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Breakin' out: choreographer Shane Sparks goes from battling to Broadway.

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"I am the one. They don't know yet, but I'm going to change the world." Make no mistake about it. Shane Sparks is on a mission. The' hip hop choreographer who has helped thrust this genre of dance into the mainstream spotlight is on a roll. And his whirlwind of success has happened in only five years.

A compact powerhouse, Sparks can talk the talk and dance the dance. When a beat of music is in the air he starts to feel it out, popping and locking to hip hop old and new. And though he has a style all his own, he can become a chameleon, shakin' it in Beyonce's style to Single Ladies on set of a photo shoot, bringin' it hard with choreography to Flo Rida's Elevator, or taking us back a few decades with old school hip hop to Bell Biv DeVoe's Poison.

At 34, Sparks has worked on music videos, commercials, films, TV shows, and is now about to add Broadway to his credits. He came to the East Coast in November to choreograph the musical Dreamgirls and attend the open auditions at the Apollo Theater in Harlem (where the story itself takes place and where the revamped Broadway version plans to open...

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