Calvin Royal III shines in AST's 'Swan Lake' and 'Romeo & Juliet'.

The article present an interview with Calvin Royal III, the third African American ballet dancer to rise to the rank of principal in American Ballet Theatre's 82-year-history. It further discusses leading performance in two of ballet's iconic classics, "Swan Lake" and "Romeo and Juliet;" the Black male dancers like Christopher Boatwright who performed those iconic classical ballet roles; and his inner thoughts and feelings about being a gay Black man.