Dance Academy: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

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...

Series details

• Title: Dance Academy
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Music, Romance
• Premiere date: 2010-05-31
• Final broadcast date listed: 2013-09-30
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: ABC Entertains
• Network country: Australia
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 1856

Cast and credited roles

• Xenia Goodwin — Tara Webster
• Alicia Banit — Katrina Karamakov
• Dena Kaplan — Abigail Armstrong
• Jordan Rodrigues — Christian Reed
• Tara Morice — Lucinda Raine
• Thomas Lacey — Benjamin Tickle
• Issi Durant — Grace Whitney
• Tim Pocock — Ethan Karamakov
• Tom Green — Sammy Lieberman

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2010-05-31; final listed air date 2010-07-05; episode order: 26.
• Season 2: premiered 2012-03-12; final listed air date 2012-04-24; episode order: 26.
• Season 3: premiered 2013-07-08; final listed air date 2013-09-30; episode order: 13.

Source and licence

Adapted from Dance Academy on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.