Oldham and Dr. Werner Hecht of the Berliner Ensemble. He has studied Kabuki with Gojo Masanosuke, Butoh with Katsu Ohno, and Commedia dell’ Arte with Carlo Mazzone Clementi.
He has featured in GODSPELL, THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW and THE MOUSETRAP in London’s West End, and in rep. and tours of THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, CHICAGO, MARAT/SADE, ADRIAN MOLE, THE THREEPENNY OPERA, ASSASSINS, CAFÉ DEBRIS and CABARET. Kinny is a principal guest artist with THE LINDSAY KEMP COMPANY.
Kinny’s directing and creating work includes over 27 productions for Krazy Kat, including workshops, and now features integrated sign-language as a matter of course.
Extensively using puppets, figures, dolls and objects, Kinny has directed and choreographed work for ‘Lo Scarlo’ Italy, ‘Kinderteater Basta’ Holland, ‘Bridges Dance’ England, ‘The Scottish Mime Theatre’, ‘Khoros Dance Theatre’, ‘Dancescapers’ ‘Theatre Workshop Edinburgh’, and ‘Guizer Theatre Company’, all in Scotland, and for ‘The Paradise Club’ Zenith T.V. He created the Spider Shadow Ballet for Lindsay Kemp’s ‘Cinderella’, and choreographed T.S. Eliot’s ‘Sweeny Agonistes’ at the Traverse, Edinburgh.
Email: krazykattheatre@ntlworld.com
Website :
www.kinnygardner.com