CNN: Why were you know as Teddy?
Kumakawa: Teddy - it's because I arrived in London when I was 15. When I was getting to know all my friends in the school. They tried to pronounce my name and they probably found it very hard to pronounce my name. So my friend Luke Hayden -- my very best friend at the ballet school -- said to me your name is Kumakawa. What does that mean in Japanese? Kuma means bear, kawa means river. So it's bear river. Then he asked what's Tetsuya mean? There's no sort of meaning to it, but it starts with T. So he said, why don't we call you teddy bear? So I became Teddy. I rather like it.
今から12年前、「バレエは俺にとって(強く見せるための)鎧だから」と語っていた26歳のクマテツも今年で38歳・・・アラフォーとなった。
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