User:Larry Billman

Larry Billman studied dance with Don Martin and James Truitte at the Lester Horton School and with Jack Cole and Eugene Loring in his hometown of Hollywood. After 15 years of film, television, stage and nightclub appearances and choreography, he made the transition to writer/director and began a 35-year-long career with Disney live entertainment, creating hundreds of shows for their theme parks worldwide. His other credits include directing Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus, Disney on Ice and serving as Creative Director for 6 non-Disney theme parks in Japan. As an avocation, he began writing books about the performers who had inspired him (Fred Astaire and Betty Grable) which led to Film Choreographers and Dance Directors, the first encyclopedia detailing the artists who made the movies “Move.” This led him to become a Dance on Film historian and lecturer at colleges and universities. He is currently writing a revised edition of the first encyclopedia and working on the companion book, Film Dancers.