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Ep. 10: Breaking the ballet mold, with Calvin Royal III
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Episode 10 of The Leadership Dance features Calvin Royal III, Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre and a prominent figure in the dance world. In this inspiring conversation, he shares his breakthrough journey from discovering dance at the...
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Calvin Royal III
In this position of being a principal dancer, I see that as a leadership position. That is one that is not just about what I do on the stage and my presence on the stage, but it's what I do off stage as well that's able to. To teach and mentor. And I'm very sensitive to energy. And if I see that someone is not doing so well, like it's going over and checking in with them and, you know, seeing what's going on with them and seeing how to offer worth any sort of nuggets of wisdom that I would have loved to have had when I was in their shoes. You know, it's being able to have that sort of influence and impact. I. I just love being able to now, as a principal dancer, step into new roles on the stage as well. As we were talking about before, this idea and, and actual practice of creating representation on the stage in roles that, you know, have not been seen done this way before. And I think it's really important for me to be able to continue to build on that in ways both on stage and off.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
Hi, everyone, and welcome to the Leadership Dance. I'm Alisa sue lynch and I am so excited about today's conversation with the one and only Calvin Royal iii. Calvin is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, and through sheer determination and artistic excellence, he. He's risen to the top of the ballet world. After starting ballet at age 14, he competed and gained recognition as a finalist at the Youth America Grand Prix, which led to a scholarship at ABT's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School. Within two years, he was promoted to ABT II and he quickly earned a position with ABT's main company, nominations for the Clive Barnes Award and the Leonor Annenberg Fellowship. In 2017, he was promoted to soloist, and his performances in Swan Lake and Manon and other notable production garnered glowing Reviews. Then in 2020, he made history as the third African American principal dancer in ABT's history. Calvin has performed worldwide, collaborating with renowned choreographers, and in 2024, he curated and co produced the Joyce Theater's Ballet Festival program, Unite. His journey reflects resilience, mentorship, and the transformative power of dance. Thank you so much for joining me, Calvin.
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Calvin Royal III
Thank you so much for having me. Elisa.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
I definitely want to talk about your meteoric rise to stardom, but first, I really want to know what your childhood was like. You were born in Georgia and raised in a military family before moving to Tampa Bay, Florida at the age of six. Tell us, what was your upbringing like? What did you dream of becoming when you were younger. And as you think about your upbringing, did it influence how you thought about your career?
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Calvin Royal III
So, yeah, I grew up in sort of a military environment. My dad was in the army, and we would move around every two years. So my upbringing, from what I remember, was heavily influenced by travel. We were always on the go, picking up, going to a new city, a new town. And it wasn't until actually my parents separated. I was in the first grade. My mom, my brother and I, we moved back home in a way, because that's to Florida. My. My mom and my dad, they met in high school in Florida. And so we moved back to Florida with my. My grandmother on my mom's side. And it wasn't until then being with my grandmother, who was a lover of all the cultural arts. She loved music and dance and opera. And so we were always exposed to all of that in the house, whether it was on TV or on the radio. And so being sort of exposed to that and immersed in her love of those things, I felt like I sort of grabbed and latched on to. To those things too. And so I didn't necessarily knew what I wanted to become or wanted to be in the future. I just knew or felt at that time a love for these things, like my grandmother did. It was just her passion for. It was so. It was so infectious. And so I just kind of always wanted to hear stories she told or always wanted to hear music that she was listening to in those earlier years. That was sort of my environment and what I was exposed to. And so it was really just about that, following in her footsteps, that love and that passion that she had for it.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
That's wonderful that you grew up around so much culture. And I'm curious, what type of music did your grandmother listen to in the house?
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Calvin Royal III
It was a lot of gospel. She. She loved soul music, R and B. She also really loved classical music. And she would actually, when my brother and I were really rowdy or my mom would be working, and she would have us to put us in the car and would go right around the neighborhood and she would put on the classical music station and we'd fall asleep. Like, it was so relaxing for us, and it was probably relaxing for her that she didn't have to deal with us running around, but she. Yeah, she just. She loved it all. And so we heard it all and was exposed to it all.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
So you didn't start studying ballet until you were a teenager, which is relatively late. How did you discover your love for dance?
