DANCER Kynam Moore has performed across the world, starred in a YouTube clip which has received more than 28 million hits and featured in an Adidas advertising campaign.
And the 23-year-old has done it all despite suffering from severe dyspraxia – a neurological condition which affects his coordination and movement.WATCH: Kynam doing the 'C-walk'
Kynam, of Aspley, is currently auditioning for a place with a world-renowned dance company on an overseas tour next year and it's his toughest job to date.
He has to film himself performing a complex routine and send the footage Shaun Parker & Company in Australia.
Kynam didn't know he had dyspraxia until he was 19 years old.
He said: "I used to get frustrated because my body wouldn't do what I wanted it to. It's because the signal that my brain was sending to a part of my body telling it to move would get muddled.
"It meant that I had to rehearse over and over before I could get the routines right."
None of this has stopped Kynam from being successful – although his life could have taken a different path if it wasn't for his mum, Gill.
Seven years ago Kynam applied to study at Bilborough College but his mum swapped one of his subjects, from sociology to performing arts, without telling him.
He said: "When I turned up for my sociology class on the first day I wasn't on the register.
"I was absolutely furious when I found out my mum had swapped my subjects. She had handled my application because I was in Hong Kong at the time.
"She had a chat with staff at Bilborough and because I had got an A in GCSE dance, they told her I had really great potential.
"It was quite sneaky but obviously now I'm really pleased she did it. She has brought me up almost as a single parent and has been absolutely amazing."
While Kynam was still at school there was a sign of things to come when footage of him and four other dancers performing a style of dance called C-Walking went viral on YouTube, receiving more than 28.3 million hits.
Kynam – who features on the clip under the name of Kynamite – added: "We couldn't believe it when it got 1,000 views then 100,000 then 10 million and it just kept getting more. We were going crazy."
Despite all this, Kynam had no desire to become a professional dancer until his teachers at Bilborough made him believe that it was possible.
He said: "I will never forget that I truly owe all this success to Bilborough College.
"I literally would not have become a dancer without the help and direction of the staff there."
After leaving Bilborough, Kynam won a place at one of the best dance schools in the country, the London Contemporary Dance School.
There were 2,500 applications for 55 places and the school was so impressed with Kynam they offered him a spot, even though they were full.
While he was still studying he secured work dancing in the Tannhauser opera at the Royal Opera House in London with world famous choreographer Jasmin Vardimon. He also performed with a dance company across the Middle East, all before he graduated.
After graduating, performances in India and a tour of the Canary Islands with a dance company followed.
Last year, he won a competition to be one of the stars of an Adidas advertising campaign called We Are London which celebrated talent and creativity in the city.
He added: "I'm really lucky because since I started dancing I've only ever had a few weeks where I haven't been working, but I'm very humble and I just hope that everything I've achieved so far is just a stepping stone to more."
To see Kynam strut his stuff on YouTube, visit http://youtu.be/F2TSy0Z5qTE
