Dance Academy, Season 1 S01 E01
Country-girl Tara Webster travels to Sydney to audition for the prestigious National Academy of Dance. It’s a tumultuous week as she realises her dream of becoming a dancer is going to be a lot more difficult.
Country-girl Tara Webster travels to Sydney to audition for the prestigious National Academy of Dance. It’s a tumultuous week as she realises her dream of becoming a dancer is going to be a lot more difficult.
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Emma loses her mermaid nature and her powers after touching some mysterious blue seaweed. Remembering what it's like being “normal” - she used to be a passionate swimmer - she rejoins the synchronized swimming team, which is preparing a show for the Summer Solstice Festival.
A grand holiday resort on Mako Island? Its idyllic slopes covered with concrete and the volcanic lake inside the mountain, where the mermaids first transformed, converted into a swimming pool? Only Zane's father could have dreamed up such a development. But Emma, Cleo and Rikki aren't going to let this happen!
Emma's in a dilemma: handsome Byron has invited her to his birthday party on his uncle's yacht. Her girlfriends tell her it's no place for someone who transforms into a mermaid at the slightest drop of water. But Emma willfully goes along. Afraid she'll do something silly, her girlfriends and Lewis join the party.
During a scientific experiment conducted by Lewis out at sea, the three mermaids find a wooden statue of a white mermaid on the seafloor! Lewis discovers it's the figurehead of a famous pirate galleon, the White Mermaid, which sank at sea without a trace! Rikki and Emma are thrilled, while Cleo is preoccupied by something else.
Little Elliot gets his big sister Emma to enter the Grand Sand Sculpture contest with him. Meanwhile Cleo's day starts badly at the Oceanic Center: Mr. Lambert puts her in charge of the new intern - Miriam, the Mayor's daughter and high school pest! Miriam lives up to her reputation, and submits Cleo to a series of capricious outbursts.
To help their friend Cleo get hired (as a volunteer) at the Dolphin City Oceanic Centre, Rikki, Emma and Lewis take her out free-diving off Mako Island, to see underwater wildlife in person! But when their motorboat's engine fails, they have to spend the night on the island: that night, when Rikki, Emma and Cleo are exploring the island, they fall into a mysterious cave.
The National Ballet comes to town and Tara is thrilled to learn that Kat's mother is Natasha Willis, the Company's Principal dancer and her childhood idol. Sammy's girlfriend, Mia, also arrives forcing Sammy to evaluate his growing feelings.
Sammy is forced to choose between dance and his father when compulsory Saturday ballet classes clash with his Synagogue services. Christian struggles to accept the rules of the Academy.
The first years are given trust exercises to help forge connections with their pas de deux partners. Tara is frustrated when Christian refuses to participate, however they connect unexpectedly when Tara follows him to the beach.
When Tara's crush on Ethan threatens to derail her friendship with Kat, Sammy gets her to write a pros and cons list to clear her head. As the roommate war escalates, Abigail wins a decisive victory - emailing Tara's list to the whole school.
Tara arrives at the Academy excited about the year ahead but soon discovers that she is the worst dancer in the class. As Tara struggles to fit in, she learns the hard way to respect her teachers.
Country-girl Tara Webster travels to Sydney to audition for the prestigious National Academy of Dance. It’s a tumultuous week as she realises her dream of becoming a dancer is going to be a lot more difficult.
Rikki gains an admirer in Emma's younger brother Elliot when she saves him from drowning. She lets him down hard causing him to run away and hide in the fernery. The girls find him just as the watering system is about to start.
Kim reads Cleo's diary and finds evidence of mermaidness. She spies on the girls and decides Miriam is the head mermaid. Miriam and Cleo enter the Queen of the Sea contest where Kim tries to prove her theory but only succeeds in upsetting Miriam.
It's the school art exhibition and the theme is family. Rhydian puts up a picture of a lonely boy, with silhouettes of parents in the distant background. He storms out when the 3 Ks comment on it. Tom has put up loads of pictures of him and his dad at football matches, he is excited that his dad is coming to the exhibition.
Maddy's mum Emma is worried about Rhydian growing up in care, with no wolfblood support. She wants to invite him around for dinner to teach him about wolfblood ways and how they fit into human society. Shannon has proof at last! She has a photo of a wolf and puts posters up of it all over the school.
A girl is home alone on a full moon when she hears a noise outside... She bravely goes to see what it is and is confronted by two wolves escaping from INSIDE her house! She controls them back into the cellar - her eyes flashing golden - who is this girl? She's Maddy Smith and she's a wolfblood. Maddy meets her friends Tom and Shannon at school.
Emma's in a dilemma: handsome Byron has invited her to his birthday party on his uncle's yacht. Her girlfriends tell her it's no place for someone who transforms into a mermaid at the slightest drop of water. But Emma willfully goes along. Afraid she'll do something silly, her girlfriends and Lewis join the party.
During a scientific experiment conducted by Lewis out at sea, the three mermaids find a wooden statue of a white mermaid on the seafloor! Lewis discovers it's the figurehead of a famous pirate galleon, the White Mermaid, which sank at sea without a trace! Rikki and Emma are thrilled, while Cleo is preoccupied by something else.
Little Elliot gets his big sister Emma to enter the Grand Sand Sculpture contest with him. Meanwhile Cleo's day starts badly at the Oceanic Center: Mr. Lambert puts her in charge of the new intern - Miriam, the Mayor's daughter and high school pest! Miriam lives up to her reputation, and submits Cleo to a series of capricious outbursts.
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