ARTICLES
BOSTON GLOBE, At Jacob's Pillow, bad boys are really good (July 2007)
Thomas's fledgling company, which he calls a creative dance lab, made its debut at Jacob's Pillow in celebration of the festival's 75th anniversary, and these bad boys are really very, very good... Royon's world premiere quartet "Take 4" was dynamite. It featured edgier music (by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Herbert), and a provocative setup, beginning and ending in stark squares of light. The four dancers came alive as if someone had just wound them up, and they exploded into movement that pushed at the edges -- jazzy, hip-hop-flavored isolations, corkscrew turns, capoeira-influenced floorwork, and an unapologetic in-your-face bravado... [ read more ]
JUILLIARD JOURNAL, Alumni News: Bennyroyce Royon (February 2007)
Life after Juilliard has been quite busy for recent graduate Bennyroyce Royon (B.F.A. '06, dance). In addition to dancing with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet this season, his interest in choreography has prompted him to launch his own dance production company, Bennyroyce & Company. He is working on a collaborative dance film project that he hopes to release in late spring or early summer, to coincide with workshops at the New York Institute for Special Education, a school for disabled children... [ read more ]
