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| | The Academy of Dance on Film > About the Academy > Founder & President > Larry Billman |
 | | After 15 years of film, television, stage and nightclub performances, he made the transition to writer/director and began a career with Disney live entertainment, creating hundreds of shows for their theme parks around the world, eventually serving as director of entertainment for the opening of Tokyo Disneyland in 1983. |
 | | In 1998, he founded The Academy of Dance on Film, a nonprofit research center in Hollywood, which gathers and shares printed and visual material to document the history and honor the movement makers in commercial film, television and music video. |
 | | With education as a major activity of DOF, he lectures on "Dance in Film" at UC Irvine, CSU Long Beach, USC, Scripps College, San Diego State and other middle schools, colleges and universities. |
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