Wade Robson

So You Think You Can Dance - Finale - Who Will Win?

American Idol - Found Aug. 7, 2008
... must be tired too, because there weren?t any routines that really grabbed me last night.  Wade Robson?s lovely Lyrical was my favorite...

Posted on August 7, 2008, 3:46 am

'SYTYCD' recap: Believe the hype

Entertainment Weekly Online - Found Aug. 7, 2008
... about a fighting couple that breaks up and Katee and Joshua's breathtaking, impeccably danced Wade Robson (!!!) routine about a fighting...
'So You Think You Can Dance': Mounting exhaustion - Los Angeles Times
U.S.'s Top 4: Mary Murphy and Dan Karaty's weekly recap - CTV.ca
Thursday | 'So You Think You Can Dance' finale - Miami Herald
Final four flubs on "So You Think You Can Dance" - Reuters
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Entertainment Weekly Online

Posted on August 7, 2008, 9:58 am

So You Think You Can Dance: Twitch and Katee Make the Top 8

LAist - Found Jul. 23, 2008
All the ballroom styles are a challenging. Favorite dancer of all time: Desmond Richardson. Wade Robson is one of my heroes. He's a tall guy.

Posted on July 23, 2008, 5:30 am

American Idol Receives 5 Emmy Nominations, So You Think You Can ...

American Idol - Found Jul. 17, 2008
... in the Outstanding Choreography category: Hummingbird and flower / ?The Chairman?s Waltz? by Wade Robson Transformers / ?Fuego? by...

Posted on July 17, 2008, 11:17 am

'So You Think You Can Dance' recap: One surprise

Entertainment Weekly Online - Found Jun. 28, 2008
(Wade Robson probably could've done it too, but he would've added ''homages'' to Moonwalker, ''Black or White,'' and, inexplicably, ''Remember...

Posted on June 28, 2008, 9:53 am

'So You Think You Can Dance' recap: First goodbyes

Entertainment Weekly Online - Found Jun. 13, 2008
The night began heading south pretty quickly, with a Wade Robson group number that wasn't his usual mix of virtuosic brilliance so much as it...

Posted on June 13, 2008, 10:29 am

The top 10 dances of the season -- "So You Think You Can Dance ...

Seattle Post Intelligencer - Found Aug. 12, 2008
Music: 'Hometown Glory' -- Adele Choreographer: Mia Michaels Honorable mentions: Katee and Joshua/Wade Robson lyrical, Top 10 girl and boy...

Posted on August 12, 2008, 6:39 am

So You Think You Can Dance picks a winner

Curlio - Found Aug. 9, 2008
... dance from a few weeks ago to 'Five Guys Named Moe.' The cast of Criss Angel Believe come out to dance a routine choreographed by Wade Robson.
Hip-hop grannies - CNN
Hip-hop could "big up" or burden Obama - Reuters
Kanye West Urges Fans To 'Be Accepting Of Different People' -- And ... - MTV
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CNN

Posted on August 9, 2008, 5:38 am

So You Think You Can Survive the Hiatus?

Houston Chronicle - Found Aug. 8, 2008
The Cast of Believe, choreographed by Wade Robson Song: Homage to the Rabbits, by Eric Serra We're not sure who hooked supertool magician...

Posted on August 8, 2008, 7:40 am

So You Think Mia Really Danced Them?

Houston Chronicle - Found Aug. 7, 2008
... he wouldn't have expected her to be in the top 4.' Katee/Joshua: Lyrical, choreographed by Wade Robson, whose inspiration is 'love is hard...
Test Pattern: Right man won Dance title - MSNBC
'So You Think You Can Dance': The winner is... - Entertainment Weekly Online
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MSNBC

Posted on August 7, 2008, 7:21 am

Wade Robson Biography

Wade Robson
extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Wade Robson
Born September 17, 1982 (age 25)
Flag of Australia Brisbane, Australia
Occupation Dancer, choreographer, director, songwriter
Spouse(s) Amanda Rodriguez (2005-present)[1]
Official website

Wade Jeremy William Robson (born September 17, 1982) is an Australian dancer, choreographer, producer and songwriter. He began performing as a dancer at the age of five, and as a child worked as a back-up dancer for Michael Jackson. He is also an award-winning choreographer and has directed music videos and world tours for music artists, most notably for 'N Sync and Britney Spears. Robson has found success as a competition judge, both for his own MTV show, The Wade Robson Project, and the televised competition So You Think You Can Dance. He won an Emmy for his choreography on the latter show in 2007.

