Whirling, spinning, reaching, grasping - Japanese wheelchair dancer Kenta Kambara has his sights set on the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics
TOKYO - Whirling, spinning, reaching, grasping - Japanese wheelchair dancer Kenta Kambara’s emotive performances are wordless testimony to artistic passion and possibility.
“These days, people use the keyword ‘diversity’ but not many people have experienced it themselves,” he said. “I want people to understand by seeing me dance that it’s precisely because my body is different that it is interesting. Then that will become a trigger to accept other people’s differences.”Kambara was in third grade at elementary school in Kobe, western Japan, when his mother told him he would never walk.
The self-taught Kambara’s repertoire includes handstands on his wheelchair, serpentine moves of his lean, muscular arms and slender fingers, and dizzying spins on a collapsed wheelchair, itself an integral part of his performances. “I thought it was amazing that someone born with a disability could do such an intense, cool dance,” said eight-year-old elementary school student Konatsu Matsuo.
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