# @dancespiritmagazine on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DXo6Wz0m9mO
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/64711576-dancespiritmagazine-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/d6f8643906.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-04-27T14:56:18.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dance Spirit Magazine (@dancespiritmagazine) — https://gondola.cc/dancespiritmagazine

## Caption

🏀 “High School Musical” premiered on the Disney Channel 20 years ago, on January 20, 2006. To celebrate, we’ve spoken with some of the films’ key dance figures to examine the series’ impact on dance and pop culture at large. Our final installment is a Q&A with kennyortegablog, who directed the movies and collaborated with co-choreographers bonbonstory and chuckyklapow on the Wildcats’ enduring dances.

Give it a read at the link in our bio. 💖

All photos by Fred Hayes, courtesy disney.
📸: From left: Chucky Klapow, Kenny Ortega, and zacefron on the set of “High School Musical.”
📸: Ortega filming “HSM.”
📸: From left: Efron and Ortega. 
📸: On set with the “HSM” Wildcats basketball team. 
📝: kirouette 

#highschoolmusical #kennyortega #hsm 

Descriptions:
1) In a high school basketball gym, Kenny Ortega stands with his arms gently posed at either side. He looks slightly down and speaks to three dancers, clad in red and white basketball uniforms, who stand or crouch behind him. Text: Celebrating 20 Years of “High School Musical”: Kenny Ortega Looks Back
2) A close-up shot of Zac Efron and Kenny Ortega posing for a photo, with Ortega wrapping one arm around Efron’s shoulders. Text: “I used to be a Troy Bolton in a way. I was devoted to both athletics and the arts. I had coaches telling me, ‘You can’t do both. You’ve got to choose.’ ” —Kenny Ortega
3) Two lines of dancers (dressed as basketball players) and choreographers stand in a high school gym. The first line kneels on one knee with a basketball propped on the other. Text: “HSM enabled the young people who watched it to have the courage to believe in themselves and to trust their feelings. And to go for it. To me, there’s no greater trophy, no treasure more meaningful, than that.” —Kenny Ortega
4) Kenny Ortega stands on a ladder in a high school gym, next to a basketball hoop, and speaks into a microphone. Text: Read the full interview at the link in our bio!

## Stats

- **Views:** 0
- **Likes:** 17,367
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 101

## Tags

kennyortega, hsm, highschoolmusical

---
Copyright (c) Gondola