She scooped the pool recently at the Showcase National Dance competition held at Jupiters Casino on the Gold Coast and then later impressed at the Hollywood Bound National Dance Championships held at Flemington Racecourse Event Centre in Melbourne.

Her efforts are even more impressive because she has Tourette's disorder but she lets nothing stand in her way.

The 12-year-old Tapitallee resident is a natural born dancer, reflected in these results.

At the showcase she was first and the national champion in 12 years hip hop and student choreography, second in 12 years contemporary and lyrical and third in 12 years broadway jazz and normal jazz.

She was the star of the show at the Hollywood Bound championships and was first and national champion in contemporary pre-teen (12 to 15 years), second in pre-teen hip hop, second in pre-teen broadway jazz, third in pre-teen lyrical and third in pre-teen normal jazz.

Anabelle also placed fifth overall in top 10 rankings of highest marks for an individual performance in the pre-teen section at the Hollywood Bound event - not bad for a dancer in her first year of competition.

The promising young dancer has only had two years of lessons

Anabelle does get nervous before she has to dance, but she performs like a true professional.

“I get on stage and it’s like there is nobody there and a light is shining on me,” she said

The star dancer loves the freedom dancing give her.

Anabelle did a lot of running with the Nowra Athletics Club before focusing on dancing.

Once she even upstaged the senior runners to win the Nowra Show’s handicap race.

“I just heard the crowd cheering for me and ran fast,” she said

“I used to dance around the Willandra track when I got bored of running.”

The tiny dancer is a modest person in general.

“I am proud of myself but I still think there is room for improvement,” she said.

“I am not normally proud of myself but this time I was and I will try to do better.”

Anabelle’s Tourettes is noticeable when she gets anxious but her mother Julianne said the champion dancer performs like a seasoned professional.

“She is cool, calm and collected and was the smallest by far on the stage,” Mrs Dallas said

“She was up against older and more experienced dancers.”

Anabelle receives private tuition from up and coming choreographer Cassidy Richardson from Kiama, who also has Tourettes.