A film sequel to the television series, Dance Academy: The Movie was released by StudioCanal in Australian cinemas on 6 April 2017.

In the first series, Tara soon befriends fellow students Kat (Alicia Banit) and Ethan Karamakov (Tim Pocock), Sammy Lieberman (Thom Green), Abigail Armstrong (Dena Kaplan) and Christian Reed (Jordan Rodrigues), as well as eventually getting to know her teacher Ms. Raine (Tara Morice).

[5][6] Series Two sees Tara return to the academy for her second year with the hope of representing Australia in an international ballet competition, the Prix de Fonteyn.

This series introduces new students Grace Whitney (Isabel Durant), Ben Tickle (Thomas Lacey), Ollie Lloyd (Keiynan Lonsdale), as well as teachers Saskia Duncan (Brooke Harman),[7][8][9] and Zach, and sees the characters react to an unexpected death.

Series two premiered on ABC3 on 12 March 2012 and ran for 26 episodes, airing each week from Monday through Thursday, ending on 24 April.

Eighteen months after the life-changing injury that occurred in the penultimate episode of the TV series, she finds herself taking a college writing class and working as a waitress in the Sydney Opera House, while her former dance rival and current roommate Abigail enjoys a place as a promising dancer in the National Ballet Company.

She stands to win close to a million dollars in compensation thanks to compelling evidence in the form of a personal testimonial provided by Tara’s former ballet teacher Ms Raine.

However, after being casually invited to audition by the Company's artistic director, Madeline, Tara drops the court case and begins training.

Tara also runs into another former Academy classmate, Ollie, who has been auditioning unsuccessfully for a long time and shows her the rigors of trying to "make it" as a dancer.

After seeing Tara dance, Madeline offers her a place in the corps de ballet as another dancer has pulled out due to injuries.

Back in Sydney, the friends watch and participate in a high-energy performance by Christian's dance students at the Samuel Lieberman Centre.

Having realised her new ambition to become a choreographer, Tara maps out her plans for her next piece in the journal she receives from Christian, confidently predicting, "this next part is going to be amazing", presumably referring not only to the dance but their future together.