Kelley Abbey

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Kelley Abbey is a professional dancer,choreographer, and dance director in Sydney. Kelley was a choreographer and a special guest on "So You Think You Can Dance" in 2008. In the picture, I see a great hero; a dancer, choreographer. She has influenced me and many other people. Dance is a big part of her life and is such a great sport.

Kelley has just finished choreographing, consulting, and playing a new role in a new Australian feature film called "How To Change in 9 Weeks", starring Sam Neil, Guy Pearce and Miranda Otto. Currently, she is embarking on the beginnings of "Happy Feet Two" and is about to start work on the Ten Network's new Australians series of "So You Think You Can Dance". She was also the choreographer of the movie "The Main Event" in 1998.

When Kelley choreographs she likes to draw on all different styles and fuse them together. Everything from Jazz, Ballet, and Hip Hop... the list goes on. Kelley looks up to Bob Fosse. She said he was an incredible dancer and grew to be an amazing choreographer, who had such a distinctive original pioneering style that he became a director/choreographer on stage and screen. He is one of the select few who broke Hollywood as well as Broadway, and his work is never dated. Chicago still runs today all over the world. Artists like Michael Jackson developed their signature stance sitting in one hip with the opposite foot poised from a signature Fosse pose. He has influenced and inspired many...

Brave, fun, great, amazing, special, courageous are the words that describe my hero Kelley Abbey.