Dance Nation
Feb 19 - 28 | 2027
A play by Clare Barron
SHOW DATES|TIMES
WEEKEND 1
FRIDAY | February 19 @ 7:30pm
SATURDAY | February 20 @ 7:30pm
SUNDAY | February 21 @ 6pm
WEEKEND 2
THURSDAY | February 25 @ 7:30pm
FRIDAY | February 26 @ 7:30pm
SATURDAY | February 27 @ 2pm & 7:30pm
SUNDAY | February 28 @ 6pm
A portion of every individual ticket sold for this show is donated to support Arts Missoula’s new grant fund initiative for Native artists.
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Mondays | 12-5pm
Wednesdays | 12-5pm
Fridays | 12-4pm
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about the show
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.
Westside Theater is pleased to present Dance Nation, 2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama, 2015 Winner of the Relentless Award, and 2017 Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Dance Nation is part-dance, part-theatre: a play about ambition, growing up, and how to find our souls in the heat of it all.
State Theatre Company in South Australia called Dance Nation “a blur of reality and fantasy; a dream and a nightmare. It flips from the mundane to the surreal in a heartbeat, taking the audience on a turbulent ride through adolescence.”
You won’t want to miss a precious sequin-clad second!
CONTENT ADVISORY: This play contains adult language and themes, not suitable for young children.
collaborators
SCRIPT by Clare Barron
Presented by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals
PRODUCED by Kelly Bouma & Marie Fahlgren
DIRECTED by Sarah Butts
CHOREOGRAPHY by Joy French
LIGHTING DESIGN by Spoon Mosley
SOUND DESIGN by Mike Steinberg
SCENIC DESIGN by Mike Fink
COSTUME DESIGN by Ashley Griffith
STAGE MANAGED by Ronnie Avansino
cAST
DANCE TEACHER PAT played by Mark Plonsky
AMINA played by Kendra Mylnechuk Potter
ZUZU played by Kairi Lising
CONNIE played by Salome Daniel
LUKE played by Aiden Kelly
MAEVE played by Ann Peacock
SOFIA played by Kelly Bouma
ASHLEE played by Abigail Gilbert
VANESSA/ LUKE's MOM/ SOFIA'S MOM played by Amy Lariviere
ZUZU's MOM played by Marie Fahlgren
Dance Nation is presented as part of our 2026|2027 Season
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