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Wade Jeremy William Robson (born 17 September 1982) is an Australian dancer, director, producer, songwriter, and award-winning choreographer. He began performing as a dancer at the age of five. He has directed music videos and world tours for numerous music artists such as 'N Sync and Britney Spears. Robson found success not only as a choreographer and tour director but also as the host and executive producer for The Wade Robson Project which aired on MTV in 2003. In 2007, he joined the FOX television dance series, So You Think You Can Dance as both a judge and choreographer.

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."

At the age of 11 Robson had an agent. Along with friend DeWayne Turrentine, he formed the hip hop duo Quo and by the end of the year released an album on Michael Jackson's MJJ Music label through Epic/SME Records. The following year, he was teaching dance classes in Hollywood. He formed a troupe of dancing children which performed internationally. 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. 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.

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 'Nsync'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 Fatone sustained at an 'N Sync concert the night before the video shoot. That same year, he directed Spears' Dream Within a Dream Tour.

Adult career

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

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.

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."

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 dancers the chance to train under top choreographers.

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".

On 8 September 2007, Robson won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography for "Ramalama (Bang Bang)" performed on (Season 2) of So You Think You Can Dance.

Robson won again in the same category in (Season 3) (2008) for "Humming Bird and the Flower", a jazz dance routine performed by Jaimie Goodwin and Hokuto "Hok" Konishi', set to "Chairman's Waltz" from Memoirs of a Geisha soundtrack., 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."

Robson choreographed the dance routines in Criss Angel Believe, a Cirque du Soleil show that premiered in Las Vegas in 2008.

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 'N Sync record it instead. They also co-wrote Britney Spears' "What It's Like To Be Me" which Timberlake sang back up vocals on. 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. He also remixed two of Mandy Moore's songs from her album I Wanna Be With You.

Robson appeared in the 2010 documentary Move, directed by Kurt E. Soderling and Melinda Songer. Mia Michaels, Paula Abdul, Tyce Diorio and Nigel Lythgoe will also appear in the film. Robson will be lending his choreographing talents to the animated feature film "Happy Feet 2" (in 3D) due out this November. He was originally set to direct the fourth installment of the uber popular dance feature, "Step Up 4ever", (for release in 2012), but later dropped out of the project for personal reasons (he was replaced by Scott Speer)

Robson is currently the creative director for Demi Lovato.

Routines for So You Think You Can Dance

Season	Week	Dancers	Dance style	Music	Routine title	Notes
2	6	Top 10	Group routine	"Ramalama (Bang Bang)""Róisín Murphy	Ramalama	Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography 2007
	8	Heidi Groskreutz Travis Wall	Afro-Pop	"W'Happy Mama""Zap Mama	W'Happy Mama
	9	Top 4	Group routine	"SexyBack""Justin Timberlake	SexyBack
3	1	Sara Von Gillern Jesús Solorio	Pop-Jazz	"Cabaret Hoover" from Les Triplettes de Belleville	Vagabond Cabaret	Chosen as Tony Meredith's favourite routine of the season
	1	Top 20	Group routine	"Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See""Busta Rhymes	Busta Mod
	3	Jaimie Goodwin Hokuto "Hok" Konishi	Jazz	"The Chairman's Waltz" from Memoirs of a Geisha	The Hummingbird and the Flower	Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography 2008 Chosen as Nigel Lythgoe's favourite routine of the season
	4	Lauren Gottlieb Neil Haskell	Jazz	"Night of the Dancing Flame""Róisín Murphy	Good VS Evil
	6	Top 10	Individual solos	"Waiting on the World to Change""John Mayer	Peace
	8	Top 6	Group routine	"2:19""Tom Waits	Swamp
	9	Sabra Johnson Lacey Schwimmer	Jazz	"Koyal (Songbird)""Nitin Sawhney	Foxes
4	1	Top 20	Group routine	"Cobrastyle""Robyn	Cobrastyle
	9	Katee Shean Joshua Allen	Lyrical Jazz	"Slow Dancing in a Burning Room""John Mayer	Slow Dancing in a Burning Room
	9	Cirque du Soleil	Guest performance	"Homage to the Rabbits""Éric Serra	Homage to the Rabbits
5	1	Ashley Valerio K?pono Aweau	Jazz	"Felt Mountain""Goldfrapp	Crash Test Dummies
	5	Janette Manrara Brandon Bryant	Jazz	"Ruby Blue""Róisín Murphy	Ruby Blue
	6	Top 10	Jazz	"So Much Betta""Janet Jackson	So Much Betta
	9	Top 4	Pop-jazz	"Boys Boys Boys""Lady Gaga	Boys Boys Boys
6	1	Top 20	Jazz	"Comanche""The Revels	Comanche
	2	Pauline Mata Peter Sabasino	Jazz	"Little Green Bag""George Baker Selection	Little Green Bag
	4	Top 14	Group Routine	"Aha!""Imogen Heap	Aha!
7	1	Top 11 + All Stars	Group Routine	" Fame "" David Bowie	Fame

Personal life

Robson received his GED at age fifteen.

In July 2002, Robson's father, Dennis Robson, died after a long illness.

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. In November 2003, Robson publicly denied any wrongdoing on Jackson's part and he, along with his mother and sister, testified in Jackson's defense at the People v. Jackson trial in 2005. Jackson was eventually acquitted. In a 2003 interview, Robson said of Jackson "His heart is so genuine. He has no concept of a normal life." Robson and Jackson remained friends until Jackson's death in June 2009.

In August 2005, Robson married fashion designer, Amanda Rodriguez, in her native Maui, Hawaii. Since then, the couple have united their creative talents and collaborated on numerous stage, television, and film projects. In November 2010, the couple welcomed their first child, son Koa. They live in Los Angeles.

Career credits

Discography

1994: Quo
2006: Wade Robson's Project: Dance Beats Vol. 1

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
A*Teens' Upside Down, choreographer (2000/2001)
Britney Spears's "Oops... I Did It Again" (2000) " choreographer
Britney Spears's "I'm A Slave 4 U" (2001) " choreographer
Britney Spears's "Overprotected" (Worldwide Version) (2001) " choreographer
NSync's "Pop" (2001) " choreographer & dancer

Filmography

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

Television

Full House, "Come Fly with Me" (1992) " Terry, traveling choir member
Picket Fences, "Elective Conduct" (1994) " T.J.
Nothing Sacred, "House of Rage" (1997) " Garner Cole
Pacific Blue, "Users" (1998) " Brandon Jeter
So You Think You Can Dance, U.S. TV series (2006-?) " Himself

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