Contents

Early life

Robson was born on September 17, 1982,[2] in Brisbane, Australia, to Lynette Joy and Dennis Leslie Robson. He has an older brother, Shane, and an older sister, Chantal. According to his mother, she played Michael Jackson's Thriller non-stop while she was pregnant with him.[3] Robson began dancing at the age of two, and when he saw the music video to the hugely popular "Thriller" song, he had it memorized by the time he was three.[4] He appeared on the Australian TV talent show "New Faces4" in 1986. He performed a dance routine of the Jackson hit, "Smooth Criminal", complete with a miniature version of the outfit as depicted in the video. He won the competition, and the prize was a chance to meet Jackson.[4] When Jackson himself toured Australia the following year for the Bad tour, Robson's routines and costumes came to Jackson's attention. Jackson was so impressed, he invited Robson to perform at his Brisbane concert.[3]

Career

Early career

Robson was in a talent troupe called Johnny Young's Talent school, and the group did fourteen shows a week, usually at venues like shopping malls. It was a performance, however, at Disneyland at the age of seven that sparked Robson's interest in America. So when he was nine, he, his mother and his sister made the move there. Jackson assisted them in the move, and recruited Robson to appear in three of Jackson's music videos: "Black or White", "Jam" and "Heal the World".[4]

Before long, and at the tender age of 11, Robson had an agent. They formed a singing group called Quo with another young boy, and by the end of the year put out an album with Sony. The following year, he was teaching dance classes in Hollywood.[4] He formed a troupe of dancing children which performed internationally.[5] He received his first choreography job for the R&B group Immature at fourteen. The job led to others, for artists such as Britney Spears. Being a self-described "short little white kid", his clients were sometimes hesitant to follow his direction.[4] When Spears first interviewed Robson to choreograph her tour, she exclaimed "He's a friggin' baby!", as she had expected him to be in his 30s or 40s. But his talent often won such clients over.[3]

During the late 1990s, while still a teenager, Robson choreographed Spears's Pepsi commercials, including one which aired during the 2001 Super Bowl. He choreographed the performance by 'N Sync and Spears at the 1999 Video Music Awards, and he co-directed Spears's 1999-2000 world tours as well as 'N Sync's 2000 No Strings Attached Tour. In 2001, he choreographed Spears' I'm a Slave 4 U video, and was choreographer and director of N'Sync's 2001 "Pop Odyssey" tour. In the N'sync music video "Pop," Robson had to fill in for N'sync member Joey Fatone during several of the dance sequences because of an injury that Joey sustained on the set. Wade can be seen throughout the "Pop" music video. That same year, he directed Spears' "Dream Within A Dream" tour. During the tour, rumors began to circulate that he and Spears (who was dating Justin Timberlake at the time) were having an affair. Robson denied all such allegations, saying "Britney and I had such a close creative relationship people always tried to connect us."[3]

Robson was also a member of the rap duo, "Quo," which was on Jackson's label.[3]

Adult career

The logo for the Wade Robson Project

Robson is the creator and host of MTV's The Wade Robson Project, a talent search competition for hip hop dancers.[6] The program was sponsored by Juice Batteries.[7]

In 2002, Robson was named one of Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch".

Dance clothing company Power T Dance developed a line of name-brand consumer dance shoes with Robson. The shoes were distributed in the U.S. through the Ralph Libonati Co.[8]

In 2004, Disney commissioned Robson to direct three musical movies for Disney.[9]

Robson has joined several other high profile choreographers, such as Mia Michaels and Shane Sparks on the PULSE tour, a series of nationwide weekend workshops designed to give rising commercial dancers the chance to train under top choreographers.[10]

Robson is currently choreogarphing a Las Vegas show called "Criss Angel:Believe" for Cirque Du Soleil.

Robson giving feedback to contestants after a performance on the July 18, 2007 episode of So You Think You Can Dance
Robson giving feedback to contestants after a performance on the July 18, 2007 episode of So You Think You Can Dance

In 2007, Robson began choreographing the American Idols LIVE! Tour. He has also choreographed both group and partner pieces for the second and third seasons of "So You Think You Can Dance". In the third season Robson choreographed a "Hummingbird" routine that was lauded by Executive Producer Nigel Lythgoe as "absolutely genius, brilliant, and one of those routines that we will remember on this series for a very long time."[11] On September 8, 2007, Robson won an Emmy in Outstanding Choreography for the routine "Ramalama (Bang Bang)", a group dance featured on Season 2 of So You Think You Can Dance.[12] Robson was nominated in the same category in 2008 for Jaimie Goodwin and Hokuto "Hok" Konishi's jazz dance, set to "Chairman's Waltz" from Memoirs of a Geisha.[13]

Composer

Robson and N'Sync's Justin Timberlake partnered in 2001, co-writing the hit singles "Pop", "Gone", and "See Right Through You" on 'N Sync's final album Celebrity. Robson had initially written "Celebrity" for his own album, but was persuaded to let Timberlake record it instead. They also co-wrote Britney Spears' "What It's Like To Be Me" which she performed as a duet with then-boyfriend Timberlake on the album Britney. The song's copyright is held jointly by Robson and Timberlake's respective companies WaJeRo Sound and Tennman Tunes.

