<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Production website </Td> </Tr> <P> 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 . </P> <P> A film sequel to the television series, Dance Academy: The Movie, was released by StudioCanal in Australian cinemas on 6 April 2017 . </P> <P> 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). </P>

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