KENTARO!!
Photo: Miki Hattori
KENTARO!!
Dancer/choreographer, leader of the company TOKYO ELECTROCK STAIRS
While working from technique based primarily in hip hop dance, KENTARO!! creates unique and innovative works that transcend the patterns of conventional styles of dance. In recent years, his works are characterized by dance with a narrative aspect interwoven with meaning and relevance and utilizing self-composed music and sound in fuzzy synchronization with the dance movement. In 2008, he won the Young Choreographer’s Prize sponsored by the French Embassy in Japan at the “Yokohama Solo & Duo Competition” and the Nextage special prize and Audience prize of the Toyota Choreography Awards 2008.
In 2010, he won the Japan Dance Forum Award. Often invited for overseas performances, KENTARO!! made a solo tour of three cities in India in the spring of 2012, performed a solo long run of 20 stages in Tokyo and Kyoto in the autumn as part of his ambitious artistic and dance activities.