Debbie Allen has a legion of fans from her illustrious career as dancer, choreographer, and film and TV director. But her main passion is changing lives through dance.

Penelope Mullen, Head of the Dance Department at the Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts (ACPA), chats to Nina Levy ahead of her next season, Blaque Bordello.

Born in Sydney, Ashley studied at Wendy Gibbs School of Ballet, learning classical, jazz, contemporary and tap, before moving to Melbourne at age 13 to finish her training at The Australian Ballet School.

Queensland Ballet principals Hao Bin and Meng Ningning had just given their final performance for 2011 of Swan Lake when I caught up with them in the Green Room at Queensland Performing Arts Centre.

Chengwu Guo was just a child when he left his home to study dance. Now he is an audience favourite in Australia.

Four-year-old Tess Sturmann was tossing up between being a dolphin trainer, kindy teacher and ballerina as a career – the latter won out, and now she is an “aspirant” with Dutch National Ballet (Het Nationale Ballet).

Sally Clark catches up with a man with a passion for bringing out the best in his students.

Anouk van Dijk's memory of the first "real" dancer she saw still moves her tears. The newly appointed artistic director of Chunky Move is now a very cosmopolitan woman in her mid-40s whose career has spanned many countries.

Melbourne dance-theatre company KAGE is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. Limelight catches up with co-creative directors.

Stijn Cellis has been invited to create a new work for Dancenorth in Townsville.

Dancers without borders. New Zealander Tasman Davids is currently studying in Russia.

Anton has choreographed for numerous dance companies, films and music videos, and commercial clients ranging from Target to Guy Sebastian.

The artistic director of the West Australian Ballet, Ivan Cavallari, discusses his legacy with Karen van Ulzen.

Meet some Australian dancers who have found their niche in other countries. The second in our series of Australians overseas.

Gideon Obarzanek, the outgoing artistic director of Chunky Move.

Mark Byrne was 24 years old, and rehearsing for the Victorian State Opera's production of 'West Side Story' in 1994, when he sustained a serious injury to his back.