Robson co-wrote the song "Movin' On" for the Backstreet Boys album, Never Gone, with Backstreet member Howie Dorough. The song was released as a bonus track.

Robson has also written songs for the singing groups Dream and Youngstown.citation needed He also remixed two of Mandy Moore's songs from her debut album for her second album, I Wanna Be With You.

Robson recently wrote a new song, "Welcome to Me", with Britney Spears.citation needed

Acting

In 1999, he appeared in a series of Jack in the Box commercials as "TJ", one of the Meaty Cheesy Boys, a spoof of boy bands of the late 1990s. Robson appeared as himself in the 2004 urban dance film You Got Served, which was co-choreographed by Shane Sparks, and won awards for "Best Dance Sequence."citation needed

Personal life

Robson received his GED at age fifteen.[3]

In July 2002, Robson's father, Dennis Robson, passed away after a long illness.[3]

In 2003, Michael Jackson was arrested on charges of child molestation. Starting from age seven, Robson was invited several times to Jackson's Neverland Ranch, where several boys, including Robson and child actor Macaulay Culkin, would all sleep together in Jackson's bed. A member of Jackson's staff testified that she had seen Jackson behaving inappropriately towards Robson, such as taking showers together.[14] In November 2003, Robson publicly denied any wrongdoing on Jackson's part,[15] and he, along with his mother and sister,[1] testified in Jackson's defense at the People v. Jackson trial in 2005.[16] Jackson was eventually acquitted. According to Australian newspaper The Age, Robson and Jackson remain friends.[1] In a 2003 interview, Robson said of Jackson, "His heart is so genuine. He has no concept of a normal life."[3]

On August 13, 2005, Robson married fashion designer Amanda Rodriguez in Hawaii. Jackson was among those invited to the wedding.[1]

Career credits

Videography

  • Michael Jackson's "Black or White" (1991) Music video — dancer (uncredited)
  • Michael Jackson's Dangerous: The Short Films (1993) (V) — dancer ("Jam"/"Black or White")
  • Britney Spears's "Born To Make You Happy" (1999) — choreographer
  • Britney Spears's "I'm A Slave 4 U" (2001) — choreographer
  • NSync's "Pop" (2001) — choreographer & dancer

Filmography

  • EDtv (1999) — teenage boy
  • Kazaam (1996) — Elito
  • You Got Served (2004) - Himself
  • I? (2005) — writer, director

Television

  • Pacific Blue, "Users" (1998) — Brandon Jeter
  • Picket Fences, "Elective Conduct" (1994) — T.J.
  • Nothing Sacred, "House of Rage" (1997) — Garner Cole
  • Full House, "Come Fly with Me" (1992) — Terry, traveling choir member

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Aussies bolster Jackson's defence case", The Age (June 14, 2005). Retrieved on 2007-07-02. 
  2. ^ Compilation by Axiom Information Resources (2006). Celebrity Birthday Directory. Axiom Information Resources, p. 73 ISBN 0943213819
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Chiu, Alexis (September 22, 2003). "Flash Dancer". People. 60 (12):173-174
  4. ^ a b c d e Roth, Kristin (September 14, 2000), "Wade Robson" Rolling Stone (849):120
  5. ^ Margot Dougherty (August 2004). "Dancer-Choreographer-Remixer-Director Kevin Tancharoen Is Still Evolving", Los Angeles Magazine. 
  6. ^ Isabel C. Gonzalez (February 9, 2004). "Inspired by hip-hop traditions, dance battles are catching on at nightclubs", TIME magazine. 
  7. ^ Linnett, Richard; Halliday, Jean; Stanley, T.L. (October 6, 2003), "Adages". Advertising Age. 74 (40):44
  8. ^ Newman, Melinda (January 31, 2004), "The Darkness Creeps Into The Limelight". Billboard. 116 (5):16
  9. ^ Johnson, Tamara (July 2004), "Street To Studio". By: , Dance Magazine. 78 (7):37
  10. ^ No byline (November 2006), "PULSING with WADE ROBSON". Dance Magazine. 80 (11):16
  11. ^ So You Think You Can Dance, June 27, 2007]]
  12. ^ "Primetime Awards" Emmys.tv. Retrieved August 31, 2007
  13. ^ 60th Annual Emmy Nominations cdn.emmys.tv. Retrieved July 17, 2008
  14. ^ Dimond, Diane (2005). Be Careful Who You Love: Inside the Michael Jackson Case. Simon and Schuster, p. 256 ISBN 1-4165-2449-5.
  15. ^ CourtTV article http://www.courttv.com/trials/jackson/050505_ctv.html
  16. ^ Martin Kasindorf (May 6, 2005). "Former houseguests take stand in Jackson's defense", USA Today, pp. 6a. 

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