EVENT LOCATION: Performing Arts Theater (PAT)

Dates: Thursday, May 22, 2025 - 7:30pm, Friday, May 23, 2025 - 7:30pm Wednesday, May  28, 2025 - 7:30pm, Thursday, May 29, 2025 - 7:30pm, Friday, May 30, 2025 - 7:30pm, Saturday, May 31, 2025 - 2:00pm

A UCSB Department of Theater & Dance production:

DANCE NATION By Clare Barron  

DIRECTED BY PESHA RUDNICK CHOREOGRAPHY BY CHRISTINA MCCARTHY 

ABOUT THE PLAY
Pre-teen competitive dancers prepare for Nationals, and their number’s coveted solo has yet to be assigned. As the pressure of the looming competition builds, the dancers must navigate shifting ground– changing bodies and bursting ambitions–together. Dance Nation presents the euphoric highs and devastating lows of dawning adolescence alongside a shared devotion to art that can bring a group together and bring you back to yourself. 

Dance Nation contains adult themes and language.  Appropriate for age 15 +

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Clare Barron is a playwright and actor from Wenatchee, Washington. Her plays include Shhhh,  You Got Older (Obie Award for Playwriting, Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Play, Kilroys List, and Susan Smith Blackburn finalist);  I’ll Never Love Again (The Bushwick Starr, NYTimes & Time Out Critics’ Picks); Baby Screams Miracle ; Three Sisters (adaptation) and Dance Nation, a finalist for the 2019  Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Ms. Barron is the winner of the Relentless Award established in honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the Paula Vogel award.