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8,275 Followers, 1,153 Following, 496 Posts - Jean Butler (@jeanbutlerdance) on Instagram: "@jeanbutlerdance"
Feb 16, 2024 · Jean Butler, the female star of that show, has been in recovery ever since. She transformed herself into a contemporary dancer and choreographer, a postmodern minimalist whose work eschews the...
Feb 13, 2024 · Butler walked away from all that in the early 2000s and remade herself as a contemporary dancer and choreographer, working in an introspective, pared-down, almost minimalist mode. Now, after...
Jul 27, 2021 · Jean Butler is a choreographer, actress, and master of Irish dance. Who is Jean Butler? Jean Butler debuted her dancing career with the band The Chieftains when she was seventeen years old and traveled widely throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan.
Mar 1, 2020 · “Jean Butler is one of the most accomplished Irish dance artists of the last century and a pioneer in the field, expanding and re-imagining the vocabulary and boundaries of Irish step dance,” said Linda Murray, curator of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
Jean Butler was born on 14 March 1971 in Mineola, Long Island, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Dancing on Dangerous Ground (1999), The Brylcreem Boys (1998) and Riverdance: The Show (1995). She has been married to Cuan Hanley since 26 April 2001.
Mar 20, 2024 · We spoke with Jean Butler, dancer-choreographer and founder of Our Steps, about her creative process, reconfiguring the dance production "What We Hold" for the U.S. stage, and the importance of celebrating and archiving Irish dance history.
