About
| Birth Name: | Kenneth John Ortega |
| Birth Notes: | 18 April 1950, Palo Alto, California, USA |
Filmography
| And God Created Woman (1988) as Mike |
| This Is It (2009) as Himself |
| High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) |
| Hocus Pocus (1993) |
| Newsies (1992) |
| This Is It (2009) |
| Awilda and a Bee (2008) as Male School Spelling Bee judge |
| Ear of the Heart: The Music of Galt MacDermot (2010) as Himself - Interviewee/Director |
| Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (2008) as Himself |
| Move (2010) as Himself |
| Salsa (1988) as Himself |
| Underground Dance Masters: Final History of a Forgotten Era (2008) as Xanadu Choreographer |
| In the Heights (2011) |
Trivia
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* Has worked with Madonna, Cher , Gloria Estefan and Elton John. * As of 2007, he has directed three out of the four successful Disney Channel Original Movies with High School Musical (2006), The Cheetah Girls 2 (2006) and High School Musical 2 (2007). * On set, if he catches an actor or actress yawning, he forces them to pay him a dollar. After production he donates all the proceeds to "The Make a Wish Foundation". * Longtime personal friend and choreographer to Michael Jackson . |
Quotes
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* [On what he learned from his mentor, Gene Kelly] If you didn't understand how to design your choreography for the camera, then you were shortchanging yourself and would never come to fully realize your worth. It would have meant very little if I hadn't come to understand technically how to put the work up. * There's an old Fred Astaire movie where the stage becomes bigger and deeper and more complex. Moments like that really did impact on me and influence me. I want to bring a little of that to High School Musical 3 - that the whole world is a stage. |
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