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Calvin Royal III
I started ballet When I was a freshman in high school, I went to performing arts high school in Florida. And actually, it was before that that I discovered dance. My mom was actually. She studied ballet and other forms of dance when she was a kid. And I was at home one day after school in middle school, and I saw this audition notice that came on the local news about a local community project called the Chocolate Nutcracker. And it just looked so cool. I remember calling my mom immediately after seeing this and just telling her that I would love to go and just kind of check it out. And I think because she had been exposed to dance with my grandma's influence, too, on her life growing up, it was something that I wanted to explore, and she didn't discourage me from doing it. And she took me to the audition. I got into the production. What drew me most to dance was it was a way of coming together. There was people from all over the community from different backgrounds. There were people that had been training in dance for many years, and there were people like me who had never stepped foot in a dance studio before. But being surrounded by all of these different people from different backgrounds and putting together this production was so exciting for me. We would learn routines in jazz dance and West African dancing and hip hop. And it was just such a rich exposure to this way of expressing myself that I didn't really necessarily have before growing up, moving from town to town in a military family. And I just remember falling in love with dance then and there when I first joined the Chocolate Nutcracker. And that's sort of over the years what led me into wanting to study music. Because I remember telling my grandma that I. I wanted to learn how to play the piano, and she bought me this keyboard one year for Christmas. So I was learning how to play music, and I thought that that might have been a path that I would go down. In eighth grade, I auditioned for the High School of Performing Arts. And I got into the dance program after having auditioned for both music and dance. And so I went down this path of starting ballet and modern dance training for the very first time when I was 14. And it was very hard. If anybody's ever taken a ballet class or have, it's incredibly demanding physically, but also mentally learning all of the vocabulary, the terminology, how to get the coordination and so that you're not doing something that's going to injure yourself. When I started my training at 14, it was incredibly hard. And I do remember wanting to maybe switch to something else after my freshman year. But I had a teacher who was the director of the dance program, Mrs. P. Who just. She had an incredible passion for ballet and for dance and for giving young people this opportunity to explore something, even if they didn't go on to become a dancer in the future. And she wasn't going to let me leave. She wanted to just keep giving me as much as she could and just realizing that I was in an environment that, although it was challenging and although it was something that I didn't quite get yet, having that encouragement and that belief in me at that time by Mrs. P. Was what led me to fall more and more in love with this idea of dance. And even though it was a more structured environment, once I started making progress, I could see that with each year, things got better and better and a little bit easier, and then I could get stronger and go further with it. So, yeah, I fell in love. Fell in love with dance from the Chocolate Nutcracker through that experience of starting my training and growing through it.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
You sound really lucky to have had such a supportive teacher to inspire you and support you through your journey. That's really incredible. One other question I had, though, is you mentioned that you grew up playing music, and I know you're married to a musician now. Do you still play as well and what instrument?
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Calvin Royal III
If so, I unfortunately don't still play. I would be incredibly embarrassed to try. I love the piano, and yes, my husband is a pianist. And I think that music is such a vital part of my life and what I do as a dancer because that's what gives the momentum and rhythm and breath. And it's actually what helped me in those earlier years to sort of translate the structure of ballet, like having those rhythms and the music that I learned from being in the Chocolate Nutcracker. But also studying a little bit of piano helped me learn and pick up choreography and steps once I started training more in ballet.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
My mother was a classical pianist, and she taught piano in our house while I was growing up. So I also grew up with her practicing piano classical in the morning and then just hearing all the students throughout the day. And I also studied piano and felt like when I was dancing, I also loved the musicality, and that also inspired me. But then when I got into modern dance, sometimes it's. It was very discordant music or even dancing to silence, where you have to create your own music. But I have always felt you, Calvin in particular, are such a musical dancer. You really bring out that through your performances, and it just feels really holistic when you're performing.
