Cara Butler
{{short description|American stepdancer and choreographer|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{BLP sources|date=July 2010}}
{{Infobox dancer
| name = Cara Butler
| image = Cara Butler 2010.jpg
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| caption = Butler in 2010
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| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|10|10}}
| birth_place = United States
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| spouse = Jon Pilatzke
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| occupation = Dancer, choreographer
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| current_group = The Chieftains
| former_groups = Cherish the Ladies
Greenfields of America
Solas
| dances = Irish stepdance
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Cara Butler is an American stepdancer and choreographer. She is the younger sister of dancer Jean Butler.
Dance 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.celticcafe.com/celticcafe/Dance/JeanButler/MasterclassDVD/01_MasterClass.html|title=Jean Butler's Masterclass DVD - Jean Butler at the Celtic Cafe|website=www.celticcafe.com}}
Butler was the lead dancer in the Folgers coffee commercial "A Dancer's Morning".{{cite web|title=Cara Butler|url=http://stepcrew.com/cara-butler|publisher=The StepCrew|accessdate=12 January 2013}}
References
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External links
- [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SB&p_theme=sb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB046D6EB3E4395&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Newsbank.com (paywall)]
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Category:American female dancers
Category:Performers of Irish dance
Category:American choreographers
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century American women
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