DANCE NATION at The CENTER for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck

Definitely Human Theatre and The CENTER for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck present Clare Barron’s DANCE NATION.

Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. And if their new routine is good enough, they’ll claw their way to the top at Nationals in Tampa Bay. An unorthodox play about ambition, growing up, and how to find our souls in the heat of it all.

Everyone is nice.
Everyone is vulnerable.
And everyone is trying their hardest.

A finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, DANCE NATION is a raucous pageant of ambition and ferocity where pre-teen competitive dancers plot to take over the world. Barron's "blazingly original and unsettlingly familiar" (NY Times) play explores a time in life when preteen minds and bodies are in a state of teeming flux as they peer over the precipice toward adulthood.