Dance Nation
Clare Barron
Performance Dates: March 5-14, 2026
*Michigan Premiere*
Finalist, 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
If you aren’t ready to bleed, break a few bones, or trample your best friend, then you aren’t ready for this after school dance group. When a pre-teen dance team sets its sights on national glory, the stage becomes a battlefield of bodies, dreams, and identity, where the stakes are as high as the pirouettes are sharp. Will the team be able to ban together or will the hunger for dominance turn them into monsters? Dance Nation is a fiercely funny, deeply poignant explosion of ambition, adolescence, and the raw power of girlhood.
*Please note that, per the playwright, all pre-teen characters are to be played by adults of any age
Director TBD