Butler, Rena

Performance History(Chicago, Illinois)

2025–26 Season: Choreographer, Parsifal

San Francisco Opera Highlights: Choreographer of Orpheus and Eurydice

Recent and Upcoming: Commissions with The Netherlands’ Het Nationale Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Sweden’s Norrdans, AIM by Kyle Abraham, Stuttgart’s Gauthier Dance, Cincinnati Ballet, SALT Dance, Oregon Ballet Theater, The Juilliard School, Charlotte Ballet, BalletX, Le Ballet de l’Opéra Grand Avignon, Arles Youth Ballet, Parsons Dance, Whim W’Him; Proximity (Lyric Opera of Chicago); film for Third Coast Percussion x Devonté Hynes/Blood Orange

Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography 2024 (Orpheus and Eurydice)

Website: renabutler.com

@renabutler