Dance Academy
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| Genre | Children / teen serial drama |
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| Opening theme | "My Chance" by The White Rhinos |
| Composer(s) | Bryony Marks |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 65 (list of episodes) |
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| Producer(s) | Joanna Werner |
| Cinematography | Martin McGrath |
| Camera setup | Multiple-camera setup |
| Running time | 24–25 minutes |
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| Picture format | HDTV |
| Original release | 31 May 2010 – 30 September 2013 |
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Dance Academy is an Australian teen-oriented television drama produced by Werner Film Productions in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and ZDF. Series one premiered on 31 May 2010, and series two began airing on 12 March 2012. Series three premiered on ABC3 on 8 July 2013 in Australia.
A film sequel to the television series, Dance Academy: The Comeback, is in development as of April 2015[update] after receiving funding from Screen Australia.
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).
Series two saw Tara return to the Academy for her second year with the hope of representing Australia in an international ballet competition, the Prix de Fonteyn. This series introduced characters Grace Whitney (Isabel Durant), Ben Tickle (Thomas Lacey), Ollie Lloyd (Keiynan Lonsdale), and Saskia Duncan (Brooke Harman), and saw the characters' reaction to the untimely death of Sammy.
Series three followed the characters as third years at the Academy, competing for a contract with the dance company to become principal dancers. After the temporary contracts have been established, the third years go on tour for "Romeo and Juliet".
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