Calvin Royal III, "Hallelujah " by Jeff Buckley, Directed by Andrii Didyk
ONE YEAR with Principal Dancer Calvin Royal III
Doing Things with Calvin Royal
III
Biography
.Calvin Royal III began his formal dance training under the direction of Suzanne Pomerantzeff and Patricia L. Paige at the Pinellas County Center for the Arts at Gibbs High School in St. Petersburg, Florida. He was a finalist at the Youth America Grand Prix Scholarship Competition in New York City in April 2006 and joined the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in September 2006. Royal was the recipient of the Ethan Stiefel Scholarship in 2006 and 2007. While at the ABT JKO School, Royal appeared in original works by Raymond Lukens and Jessica Lang.
Royal joined ABT II (now ABT Studio Company) in December 2007
and danced leading roles including Prince Siegfried in the White Swan and Black
Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake, George Balanchine’s Allegro
Brillante, Jerome Robbins’ Interplay, Antony Tudor’s Continuo, and
works by Edward Liaang, Aszure Barton, Jodie Gates and Brian Reeder.
Royal joined the main Company as an apprentice in October 2010
and the corps de ballet in April 2011. He was appointed a Soloist in
September 2017 and Principal Dancer in September 2020. His repertoire with the
Company includes the title role in Apollo, a Cavalier in Cinderella, Dorcon
in Daphnis and Chloe, Espada in Don Quixote, the third sailor
in Fancy Free, Persian Man in The Golden Cockerel, Pierrot in
Alexei Ratmansky’s Harlequinade, Reverend Brocklehurst in Jane
Eyre, Lescaut in Manon, the Recruit in Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, a
Carnival Dancer in Othello, Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet, the
Spanish Prince and Prince Fortune in The Sleeping Beauty, von
Rothbart, Benno and the Spanish Dance in Swan Lake, Jaseion in Sylvia,
Prince Coffee and Prince Cocoa in Whipped Cream, leading roles in Bach
Partita, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Her Notes, Piano Concerto #1, Seven
Sonatas, Symphonic Variations and Thirteen Diversions and
featured roles in AfterEffect, Black Tuesday, Clear, Company
B, Deuce Coupe, Duets, In the Upper Room, Raymonda
Divertissements and Sinfonietta.
He created the North Wind in A Gathering of Ghosts,
Bacchus in The Seasons, a Fairy Cavalier in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping
Beauty, leading roles in AFTERITE, Serenade after Plato’s Symposium and Songs
of Bukovina and featured roles in After You, Aftereffect (first
production), AfterEffect, Dream within a Dream (deferred), New American
Romance and Praedicere.
Royal was named a finalist at the 2013 Clive Barnes Awards
and, in 2014, was awarded the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship to further his
artistic development. Royal has been featured in global campaigns for GAP,
Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Target, Ralph Lauren and Canali. He was featured
in the 2019 Pirelli Calendar alongside Misty Copeland, photographed by famed
Scottish fashion, celebrity, and art photographer Albert Watson.
Royal was named the 2020-2021 Artist-in-Residence for the Vail
Dance Festival in Vail, Colorado.
ABT is grateful to Sharon Patrick for supporting the Dancer
Fund in honor of Calvin Royal III.
Source biography
https://www.abt.org/people/calvin-royal/
