Larry Attaway
Professor of Dance and Department Chair, Dance - JCA
Larry A. Attaway is Chair of the Department of Dance at Butler University and Executive Artistic Director of the Butler Ballet. Mr.Attaway is a composer, choreographer and administrator and has been actively working in the dance field since 1971. The majority of his professional work was created in collaboration with the renowned West Coast dance innovator, Bella Lewitzky. As Musical Director and Composer-in Residence for Ms. Lewitzky and the Lewitzky Dance Company he received commissions from the ARCO Foundation, the Krannart Center in Urbana, IL, the UCLA Center for the Performing Arts, the Los Angeles Festival and the Chateauvallon Festival in Toulon, France. His choreographic oeuvre includes multiple works for the Jordan Dance Ensemble and the 1980 reconstruction of the Russian Avant-garde Opera, Victory Over the Sun. In 2013 he choreographed a new production of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire as part of the inaugural season of the Schrott Center for the Arts and was featured in the Butler ArtsFest first season. In 2014 he created two new compositions, Idylwild and Spectre de les Ballet Russes, as part of the Butler Ballet mid-Winter Dance Festival. In September 2018, he collaborated with Professor Cynthia Pratt in the creation of A Gallery Of Memories, a site specific work for 110 dancers presented on the Butler Quad. His latest choreographic work The Mystery of Chapeau Royale was premiered as part of the Butler Ballet's Mid-Winter Dancers in February 2019. As executive-artistic Director for the Butler Ballet Mr. Attaway has produced full-length productions of Cinderella,Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Coppélia, and the company’s annual presentation of The Nutcracker. In addition to his work as department chair, Mr. Attaway is currently the Vice President of the National Association of Schools of Dance and serves as an accreditation site visitor and consultant for NASD. Mr. Attaway is an Associate Professor of Dance at Butler and has been at the University since 1997. Prior to his appointments at Butler, Mr.Attaway was the associate dean and member of the faculty at the California Institute of the Arts from 1972 until 1997.