He has choregraphed contemporary dance and also music videos including for Evermore and Ardijah, and for the World of Wearable Art (WOW) in Wellington.
Royal identifies with the iwi Te Arawa of the Rotorua and Bay of Plenty regions, Ngāti Raukawa, Uenukopako and Kāi Tahu of the South Island.
Okareka's 2008 show Tama Ma, premiered at the Tempo Dance Festival, Auckland, won awards and went on to tour New Zealand.
[4][3] Royal has a teaching practice having taught at the New Zealand School of Dance and Unitec Institute of Technology on the Bachelor of Performing Screen Arts.
[1] In the New Zealand Festival in 2020, he collaborated with the American dance company Exhale to produce a work called Hōkioi me te Vwōhali From Spirit Eagles Land.