Tetsuya Kumakawa
: wt kwie 05, 2011 2:15 pm
Kumakawa, Tetsuya (b Hokkaido, 5 Mar. 1972). Japanese-British dancer. He studied locally, then at the Royal Ballet School, graduating into the company in 1989 when he was also promoted soloist, becoming principal (1993-1998). A charismatic demi-caractère dancer capable of outstanding aerial virtuosity and extravagant pirouettes, he dances a wide repertory of classical and modern roles. He has been one of the few dancers permitted to dance the Baryshnikov role in Tharp's Push Comes to Shove and he has created roles in MacMillan's Prince of the Pagodas (1989) and Tharp's Mr Worldly Wise (1995), among others. In 1998 he left the Royal to lead his own company, K Ballet.
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/12/03/Kumakawa.profile/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3ndXax3baE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uClWoItv_6g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGVljGywn_E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lq-SBibDns&feature=player_embedded#at=80
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/12/03/Kumakawa.profile/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3ndXax3baE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uClWoItv_6g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGVljGywn_E&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lq-SBibDns&feature=player_embedded#at=80