Do we know how to pick 'em or what? Back in 2006, CL (then The Weekly Planet) featured young ballet dancer Calvin Royal III on our cover as one of Pinellas' young artists to watch. Since then, he's more than fulfilled the prediction of Suzanne Pomerantzeff, his teacher at Gibbs H.S./Pinellas County Center for the Arts: "His potential," said Pomerantzell, "is limitless."
After winning a scholarship to the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School of NYC's American Ballet Theater, he went on to become a member of ABT II, Ballet Theater's studio company. Now, according to today's New York Times, he's received a promotion: he will become an apprentice in the main company ABT's only new apprentice this year.
Read more of the story, including a splashy pic of Calvin on the ABT stage, after the break.