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Fifteen-year-old Tara Webster has grown up on a farm in outback 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.

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Dance Academy

Series listing
Dance Academy series 1 series
Dance Academy series 2 2012
Dance Academy series 3 2013
Director
Jeffrey Walker  Cherie Nowlan  Catriona McKenzie  Ben Chessell  Ian Gilmour
Writers
Samantha Strauss  Sam Carroll  David Ogilvy  Michael Miller  Deborah Parsons  Sarah Lambert  Matt Ford  David Hannam  Max Dann  Greg Waters  Alicia Walsh  Ellie Beaumont  Liz Doran
Producer
Joanna Werner
Executive Producers
Bernadette O'Mahony  Joanna Werner
Dir. of Photography
Martin McGrath ASC
Cast
Xenia Goodwin - Alicia Banit - Dena Kaplan - Tom Green - Jordan Rodrigues - Tim Pocock - Tara Morice
Production Completion
2010
Production Company
Werner Film Productions Pty Ltd  Dance Academy Productions Pty Ltd

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