Show Notes
Dance Academy, but make it IMAX… because we’re watching it WITH you 🩵🩵
We’re watching Season 1, Episode 7 together and there is SO much going on. Bad-on-purpose hip-hop, Kat and Tara being an absolute crush disaster, Sammy quietly falling for Abigail, and enough early-2010s wardrobe choices to keep us emotionally occupied for the full episode.
We also spill some very random memories from filming — old auditions, dancers we’d worked with before the show, the Sydney location we still miss, and the absolute nightmare of trying to dance, hit your mark, stay in time AND act at the same time. Honestly… we forgot how much was packed into this show 🍿
Same episode. Whole new experience. Welcome to the live watch special dAlings🩵
0:50 Dena on deliberately dancing badly as Abigail
6:02 The Dance Academy location we still can’t get over
7:46 Tim trying to dance
9:54 Kat enters + the audition story we still remember
12:50 “You’re the best dancer I know”
14:17 Kat, Sammy & the crush confusion gets messy
18:02 The hardest Dance Academy scenes to film
20:58 Cariba Heine: from mermaid to ballerina
23:29 Sammy tells Kat: “I love you… just not like that”
28:13 Sammy finally admits how he feels about Abigail
31:43 Proof Kat liked Christian first?
33:10 Our verdict on the first live rewatch
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