Kenny Ortega
- Birthplace: Palo Alto, California, USA
- Birthday: April 18, 1950
An Emmy Award winner, Kenny Ortega in the 1990s and 2000s made himself the most celebrated choreographer and helmsman of filmed and live musical stage shows in America, choreographing some of most famous dance scenes in film, producing live sports-ceremony extravaganzas and stewarding one of most phenomenal musical drama franchises in history. Ortega arrived on the American film scene portentously working with Gene Kelly on his final feature film, the camp classic “Xanadu” (1980), and went on to create the smoldering dance scenes in “Dirt…more