Dance Academy/Characters

A character sheet for Dance Academy.

Main Characters

Tara Webster

• Break the Cutie: in season two, due combined factors of Saskia Duncan's abuse, Grace's influence, and Christian cheating on her with Kat.
• Naive Everygirl: Sometimes.
• Wangst: largely in season one.

Kat Karamakov

• Genki Girl
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Kat and Ethan respectively in the first season.

Sammy Lieberman

• Bi the Way: given his relationships with Ollie and Abigail
• Bury Your Gays
• Coming Out Story
• Informed Judaism
• Killed Off for Real
• Nice Jewish Boy
• Why Couldn't You Be Different?: His father isn't very happy about his dancing, to the extent he stops paying Sammy's tuition in season two. Though to be fair, it's more because he wants Sammy to pursue a more financially secure path in life than just general disapproval.

Abigail Armstrong

• Deadpan Snarker
• Defrosting Ice Queen
• Manipulative Bastard
• Ship Tease: With Ethan in season two.

Christian Reed

• Dark and Troubled Past
• Parental Abandonment: His father abandoned him and his mother died.

Ethan Karamakov

• Big Brother Mentor: For Kat.
• Put on a Bus: to Barcelona
• Ship Tease: with Abigail in season two.

Grace Whitney

• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
• Kick the Dog: dancing The Red Shoes to mock Tara, knowing how much it means to her and after everything that happened with Saskia.
• Manipulative Bastard
• Poisonous Friend
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: how she turns Tara against Abigail.
• Yandere: very close to it, with her attempting to have Zach fired when he rejects her. Also similar in how she handles her friendships with Abigail and Tara...

Ben Tickle

• Adorkable
• Dark and Troubled Past: he's a cancer survivor.
• Innocent Bigot: in his first episode, thanks to his constantly using the word "gay" in it's pejorative sense (and some Unfortunate Implications filled statements to Christian). Sammy gives him a talk, and he quickly snaps out of it.
• Keet: In terms of hyperactivity.

Other Characters

Miss Raine

• Reasonable Authority Figure
• Stern Teacher

Saskia Duncan

• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
• Broken Pedestal
• Green-Eyed Monster: why she actually despises Tara so much.
• Never My Fault: she repeatedly denies that there is anything cruel or unusual about her treatment of Tara, or that she was the one responsible for Tara's injury.
• Sadist Teacher