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What about Nijinsky? Surely the young dancer must be intimidated by the ghost of his perfection? No chance."It doesn't frighten me at all. Is Teddy afraid of unfavourable comparisons? "It's difficult to say The steps are the same The story's the same The only difference is the way we think as Petrushka We're very different He's much bigger. Twice bigger." He mimes Irek's beefy bulk against his own skinny ribs All right, never mind Mukhamedov. Although the burly Russian is also a slightly unlikely choice for the sad little clown, he does at least possess a reputation as a great actor. Nijinsky's clown embodied not only generations of Russian sentiment but also the pathos of the actor caught painfully between illusion and substance Kumakawa will share the role with Irek Mukhamedov. They may have something I don't have, but at least I have something."His new role is nothing like the impish crowd-pleasing clowns he has danced so far.

Created by Fokine for Nijinsky in 1911, Petrushka is a very sad, rather sinister tale of three puppets with lives and loves of their own. It wasn't that hard to learn the steps." But are steps enough? One of the old guard, who habitually refers to the young Japanese as Mr Kamikaze, was struck by the interpretation "I hadn't seen the steps better danced since Rudolf He danced some of the steps better than Rudolf. But it was still ludicrous." But Kamakawa has less and less to fear from the senior branch of the service. Last autumn an extraordinary journalistic cull saw the premature retirement of four leading dance critics, with more than 200 years of ballet-going between them. At 23, time is on Kumakawa's side, as those who remember "Rudolf" are gradually pensioned off.Did Kumakawa see the force of their criticism? "It happens quite often. It looks like I'm doing too much technique because the technique has such a big impact But I am proud of my technique I have something others don't have.