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Dance Academy: The Movie
Inspired by her deep love and big talent in dancing, Tara Webster, a young teenager beautiful girl who dreams of becoming a professional dancer, joins a ballet school, where she does her best, buy once everything turns upside down, when she faces an accident that changes her life and prevents her from being a professional dancer.



















20 July 1992, Sydney, Australia

1936, London, England, UK



15 November 1958, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia


7 February 1994


31 July 1993, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia


March 27, 2017
In the final stanza of "Dance Academy" it finally becomes the movie that you're hoping it will be; it's a crowd pleaser that has surprises up its sleeve.
April 07, 2017
Fans of the show will feel dutifully well-served. Those coming to the film cold might feel a little iced out.
April 12, 2017
The dialogue isn't exactly sparkling. It's matter-of-fact at best, cliched at worst, but Tara and friends are easy to like. The ballet movie tradition is well served.
April 05, 2017
Subversive entertainment it ain't. But nor is this well-paced yarn - with pleasing albeit narrowly scoped performances from a perky cast - bereft of pleasantries and surprises.
April 05, 2017
The old-fashion story path navigated here (much of which takes place in the US) is a lot more downbeat and realistic about the plight of young performers than many viewers will expect. The movie as a whole is all the better for it.
April 06, 2017
If you want to be a snob about dance-based drama for teens, that's your choice, but you're about to miss out on something pretty great.
April 14, 2017
I liked the Emma Stone-Ryan Gosling song and dance romance-drama, but for me Dance Academy feels more real. It has something about it that is more dramatic, more emotional, more complex.
April 05, 2017
Walker exhibits admirable restraint in the face of such potentially overwrought romantic tropes, refusing to milk the emotional moments, encouraging his actors to underplay the key scenes. The characters' self-deprecating humour also serves the film well.
April 12, 2017
Strauss is a writer of real flair. A former teen dancer, she knows the milieu like the back of her hand and is not ashamed to take delight in an all-Aussie phrase like "pity pash".
April 10, 2017
What it lacks in surprises, it makes up for in poise, a standard coat of glossy-imaged polish, and an affable teen melodrama air.
May 31, 2017
There's a realness to these characters and their journey that makes this worth a look.
April 06, 2017
While maintaining the heart that helped make it a small-screen hit, Dance Academy looks every bit the sumptuous big-screen drama.