Born in 1980, Kentaro!! is one of the most promising young contemporary dancers in Japan. Deeply impressed by street dance culture as a child, he then discovered contemporary dance and its improvisational aspects. He started to work on pieces combining street dance techniques and dramatic elements of contemporary dance. His performances are lyrical, reflecting the experiences of young people living in modern Japanese society.
Kentaro!! in After Rain it Will be Sunny at the Chinmaya Mission, New Delhi, on the 16th of March, performed hope post the tragedy of the earthquake in Japan. His swift and lucid movements set an optimistic tone for the future that will bring about brightness and joy even though the mood be gray and melancholic now.
He adopts a fused style of hip-hop and contemporary that combine everyday movement and emotions. Kentaro's expression has a very personal and sensitive tone, which resonates among the audience with his own story lines and self-composed music. His music is all self-composed and he breaks the performance into two to sing a song of a broken heart. In his free-flowing and unstylized performance Kentaro!! articulates anger, joy and fatigue with performing a repetitive motion.
The performance itself keep changing hue and texture and Kentaro!! added an interactive moment with the audience when he spoke to the audience directly like a singer in a live performance would. He touches the audience with his simplicity and directness and practices a complete absence of pretense in his performance and his attitude.
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