Square Product Theatre in collaboration with the ATLAS B2 Center for Media, Arts & Performance presents the Regional Premiere of Dance Nation, by Clare Barron

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 the Boogie Down Grand Prix in Tampa Bay. But in Clare Barron's raucous pageant of ambition and ferocity, these young dancers have more than choreography on their minds, because every plié and jeté is a step toward finding themselves, and a fight to unleash their power. Featuring a multigenerational cast of women playing these pre-teen heroines, Dance Nation is a play about ambition, growing up, and how to find our souls in the heat of it all.

7:30 p.m., Thursday, July 14

7:30 p.m., Friday, July 15

7:30 p.m., Saturday, July 16

7:30 p.m., Monday, July 18

7:30 p.m., Thursday, July 21

7:30 p.m., Friday, July 22

7:30 p.m., Saturday, July 23

4:00 p.m., Sunday, July 24

7:30 p.m., Thursday, July 28

7:30 p.m., Friday, July 29

7:30 p.m., Saturday, July 30

Directed by Gleason Bauer

Choreographed by Laura Ann Samuelson (MFA Dance, '20), in collaboration with the cast

Featuring performances by: Huda Aljidaa, Savanna Arellano, Anneliese Euler, Rodrigo Gallardo-Antúnez (BFA Performance, '22), Lorenzo González, Emily K. Harrison (PhD Theatre, '12), Isabella Cho Jones (BFA Performance, '24), Nina Rolle, and Edith Weiss

With production design by: Gleason Bauer, Jess Buttery (BA Theatre, '10), Emily K. Harrison, Jay Tyson, and Bailey Trierweiler (BFA Theatre Design & Technology, '18)

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