Dance Academy
Fifteen-year-old Tara Webster's dream of dancing comes true when she gets into a top dance academy. She soon realizes dancing is only half the battle.
Cast:Xenia Goodwin , Alicia Banit , Dena Kaplan , Jordan Rodrigues , Tara Morice , Thom Green , Tim Pocock , Isabel Durant , Thomas Lacey , Kip Gamblin , Keiynan Lonsdale , Matt Cranleigh , Brooke Harman , Josef Brown , Robert Alexander , Lauren Elton , Anne Looby , Shayni Notelovitz
S1.E1 ∙ Learning to Fly
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 than she ever anticipated.
S1.E2 ∙ Week Zero
Tara arrives at the Academy and finds out that she is considered the worst dancer there. For Tara, making friends and earning the respect of her teachers is a challenge. She also deals with being homesick.
S1.E3 ∙ Behind Barres
Tara has a crush on Ethan which threatens Tara's friendship with Kat. To determine which is more important, with Sammy's help, Tara makes a list of pros and cons about Ethan.
S1.E4 ∙ Minefield
For a class assignment, Sammy and Abigail have to tie themselves together for 24 hours which they later discover only had to be "2-4 hours".
S1.E5 ∙ Real Men Don't Dance
Sammy is forced to choose between dance and his father when compulsory Saturday ballet classes clash with his Synagogue services; and Christian struggles to accept the rules of the Academy.
S1.E6 ∙ Perfection
The National Ballet comes to town and Tara is stunned to learn Kat's mother is Natasha Willis - a world-acclaimed ballerina and Tara's greatest idol.
S1.E7 ∙ Crush Test Dummies
Ethan requires a dancer for his hip-hop showcase and asks Christian on the basis of the favour he owes him; Christian agrees but opposes Ethan's choreography. Tara educates Kat in every aspect of the art form of crushes.
S1.E8 ∙ Growing Pains
Tara is tired of being the youngest and dislikes that Ethan thinks of her as just a little kid.
S1.E9 ∙ Heartbeat
Mocking her friends' obsession with teen pop star Myles Kelly, Kat creates a video of her dancing to one of his songs and then posts it on the internet.
S1.E10 ∙ Through the Looking Glass
Christian's friend Aaron reveals the truth about the robbery they both committed. Abigail's control issues take control over her and she is seen stealing from a store.
S1.E11 ∙ One Perfect Day
Tara is ecstatic when Ethan asks her to dance in his assessment piece. Kat, Sammy, Abigail and her little sister Paige go to an amusement park, however, Abigail fails to connect with Paige, who would rather be with Kat and Sammy.
S1.E12 ∙ Pressure
Tara tries to ignore her recent 'almost-pash' with Ethan so she can focus on her exams; however it's not as easy as she'd hoped.
S1.E13 ∙ Family
It's Open Week at the Academy. Tara is thrilled to see her mum and dad again but when they arrive she is embarrassed that they're not as sophisticated as everyone else's parents.
S1.E14 ∙ Turning Pointes
Tara returns from the school holidays on top of the world - she has great friends, a gorgeous boyfriend, the first year scholarship, and is finally allowed to dance en pointe.
S1.E15 ∙ My Life en Pointe
Petra photographs Tara and Christian kissing, creating tension between them unbeknownst to Ethan.
S1.E16 ∙ Free Falling
Kat is upset when her parents ignore her 16th birthday and throws herself a huge party at their harbour front home in revenge.
S1.E17 ∙ A Midsummer's Night's Dream
It is school camp and everyone is dreading the trip away, especially Tara who has been made an outcast following the party.
S1.E18 ∙ Betty Bunheads
German exchange student Petra Hoffman is thrilled when she is invited to stay at the Academy. However, when the Berlin Ballet Company offers her a contract, she has a difficult choice to make
S1.E19 ∙ Fairest and Best
The Institute of Sport has sent football players to the Academy for one week of training to improve their elevation, coordination and flexibility.
S1.E20 ∙ Ballet Fever
When the Board decides to cut hip hop and jazz from the curriculum Kat goes on the warpath, blaming her mother for this change. T
S1.E21 ∙ Fear of Missing Out
It's a month since Tara's injury and her plaster is due to come off, but Tara seems more focused on her new boyfriend, Christian than she is in attending her doctor's appointment.
S1.E22 ∙ Flight or Fight Response
Christian's hearing for the robbery he and Aaron committed is coming up, however, Aaron has disappeared which puts a hole in Christian's defence.
S1.E23 ∙ Best Friends Forever
Today, Christian faces his punishment for the robbery. But when Aaron returns, Christian's conscience gets the better of him and he changes his story to protect his friend.
S1.E24 ∙ Heatwave
In the weeks since the court hearing, Sammy and Christian have been inseparable. In fact, they've made a pact of brotherhood - from now on, they will forget all about girls.
S1.E25 ∙ The Deep End
The Nutcracker rehearsals begin and Tara, cast as Clara, finds that being the star is more trouble than she expected. Sammy faces the fact that his feelings for Christian have shifted.
S1.E26 ∙ Learning to Fly: Part 2
The end-of-year production has arrived and Tara is rehearsing her solo in Act 2 of The Nutcracker. Director Sebastian Karamakov is not happy with her performance and threatens to put Abigail in her place.
