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Dance Nation

by clare barron. world premiere. 
premiered: playwrights horizons, nyc. may 2018.
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​directed and choreographed by lee sunday evans. sets: arnulfo maldonado. costumes: asta bennie hostetter
. lights: barbara samuels. sound: brandon wolcott. photography: arnulfo maldonado, joan marcus.

2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Finalist

"...'
Dance Nation' conjures the passionate ambivalence of early adolescence with such being-there sharpness and poignancy that you’re not sure whether to cringe, cry or roar with happiness...Arnulfo Maldonado’s dance-studio set has room for the emergence of a surreal, fairy-tale moon and a curtain-windowed corridor, from which emerges the sound of fractious adults. . " -- on DANCE NATION, The New York Times. NY Times Critic's Pick.

"Don’t be fooled by the exuberant opening number: Dance Nation is out for blood. Right after we watch eight competitive preteen dancers perform an Anything Goes­–style tap routine in matching nautical outfits, one of the little sailors is torpedoed by a compound fracture—and that’s just the first of many harsh surprises in Clare Barron’s riotous, rattling, sensational new play." -- on DANCE NATION, Time Out New York. TONY Recommended, Five Stars.

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