Jack Cobabe - Dance Nation

Voodoo Theater Company presents Dance Nation by Clare Barron

July 5-14, 2024

Directed by Ali Lente

Assistant Directed by Jack Cobabe

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. A play about ambition, growing up, and how to find our souls in the heat of it all.

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Meeting feral, ferocious, paganistic expectations: Voodoo Theatre Company’s Utah premiere of Clare Barron’s Dance Nation made for sizzling summer fareA show-stopping moment in the Voodoo Theatre Company’s Utah premiere production of Clare Barron’s Dance Nation comes when Ashlee, who is just coming into her teen years, delivers the mother of all monologues that any adolescent girl could ever dream of speaking. Running approximately three and a half pages in the script, Ashlee knocks the...

Clare Barron’s “Dance Nation” at Alliance Theatre is a raw and captivating exploration of a pre-teen dance troupe’s tumultuous world. The play delves into ambition, identity…rhetoricalreview.com/2024/07/06/pirouettes-and-puberty-the-fierce-and-unflinching-world-of-dance-nation/

Review: Voodoo Theatre Company’s ‘Dance Nation’ explores jubilation, heartbreak of being teen performer | Gephardt DailyWhen a show kicks off with a group of eight grown-ups, playing 13 and 14-year-olds, all dressed in jaunty sailor suits and hats, performing a very intense and earnest tap number, it doesn't take me long to conclude I'm going to be mesmerized.