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Calvin Royal III
Thank you. It's I mean, music, as I said, is such a big part of my life, and it's everything to me. So I'm glad that it reaches because it's even, as you said, when you don't have music, there's still that rhythm. They're still finding your way to convey something that has a purpose and rhythm in the music, even when there's no music.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
So, Calvin, you are currently a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, which is one of the most celebrated dance companies in the world. As you know, I serve on the board. When you were promoted, you made history by becoming the third African American principal dancer in the company's history, with Desmond Richardson being first in 1997 and then Misty Copeland in 2015. What was that moment like when you found out that you were being promoted to principal dancer? And for all the business people listening, that's like being promoted to the executive level in a large corporation. Tell us what that was like.
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Calvin Royal III
When I think about my journey to principal, it was one of many challenges. I mean, coming to ballet so late. I mean, a lot of my colleagues, they'll tell me that they started ballet when they were three years old, and that was me. Exactly. So, you know.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
But you made it higher than I did, though.
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Calvin Royal III
It's just. It's one of those things that you see your whole life and everything that you. All of the challenges that you've had to overcome physically, mentally, gaining the confidence to show up and be present and learn and grow. So once it was announced that I was principal with abt, it just felt like the skies opened up even more and that it wasn't like a final destination for me, but was an acknowledgment of all of that work and all of the challenges that went into getting to that level. For me, Principal Dancer is so much more than just the title alone. And it's one of those things that I see as a. As a position of influence and inspiration. It's a position of knowing that the work that you put in was for something that you felt in your heart, you want it to be one day. And that was for me, I. I never said it out loud. A lot of times that I wanted to become a principal, but I knew in my heart that that was the level, whether I became a principal or not, that I wanted to aspire to reach within myself, within my artistry, within my technique. When I reached that level and that acknowledgement from the company, it was just like the skies just opened up for me.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
Congratulations.
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Calvin Royal III
Thank you.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
You've made it to the pinnacle of a career in the ballet world. But can you share some of the challenges or barriers you faced along the way? How did you navigate those obstacles and ultimately find your unique voice as a dancer within such a competitive and traditionally Eurocentric art form?
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Calvin Royal III
Ballet is hard, and it's beautiful when you see the end product. That's what a lot of people generally see. But it's that whole arc of coming into something that is so foreign to the body, and it's getting the body to do these things that is not natural in some ways for the body to do. So for me, one of the biggest barriers or challenges that I remember facing was earlier on, as I mentioned in my training, but still going through this growth spurt and having to sort of fit into the mold of a classical vocabulary in my body and getting into do these things that literally my body was rejecting sometimes. It was a real challenge for me to come to this art form so late, at 14. That was something that I had to, you know, constantly work towards, constantly catch up on. I realized over the years how competitive ballet can be. It's, you know, still one of those things that not everyone can do. And once you reach the top of the ballet world, there are still so few spots. You know, even in our own company, it's like there's a certain number of performances that you get every season. And sometimes you might get only one chance to get out there and not only prove yourself for the next opportunity, but to, you know, do everything that you've been working to do. And because it's a live art form, sometimes, you know, you can't say cut and go back and do an edit. It's like this is living and breathing. So, you know, it was that. It was advocate learning how to advocate for myself, you know, at different stages of my development, where in my mind or in my heart, I felt like I was over there. But in reality, I still had two or three more years before I could reach that level that I felt in my heart. I want it to be at a certain stage of my development.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
Can you talk a little bit more about what did that look like, Advocating for yourself.
