Charles Klapow
Dancer
Award-winning choreographer of Disney's 'High School Musical' who also danced to Michael Jackson, Paula Abdul, and others.
He began dancing at age 12, at an all-star concert for the Pediatric Aids Foundation, and from there got a dancing part in the film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.
By 2000, he was choreographing the Swedish pop group A*Teens, which led to choreographing jobs with the Los Angeles Sparks in the WNBA and Disney's High School Musical.
His mother was Filipino and his father Russian-American.
He was a guest judge on the Australian TV show Young Talent Time, with singer Tina Arena.