Cara Butler
American stepdancer and choreographer
Cara Butler is an American stepdancer and choreographer. She is the younger sister of dancer Jean Butler.
01Dance career
Cara Butler studied with the widely respected Irish stepdance teacher Donny Golden. She and her sister, Jean, each won numerous national titles and regional titles, and placed well in international competitions. She has toured with the Irish folk group The Chieftains since 1992 performing traditional and contemporary Irish dances.
In 1999, Butler performed alongside her sister as a featured dancer in "Dancing on Dangerous Ground" which played in the Theatre Royal in London's West End. In 2005 she danced once again with her sister for the instructional DVD Irish Dance Masterclass with Jean Butler along with Tara Barry, Michael Patrick Gallagher, and Glenn Simpson.
Butler was the lead dancer in the Folgers coffee commercial "A Dancer's Morning".
Sources and credits
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- Cara Butler 2010.jpg by Candy Schwartz, CC BY 2.0
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