Kenny Ortega's strength as a helmer doesn't lie in shooting panoramic vistas or creating thrilling action sequences replete with special effects. Instead, he focuses on old-fashioned directorial ...

Descendants costars Dove Cameron and Booboo Stewart were also there to support Kenny Ortega Cameron Boyce‘s legacy lived on during Descendants director Kenny Ortega’s Walk of Fame ceremony on ...

Kenny Ortega is a name you’ve probably seen before, credited as a director or choreographer on some of your favorite films or for his long-standing association with Disney. But in case it’s ...

High School Musical director Kenny Ortega, 75, told PEOPLE that he had a "premonition" about the film's cast while shooting the movie's big final number, “We're All in This Together” ...

Kenny Ortega is a legend in the industry of dance as an Emmy award-winning director and choreographer. Tonight he will appear on Dancing With the Stars as part of the judging panel.

Kenny Ortega, who helmed the High School Musical movies, the original Hocus Pocus, The Descendants and the Netflix cult favorite, Julie and the Phantoms (which we thought might get a second season ...

Bio: Kenny Ortega (born Kenneth John Ortega on April 18, 1950 in Palo Alto, California) is an American director and choreographer. After graduating from Sequoia High School in Redwood City, Kenny l… ...

The hoopla surrounding the “High School Musical” phenomenon has focused on the hard-working onscreen performers, often overlooking the talents of the series’ director, Kenny Ortega, in the ...

While making the 2006 movie "High School Musical," director Kenny Ortega didn't think Disney would allow for the character Ryan to be openly gay.

Director Kenny Ortega broke down crying Wednesday as he testified about Michael Jackson's shivering and rambling state less than a week before his death. Ortega choked back tears, wiped his eyes ...

Kenny Ortega: The movie in my head was the movie that would help fans to understand what Michael Jackson was trying to accomplish with This Is It (concerts). And it was really difficult.

Years later, Ortega not only met his idol, but actually got to direct him in the 1980 movie Xanadu. It flopped and was trashed by the critics, but you'd never know it to hear Ortega talk about it.