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Dance Nation Gets Another Extension at Playwrights Horizons

Lee Sunday Evans directs and choreographs the world premiere of Clare Barron’s play.

Kenji Fujishima

Kenji Fujishima

| Off-Broadway |

May 16, 2018

Lucy Taylor, Camila Canó-Flaviá, Purva Bedi, Ellen Maddow, Eboni Booth, Dina Shihabi, and Ikechukwu Ufomadu in Dance Nation
Lucy Taylor, Camila Canó-Flaviá, Purva Bedi, Ellen Maddow, Eboni Booth, Dina Shihabi, and Ikechukwu Ufomadu in Dance Nation
(© Joan Marcus)

Playwrights Horizons has announced yet another extension of its world-premiere production of Clare Barron's Dance Nation, directed and choreographed by Lee Sunday Evans. It will now run through June 17.

The play is described as follows: "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."

The cast of Dance Nation includes Purva Bedi, Eboni Booth, Camila Canó-Flaviá, Obie Award winner Ellen Maddow, Christina Rouner, Thomas Jay Ryan, Dina Shihabi, Lucy Taylor, and Ikechukwu Ufomadu.

The production has scenic design by Arnulfo Maldonado, costume design by Ásta Bennie Hostetter, lighting design by Barbara Samuels, and sound design by Brandon Wolcott.

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