![]() ![]() “She does so much work that some job she thinks is insignificant can change someone’s life.”ĭespite all her high-profile Hollywood gigs-which currently include appearing in and executive-producing “Grey’s Anatomy” and acting on “S.W.A.T.”-Allen still spends significant time in the studio, teaching and mentoring dancers directly.Ī video of her coaching young dancers at DADA last year went viral. Smith notes that Allen’s work has had such a broad reach, he isn’t sure that Allen can even fathom her impact on audiences. “She is the quintessential renaissance woman,” says tap star Jason Samuels Smith, who founded the tap program at her Debbie Allen Dance Academy. But she’s paid her dues, not only as a dancer and choreographer, but as an actress, director, producer, cultural ambassador, educator and NAACP Image, Emmy and Golden Globe award winner. In the four decades since Fame hit the big screen, Debbie Allen, now 70, has become an icon. And right here is where you start paying-in sweat.”Īllen herself knows a thing or two about fame. You want fame,” she tells students at the fictional NYC High School for the Performing Arts. ![]() There may be no more iconic opening montage in all of dance TV history than Debbie Allen as Lydia Grant on “Fame.” ![]()
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