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Calvin Royal III
Most ballet companies are very hierarchical. So, you know, you have apprentices that first joined the company. You have the corps de ballet, which is a step up from that. You have soloists who get opportunities to perform more featured roles, and you have the principal dancers, which, as you said, is like being a top level exec of a company. And so going in and advocating for yourself. Let's say I was in the corps De Ballet, which is sort of the lower rank of the company, going into the artistic director's office, scheduling a meeting. And what I remember doing was writing down sort of a wish list of. Of roles or just goals for myself for that year, or you're five years down the line. And sharing very transparently with my director about what those things are and why they mean so much to me and why they're important that I focus on them, even if they weren't on the radar of my director. And so I think having done that, sometimes it worked, and sometimes I would have to go back in three months later or six months later just to keep that conversation going so that the other side knew that I really wanted this. I really wanted to grow. I really wanted to become all those things that were on that wish list of mine to become. That's what, for me, advocating for yourself or for myself at the time looked like it was something I felt was important to at least get it out so that I didn't. It didn't just sit here in my mind that I was sharing that.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
I was just thinking, it's wonderful that you did that, because even in business, it's so important that we advocate for ourselves. And I had to learn that. And I didn't learn that until I became a manager, and I was then managing a team of people. And some people would come in and advocate for themselves, saying, hey, you know, I really want to get promoted to the next level. When is that going to happen? Most often, the men would do that, and then other people would come in and just talk about what they were working on. And I remember that planting in my mind. The person who came in and said, hey, I have these aspirations, then that was in the back of my mind. And so I do think advocacy and getting comfortable doing that for ourselves is really critical if we do want to advance in our careers or get new growth opportunities. So that's wonderful that you did that. Did you have more thoughts around the barriers or challenges that you faced?
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Calvin Royal III
Or if I can be frank, the ballet world is definitely moving forward in terms of representation on the stage, but also behind the scenes, the people and positions of leadership, the coaches, the people that are recruiting new talent from the level of the school, the company. But I do remember when I first joined the company, in the school even, it was challenging for me to see sort of where I fit or the possibilities of how far I could go, because there were not always folk that looked like me in those positions that I aspired to. And so I think that that was something that I also remember having to sort of question and navigate because it just wasn't always visible in my environment as it was, for example, back home in the Chocolate Nutcracker. There were black kids, Asian kids, Latin kids, like, people from all different backgrounds. And so you come to a space that the pool narrows, and you look around and it's like, well, I get that opportunity if I have the skin or if I, you know, will they see me as just as good as so and so? So I remember there were a lot of questions back then that I had, because there was this feeling of not an incredible amount of representation.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
It's so powerful walking into a room where there are other people who look like you. And I still feel that when I walk into a room of all Asian American executives, immediately you have some shared experiences and perspectives. But it's great to have that community. But honestly, you are such a role model in your role as a principal dancer at abt, so now people can see themselves in you, which is incredible.
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Calvin Royal III
Thank you. Yeah, I love that. And I hope that that will continue to be something that is a priority for the ballet world, specifically because we want to show this beautiful art and array of talent, but also talent that is representative of the world in which we live.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
So in 2019, when you were still a soloist with ABT, you made a major debut as the lead in George Balanchine's Apollo. And in a New York Times article, you said that Apollo represents leadership to me. Talk more about that. What does leadership mean to you, and how do you approach embodying leadership through your performances and in your life? Are there lessons you've learned from dance that have helped shape you?
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Calvin Royal III
Yeah. So leadership to me is being in this point of my life and career, I have been able to see and look around and see those leaders in life that really made an impact on me and others. And as you mentioned, Apollo was one of the first major roles that I was able to perform as a soloist and in ballet. For those who aren't familiar with the role of Apollo, you know, he's this sort of guiding figure for his muses in the ballet that are in the cultural art. So there's dance, music, mime, and helping to sort of cultivate their artistic pursuits. And so in this position of being a principal dancer, I see that as a leadership position. That is one that is not just about what I do on the stage and my presence on the stage, but it's what I do off stage as well that's able to. To teach and mentor. And I'm very sensitive to energy. And if I see that someone is not doing so well, like it's going over and checking in with them and, you know, seeing what's going on with them and seeing how to offer word, any sort of nuggets of wisdom that I would have loved to have had when I was in their shoes. You know, it's being able to have that sort of influence and impact. I just love being able to now, as a principal dancer, step into new roles on the stage as well. As we were talking about before, this idea and actual practice of creating representation on the stage in roles that have not been seen done this way before. And I think it's really important for me to be able to continue to build on that in ways both on stage and off.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
Wonderful. Last year, you curated and co produced Unite, A Global Celebration of Ballet at the Joyce Theater in New York City, which was one of my favorite theaters to perform in when I was dancing. You brought together dancers from nine companies and 17 choreographers in the festival. That is quite an accomplishment. Tell us more about Unite and what were your goals?
