Welcome to Retro Rewind, the TGJ original feature carved out to celebrate TV and Film’s entertaining past. Today, we honour the groundbreaking dance force that is Wade Robson, the star of the hit TV series ‘The Wade Robson Project.’
Mentored by the late Michael Jackson as a child, Robson rose to become one of Pop’s most sought-after choreographers after building moves for ‘NSync (‘Pop’) and Britney Spears (‘Slave 4 U.‘)
How the Australian creative was thanked for his services to Pop? ‘The Wade Robson Project’, an MTV show in which up and coming dancers would compete for a $100,000 cash prize and the chance to follow in his acclaimed footsteps.
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Robson’s Britney-backed reign also saw him pen hits for she and the aforementioned ‘NSync during the peak of their early noughties Teen Pop glory.
Which numbers?
Spears’ ‘What It’s Like To Be Me’ and Justin and the gang’s smash hit cut ‘Gone.’
Wade won an Emmy in 2007 for a piece he choreographed for FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance entitled Ramalama. Wade choreographed and starred in a special performance for Dancing with the Stars in 2007, which turned out to be one of the season’s highest rated episodes. Wade and his wife Amanda are currently developed an independent dance feature film, which he directed and choreographed. Wade choreographed Chris Angel’s Cirque du Soleil show, which opened at the Las Vegas Luxor in 2008. Wade is excited about his continual personal and creative growth and is passionate about bringing his knowledge of music, choreography, storytelling, direction and life perspective to stage, commercial, music video and film.
As creativity finds itself stifled in today’s musical climate, we can only hope that Wade, Brian Friedman and creatives like them force their way back into the forefront to guide Pop’s current class.
For, one needn’t look any further at performances delivered by the likes of Selena Gomez to understand why Wade-level ideas can make the world of difference to an artist’s career.