Tetsuya Kumakawa

Tetsuya "Teddy" Kumakawa (熊川 哲也, Kumakawa Tetsuya, born 5 March 1972) is a Japanese ballet dancer and a former principal dancer with the Royal Ballet.

Kumakawa won the gold medal and the then newly established Prince Takamado Prize[1] at the 1989 Prix de Lausanne and returned as a jury member in 2013.

[2] With The Royal Ballet, Kumakawa has danced roles such as 'Lead Mandolin Player' in Romeo and Juliet, the Act 1 pas de trois in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, The bronze Idol in La Bayadère, and 'The Fool' in the premiere of Kenneth Macmillan's The Prince of the Pagodas.

[1] In 1998, Kumakawa and five other leading male dancers from the Royal Ballet, Stuart Cassidy, Gary Avis, Matthew Dibble, Michael Nunn, and William Trevitt, left to form K-ballet.

[2] In 2006, Kumakawa won the "fifth Asahi Scenic Art Prize" for his artistic and original interpretation and presentation of the classical pieces Don Quixote and The Nutcracker.