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Matthew Christopher Bourne
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Matthew Christopher Bourne
Born 13th. January, 1960, London.
British dancer and choreographer.
His parents were June and Jim Bourne and he had a brother Dan. His mother was a secretary and his father worked for Thames Water for 30 years.
When 12 or 13 he and his friend Simon Carter waited to get the autographs of actors outside the Apollo, Lyric, Palace, or Queens theatres.
He attended a Methodist-run youth club which had a choir and he put on his versions of musicals.
He went to school at the Sir George Monoux mixed comprehensive (later a sixth-form college) in Walthamstow in north-east London. He left with two grade C A levels.
He didn't admit to himself that he was gay until he was 18. He then rang the telephone number for Gay Switchboard which was printed on the sleeve of Tom Robinson's single Glad To Be Gay and he was directed to a gay youthclub in Holloway.
He first took a job in the contracts department at the BBC. He next had a job with the Keith Prowse ticket agency. This was followed by a
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