Bettess, 18, of Timboon, spent three weeks in July and August taking dance classes with some of the most talented dancers in the industry.

"We got to work with the dancers for Michael Jackson and MC Hammer," she said.

"We worked with the choreographers of (singer and dancer) Ciara, Gwen Stefani, Brittney Spears and heaps more," she said.

Bettess also took class with Chuck Maldonado, who choreographed the dance movie Stomp the Yard and met Robert Hoffman who dances in the movie, Step Up 2.

"They have so much passion and drive for what they do and truly inspired me," she said.

Bettess was among of group of 37 young dancers from throughout the world invited to attend the dance workshop run by the Sourcedance company.

She was invited to attend by a Sourcedance choreographer who saw her performance at a dance workshop in Australia.

The Timboon community got right behind her dream to attend the workshop with a "Send Nicki to Hollywood" fund raising campaign.

Another talented young dancer from the south-west invited to the Hollywood workshop was Warrnambool's Emily Trigg, 15, who spent two weeks at the classes with the help of a grant from Warrnambool City Council.

The Hollywood Tour workshop is for dancers seeking to make dance a career, an aspiration both girls share.

Both already have a busy schedule of training and teaching dance in the south-west.

Bettess has her own dance school in Port Campbell and also teaches at Robins School of Dancing in Warrnambool and Timboon.

She said her dance group in Hollywood worked hard to prepare a dance piece that it performed in a show known as Carnival at a Hollywood night club.

"We got our costumes designed by Johnny Goodson who is the costume designer for the Black Eyed Peas and got to watch lots of other dance routines of others that were part of the show."

Bettess, a Year 12 student at Timboon P-12 College, is currently focusing on finishing her secondary studies.

She aims to complete exams next year in a number of dance styles she has studied at dance schools while continuing her Port Campbell dance school and doing further dance studies in Melbourne.