Cariba Heine | Dance Academy

• Genre: Teen drama
• Created by: Samantha Strauss, Joanna Werner
• Starring: Xenia Goodwin, Alicia Banit, Dena Kaplan, Thom Green, Jordan Rodrigues, Tim Pocock,Isabel Durant, Thomas Lacey, Keiynan Lonsdale, Tara Morice
• Opening theme: "My Chance" by The White Rhinos
• Composer: Bryony Marks
• No. of series: 3
• No. of episodes: 65
• Executive producers: Bernadette O'Mahony, Joanna Werner
• Producer: Joanna Werner
• Cinematography: Martin McGrath
• Running time: 24–25 minutes
• Production companies: Werner Film Productions, ZDF Enterprises, ACTF
• Network: ABC1 / ABC3
• Release: 31 May 2010 – 30 September 2013

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 (Thom Green), Abigail Armstrong (Dena Kaplan) and Christian Reed (Jordan Rodrigues), as well as eventually getting to know her teacher Ms. Raine (Tara Morice).

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