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Calvin Royal III
Yes, thank you. It was one of the largest undertakings that I have have been gifted and be a part of. Unite, for me, came out of this idea of wanting to showcase the beautiful array of artistry and diversity in ballet today and. And have it as a celebration with all of our different cultures and background. I really wanted to also bring together some of the most impactful pieces and choreographies and choreographers in the ballet world who are both established and emerging. So we had choreographers like Balanchine and Kenneth McMillan and other notable figures in ballet that have gone on to create hundreds of important works. But we also had newer choreographers of today that I had been sort of eyeing at different showings and on social media that I really wanted to give these artists this space and opportunity to create something new and create something that spoke to their artistry and their what was within them to share with the world. And so Unite was born. And we had eight performances. It was two programs that when brought together, they sort of celebrated, in my opinion, they celebrated this beautiful arc of that diversity in ballet. And we also were able to include a young up and coming dancer who just recently joined the ABT JKO School, who I had seen at the Youth America Grand Prix competition, which is the competition that I had done and got the scholarship to ABT many years ago. So it was very full circle and I wanted to sort of unite all of those pieces of inspiration, artistry, cultural background, diversity of repertoire. We had live musicians, we had a vocalist. So it was just such a beautiful culmination of this idea of unity and dance and ballet that I see in the world and wanted to sort of bring together. And I'm just so thankful to the Joyce team and the whole team that worked on helping me bring this vision to life. Because this is the type of thing that I want to continue working towards in the ballet world is. Is to really celebrate all of the things that make us different and unique and special in our own way. That's not to sort of diminish the quality, but to showcase that that quality is out there. And why not bring us all together and celebrate that? That's what we do with Unite.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
You're speaking my language, and it sounds incredible and like a huge undertaking as you reflect back on curating that, producing it. What was the creative process like for you? And was it different from the process of preparing for a new role or a performance? Like, what did you learn about yourself from that experience?
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Calvin Royal III
One of the biggest things at the very beginning of the process was devising a budget in putting together performances. You know, it's so many cost that goes into producing a performance, and it's the artist cost, it's the crew, it's the costumes, it's the lighting, it's all of these elements. It's being able to go out and do the fundraising to make sure that the artists are happy with what they're. What they're getting compensated to come and do. And the biggest thing that I wanted to make sure of through this process and that I learned about myself, is that I wanted this to be a great experience for everyone. I didn't want anyone doing this to feel like they were doing me a favor, but that they were part of something that was them sharing and contributing to the bigger idea of unity and coming together and being this fearless, bold, talented community. And so, on the artistic side, like, as I mentioned before, I started with the artist, I started with the choreographies. That felt impactful, not only to the history of the dance world, but to me personally. And I just knowing all the artists that thankfully said yes to signing on and doing this with us, I knew that they were good people, and I knew that I knew what they'd done in their respective careers. And to be able to bring all of that energy and momentum and just excitement and celebratory spirit to this, it just inspired me to want to continue to do more of it.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
You know, unity is something that we need today more than ever in this world. And I'm curious, is there a unite too in the works or is that something you're interested in doing?
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Calvin Royal III
Oh, 100%. Even as we were in the process with the Joyce Theater of producing, co producing this together, you know, there were the conversations about how can we build on this momentum and how can we make it even more of that celebration into the future. So stay tuned for part two.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
Awesome. Awesome. I'll be there this time. So what else is on the horizon over the next year or so for you? What are you excited about?
