Dance Academy is narrated mainly from the perspective of Tara Webster (Xenia Goodwin), a newly accepted first year student at the National Academy of Dance in Sydney, which also doubles as a Year 10-12 high school for the dancers. Throughout the series, she learns to better her ballet technique, as well as learn contemporary ballet and hip-hop dance; while creating lifelong friendships and experiencing many hardships. In the first series, Tara soon befriends fellow students Kat (Alicia Banit) and Ethan Karamakov (Tim Pocock), Sammy Lieberman (Tom Green), Abigail Armstrong (Dena Kaplan) and Christian Reed (Jordan Rodrigues), as well as eventually getting to know her teacher Ms. Raine (Tara Morice). Read more on Wikipedia.
MPAA Rating: | NR |
Genre: | Drama |
Country: | Australia, Germany |
Produced By: | Joanna Werner, Nicole Keeb, Bernadette O'Mahony, Vicki O'Neill, Arne Lohmann, Louise Smith |
Directed By: | Jeffrey Walker |
Written By: | Samantha Strauss |
Cast: | Nicholas Brown, Alicia Banit, Alex Acosta, Ines English, Nic Westaway, Jordan Rodrigues, Mitchell Butel, David E. Woodley, Sheree Zellner, Keiynan Lonsdale, Demitri Fields, Chris Bartlett, Fonzie Gomez, Miranda Otto, Dena Kaplan, Tara Morice, Tara Jade Borg, Thomas Lacey, Xenia Goodwin |
In Theaters: | Mar 02, 2018 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 41 minutes |
Production: | Australian Children's Television Foundation, Werner Film Productions, ZDF Enterprises |