Dance Academy

2010

4.8

171 reviews

TV-G

Rating

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Season 1 episodes (26)

1 Learning to Fly

5/31/10

Country-girl Tara Webster travels to Sydney to audition for the prestigious National Academy of Dance. It's a tumultuous week as she realises her dream of becoming a dancer is going to be a lot more difficult, and humiliating, than she ever anticipated.

2 Week Zero

6/1/10

Tara arrives at the Academy excited about the year ahead but soon discovers that she is the worst dancer in the class. As Tara struggles to fit in, she learns the hard way to respect her teachers, who her true friends are, and to watch her back around her.

3 Behind Barres

6/2/10

When Tara's crush on Ethan threatens to derail her friendship with Kat, Sammy gets her to write a pros and cons list to clear her head. As the roommate war escalates, Abigail wins a decisive victory - emailing Tara's list to the whole school.

4 Minefield

6/3/10

The first years are given trust exercises to help forge connections with their pas de deux partners. Tara is frustrated when Christian refuses to participate, however they connect unexpectedly when Tara follows him to the beach and Christian rescues her.

5 Real Men Don't Dance

6/4/10

Sammy is forced to choose between dance and his father when compulsory Saturday ballet classes clash with his Synagogue services. Christian struggles to accept the rules of the Academy.

6 Perfection

6/7/10

The National Ballet comes to town and Tara is thrilled to learn that Kat's mother is Natasha Willis, the Company's Principal dancer and her childhood idol. Sammy's girlfriend, Mia, also arrives forcing Sammy to evaluate his growing feelings for Abigail.

7 Crush Test Dummies

6/8/10

Christian reluctantly agrees to dance in Ethan's showcase but can't stand the derivative choreography. In order to show this ballet boy some real hip-hop, Christian takes Ethan home to Maroubra.

8 Growing Pains

6/9/10

Abigail is devastated that her body seems to be developing and defies Miss Raine by wearing a loose top to class. Sammy is forced to buy a dance belt, with Christian as his unlikely shopping buddy.

9 Heartbeat

6/10/10

While Ethan and Christian become more competitive with one another, Kat, Sammy and Tara post a video of Kat dancing to pop star Myles Kelly on the internet and it becomes a viral sensation.

10 Through the Looking Glass

6/11/10

Christian's best mate Aaron comes to stay and reveals the truth about the robbery they committed. Later, Aaron uses Christian as an alibi forcing Christian to lie to the police, and to question whether old friends are necessarily good friends.

11 One Perfect Day

6/14/10

Tara is excited when Ethan asks her to star in his choreography assessment piece, but Ethan only has eyes for his mentor, Dana.

12 Pressure

6/15/10

Pressure is building at the Academy as the students prepare for exams. Tara tries to ignore her recent 'almost-pash' with Ethan in an attempt to stay focused. With her sights set on the first year scholarship, Abigail pushes herself too far.

13 Family

6/16/10

It's Open Week at the Academy and Tara discovers she is embarrassed by her unsophisticated parents, especially around her new boyfriend Ethan. Her mum later reveals that the farm is in serious financial trouble.

14 Turning Points

6/17/10

Tara returns from the holidays excited to have been awarded the first year scholarship. However, this soon turns to disappointment when Kat leaves her standing alone outside a warehouse party the night before their first ballet class.

15 My Life en Pointe

6/18/10

Petra Hoffman arrives at the Academy on exchange from the Berlin Ballet School. Homesick, she adopts a lost dog and attempts to conceal him in the Boarding House.

16 Free Falling

6/21/10

Kat is upset when her parent's ignore her 16th birthday and throws herself a huge party at their harbour front home as revenge. However chaos soon reigns when Tara spies Kat kissing Christian and realizes she can't ignore her own feelings.

17 A Midsummer Night's Dream

6/22/10

It is school camp time and Tara is ostracised by her friends and further humiliated when photos of her and Christian kissing keep appearing everywhere. Tensions culminate in a fight between Kat and Tara.

18 Betty Bunheads

6/23/10

Petra has decided to stay in Australia and enjoy life as an ordinary teenager, however when the Berlin Ballet offers her a contract she has a difficult choice to make.

19 Fairest & Best

6/24/10

The Institute of Sport's Australian Rules Forward Squad has been sent to the Academy for some specialised training and the challenge is soon on, between the dancers and the footballers, to prove which is the toughest sport.

20 Ballet Fever

6/25/10

When the Board decides to cut hip hop and jazz from the curriculum Kat goes on the warpath, blaming her mother for this change. Tara and Christian find themselves together at the beach and their spark is rekindled.

21 FOMO - Fear of Missing out

6/28/10

It's a month since Tara's injury and her plaster is due to come off but Tara seems much more focused on her new boyfriend, Christian, and organising the school formal. Sammy and Abigail decide take their relationship to the next level.

22 Flight or Fight Response

6/29/10

Christian's sentencing hearing has been set and, believing that he's headed for juvenile detention, Christian decides to stop playing by other people's rules and goes back to his old neighbourhood.

23 BFF - Best Friends Forever

6/30/10

Christian is ready for his court date but everything unravels when old loyalties cause him to change his story. Kat is shocked to learn her brother is moving overseas.

24 Heatwave

7/1/10

Sammy and Christian have made a pact of brotherhood - from now on they are an island of man - but Kat wonders whether Sammy might have a man crush on his new best friend. Meanwhile, auditions for The Nutcracker are coming up.

25 The Deep End

7/2/10

Rehearsals for The Nutcracker are underway. Tara is playing the role of Clara and quickly discovers that being the star is not all its cracked up to be as Abigail's claws re-emerge.

26 Learning to Fly, Part 2

7/5/10

The end of year performance of the Nutcracker at the Opera House has finally arrived and Tara continues to perform her role so badly that it seems Abigail will be re-cast in her place.

About this show

Fifteen-year-old Tara Webster has grown up on a farm in country Australia and has dreamt of being a dancer ever since she was a little girl. When she makes it into the National Academy of Dance - the best school in the country - she is sure her life is about to be spectacular. What Tara doesn't realise is how far behind she is in her training, and that there's a whole lot more to surviving the Academy than just dancing...

Ratings and reviews

4.8

171 reviews

Karla Alfaro

June 17, 2019

Dance Academy is one of the best shows it would get so intense because wether she would choose Christian or would she choose Ethan that series is the best i am like seriously rewatching everything on Netflix saddly Netflix only has season 1 and the Movie but i bought season 2 so yeah i really recommend this to everyone its the best THEY NEED TO MAKE MORE SEASONS TO DANCE ACADEMY plz make more season's

Sammy Hammond

June 17, 2016

I love this show I've just now started watching it and it's amazing I mean I love the whole cast Tara Christian Kat Petra and Sammy and Abigail the whole crew,but they really should have not I repeat NOT HAVE ENDED IT IM SERIOUS THREE SEASONS WHAT THE HECK THAT'S A SHORT SEASON TBH!!!!

10 people found this review helpful

Debra Sorrell

April 7, 2017

I watch this show a millon times and i dont get bord when i first watched it i fell in love with all the characters especially Christian. Or his real name Jordan

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