Allen has leveraged her star power to attract top master choreographers to offer free dance lessons, including JaQuel Knight, Laurieann Gibson, Lyrik Cruz, Phil Wright, and DADA master faculty ...

And on June 22, Allen will host Dancing in the Light: Healing with the Arts, a bimonthly event that features free dance lessons for those impacted by the wildfires.

Allen, a choreographer, director, producer and actor — she does those last three on “Grey’s Anatomy” — was in her studio at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy in Los Angeles.

Born in 1950 in Houston, Debbie Allen studied Classical Literature, but her passion was dance. She turned it into a career and became the iconic dance teacher on 'Fame.' However, her trajectory didn't ...

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When Debbie Allen opened the doors to her dance academy in 2000 inside of a revamped Marie Callender's restaurant in Culver City, there was no other place in town like it that catered to ...