Dance Nation

An army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world.

This groundbreaking play by Clare Barron is a ferocious and darkly hilarious exploration of ambition and friendship. As they fight to win a national championship, these young dancers catapult toward finding themselves and unleashing their power.

But this play is no straight-laced coming-of-age-tale. Dance Nation blurs reality and fantasy; dreams and nightmares. The winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Dance Nation fuses high-energy dance numbers with dark comedy, poignant personal moments, and wild bursts of surrealism.