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Calvin Royal III
I will be with abt. We're performing, we're touring quite a bit in the spring. We're actually going down to the Kennedy center in Washington D.C. next week to perform a new production that we premiered in the fall season, Crime and Punishment. We're going on tour to Orange county with a production by Christopher Wheeldon called the Winter's Tale to Korea for the Seoul, Korea for the first time in many years on tour. Oh, very cool. Yeah, it's really, really exciting. We're doing a gala program of different works from ABT's repertoire from the classics to more contemporary newer ballets. And this coming season in New York at the Metropolitan Opera House, which is for me the stage where I sort of grew up performing with ABT since joining the company in 2010. We have our our five week season in the summer from June 10th through the middle of July, where each week it's a different production. So I'll do Swan Lake, I'll do Giselle, I'll perform in the Winter's Tale, Wayne McGregor's wolf works, which is a very contemporary take on different stories based on Virginia Woolf writings in her life, which is really exciting. And then we have a little bit of a break for the summer. I'll go and perform at the Vail Dance Festival this summer again, which has been such a creative and artistic home for me during the summers when we're on break from abt, working with dancers from all over the country. And then we're back to rehearsals for our fall season with ABT in September.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
I love that ABT is bringing in new choreographers to create work on the company or even just restaging other companies productions. It's really mixing up the repertoire quite a bit, which is exciting. And I also love that you are doing so many performances later this year. So everybody has to go see Calvin. Really. It's like must not miss.
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Calvin Royal III
Okay, thank you.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
Since this podcast is to help people with choreographing their careers. I also have to ask, have you started thinking about what's next for you after your performing career? Not that we want you to stop dancing yet.
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Calvin Royal III
Yeah. So I. I think I've gotten more comfortable over the years with thinking about sort of that next chapter or next stage of. Of life and career. And having had this experience in producing and being able to bring artists of. Of diverse back and experiences two together, I definitely want to do more of that into the future. I have been, as early as I can remember, I've kept so many journals, and I only recently started going back and reflecting on those times when I first moved to New York and when I first joined the company and what those experiences were like and what was going through my head at that time. And I've learned so much over the course of my career that I would love to explore sort of a literary path as well, being able to share those experiences and sort of illuminate nuggets of wisdom that. That I've experienced and were ever given over the years to inspire that next generation. And of course, as you said, I. I don't want to leave the stage too soon, but, you know, I definitely want to continue to deepen my artistic experience and interpretations of roles that I've done and debuted, and I want to continue to build on those. So I just want the sky to be the limit.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
I love that. So tell us, what do you enjoy doing when you're not rehearsing or performing.
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Calvin Royal III
Aside from just completely resting? Because being. Being a professional dancer is very physically demanding job. So when I'm not dancing, I try to balance that with rest and sort of like a very Zen environment. But I love to be in nature. My husband and I, we actually on some of our breaks, will go and visit some national parks and just sort of be immersed in the beauty and glory of. Of feeling this big in the universe. So I think for me, that's. That's gold is being able to be in nature, do hikes, sometimes do nothing and just. And just. And just be. And look around and see the beauty of nature.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
You know, I love nature too, and I definitely want to have you guys out to visit me on the. In the Pacific Northwest. It's really so gorgeous out here.
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Calvin Royal III
We would love that.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
Okay, so what advice would you give to younger Calvin about navigating your career while staying true to yourself?
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Calvin Royal III
There's so many things that I would say, but if I had to sort of distill it, it would be to not be afraid to be brave. I remember having a lot of questions about am I good enough? Will I be able to reach this level? Will I not? Do I see anyone at that level that I want to be? And I'm just so thankful that over the years, gaining that confidence to be brave and to step into spaces that I didn't see myself represented fully, I would, I would say to not be afraid to be brave.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
That's great advice. Well, Kelvin, it's been an absolute joy to have this conversation with you. You are an incredible, beautiful performer, person and role model for others and I am truly grateful to have you as a friend. Thank you for sharing your Leadership Dance on the podcast.
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Calvin Royal III
This has been so wonderful. Thank you for having me on and to be able to share my story and my experiences. It's truly wonderful.
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Alisa Sue Lynch
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