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'Dance Nation'
Image: Gregory Lorenzutti
'Dance Nation'
Image: Gregory Lorenzutti
'Dance Nation'
Image: Gregory Lorenzutti
'Dance Nation'
Image: Gregory Lorenzutti
'Dance Nation'
Image: Gregory Lorenzutti
'Dance Nation'
Image: Gregory Lorenzutti
'Dance Nation'
Image: Gregory Lorenzutti
'Dance Nation'
Image: Gregory Lorenzutti
'Dance Nation'
Image: Gregory Lorenzutti
'Dance Nation'
Image: Gregory Lorenzutti
'Dance Nation'
Image: Gregory Lorenzutti
A dance class. A friendship group. A revolution.
Fighting to unleash their power, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plot to take over the world, one routine at a time.
'Dance Nation' is a ferocious exploration of youth, ambition, expectation and self-discovery.
'Dance Nation' received its UK premiere at the Almeida Theatre, London, September 2018.
Playwrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, produced the World Premiere of 'Dance Nation' in 2018 with support from an award by the National Endowment of the Arts, and a generous gift from Scott M. Delman.
Special thanks to The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Trust for supporting new plays at Playwrights Horizons, and special thanks to the Time Warner Foundation for its leadership support of New Works Lab at Playwrights Horizons.
'Dance Nation' was developed at the Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival, June 2015, with the Atlantic Theatre Company, and presented as part of the Contemporary American Voices Festival at Long Wharf Theatre, September 2016.
'Dance Nation' was written, in part, in residence at SPACE on Ryder Farm, and received extensive workshop time and space as part of New Dramatists’ Jerry A. Tishman Playwrights Creativity Fund.
By Arrangement with ORiGiN™ Theatrical
On Behalf of Samuel French A Concord Theatricals Company
PRODUCTION TEAM
Writer: Clare Barron
Director: Emily Tomlins
Associate Director: Liv Satchell
Assistant Director: Keith Brockett
Choreographer: Forest Kapo
Movement Coach: Colin Sneesby
Assistant Choreographer: Niamh Corcoran
Additional choreography by the Company
Voice Coach: Mark Wong
Set Designer: Ingrid Muller
Costume Designer: Kiara Brown
Lighting and Vision Designer: Lara Gabor
Sound Designer: Jennifer Tan
Stage Manager: Maisy Butchart
Assistant Stage Manager: Morgan Clyne
Workshop Head of Department (Staging): Sara Bayley
Workshop Head of Department (Props): Brad Hora
Workshop Head of Department (Scenic): Brooke Painter
Workshop Assistants: Willow Argus, Ella Barrett, Jimmy Dikranian
Senior Costumier: Mikailah Looker
Head Electrician: Phi-Phi Nguyen
Lighting and Vision Programmer and Operator: Eoin Coolahan
CAST
Alfie Baker, Jay Gold, Niamh Corcoran, Louisa Cusumano, Sarah Iman, Gabrielle Ng, Raven Roger-Wright, Shanu Sobti, Luna Vásquez
'Dance Nation'
Image: Gregory Lorenzutti