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Saburo Teshigawara and Junaid Jemal Sendi
It began with Junaid watching Saburo Teshigawara managing lights and arranging the stage. It ended with him dancing a major role in the Tokyo premiere of Kazahana.
In February 2004, Teshigawara auditioned the four dance finalists for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, looking for the one most likely to find new paths to travel, the one with the most finely honed coordination, the one least set in his ways – the one, in short, in whom he could see the most “energy for the future”. That was Junaid, whose build – wiry and elastic, but still very slight – belies the hugeness of his dreams.