r/danceacademy

I have been rewatching for the first time in ages and the friendship between Tara/Kat in season 1 is driving me crazy!

Although Kat had her personal reasons for not caring about taking first year seriously, she rsally had zero regard for how any of the other students felt or for the fact that they WANTED to be there and cared so badly about their place there.

Her attitude towards Tara caring about and taking her place at the academy seriously when Tara began doing more of her own working out/training and privates with Miss Raine was so frustrating because dance was literally why Tara was there.

I understood Kat being upset that Tara was late to her birthday breakfast but to get snarky with her when Tara said she would be late to the party because of a private was out of line. What was Tara supposed to do? Tell Miss Raine she had a party to go to and could not do her private?

I also get that Kat had travelled all over the world and had some really crap experiences like being forgotten in a hotel room and had been backstage at the ballet from childhood but she didnt even think about why getting the opportunity was such a big deal for Tara and thag Tara only knew the ballet side of Natasha as well as her reasoning for being so excited to meet her and watch her perform.

On the other hand, the comment Miss Raine made to Tara before the formal about her priorities and only putting in effort when it suits her was correct and feel that Kat probably had a similar point of view.

Majority of the season, Kat really did only care about boyfriends and did only put in effort and make the reason she was actually at the academy the priority when it suited her.

i much preferred the separate Sammy/Kat and Sammy/Tara friendships in season 1.

I’ve seen this show about a hundred times, and whenever I think about the dances I love most, these are the ones that always come to mind:

• Abigail’s Prix de Fonteyn solo
• Sammy’s Prix de Fonteyn solo
• Tara’s The Red Shoes
• Christian’s Mercutio solo
• Tara and Ben’s final Romeo and Juliet performance
• Tara’s Third Year Final Performance/Company Audition
• Abigail’s Company Audition
• Kat’s solo for Zack’s second-year assignment (Season 3)
• The group’s final performance during the series finale at Sammy’s studio grand opening
• The group’s performance at the Prix de Fonteyn
• Ben and Tara’s contemporary (?) midterm in Season 2, Episode 7
• The Third Years’ contemporary (?) duo/pas de deux in Season 3, Episode 1

I clearly have a lot of favorites but I am curious to know what are your favorite dances?