Dance Nation Steppenwolf

A pre-teen dance troupe navigates ambition friendship and desire as they claw their way to Nationals in Tampa Bay.

Dance nation steppenwolf. Featuring a multigenerational cast of women playing our pre-teen heroines this Chicago premiere is fiercely funny theatrically inventive and full of heart. Halsted Chicago through February 2 2020. Steppenwolf Theatres rapturous revival helmed by directorchoreographer Lee Sunday Evans centers on 12- and 13-year-old members of a Liverpool Indiana middle school dance troupe competing for.

Steppenwolfs production features ensemble members Audrey Francis The MomsVanessa Tim Hopper Dance Teacher Pat Caroline Neff Zuzu and Karen Rodriguez Amina with Ariana Burks Sofia Adithi Chandrashekar Connie Shanésia Davis Ashlee Torrey Hanson Luke and Ellen. Dance Nation grapples with deciding what kind of artist you are going to be says Caroline Neff a Steppenwolf ensemble member who appeared in the 2018 Chicago premiere of You Got Older. Thirteen year old female dancers to be exact.

Dance nation written by Claire Barron is not a musical show but is in fact about dancers. Students as well as their teacher set a high bar for themselves in Clare Barrons DANCE NATION now onstage in Steppenwolfs Upstairs Theatre. Complete Information About Dance Nation in Chicago at Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

With no intermission and thus no chance for a polite escape this production feels more like an avant-garde experiment in torture than an illuminating night at the theater. Help us spread the word about Dance Nation. Working hard to win a title for their dance teacher played by Tim Hopper on the floor of the Upstairs Theatre at Steppenwolf.

Dance Nation written by Clare Barron and directed by Lee Sunday Evans captures the sweet strange and uncomfortable aspects of growing up in and surviving the world of competitive tween dance as we follow the adventures of six young girls preparing for a national tournament. From the get-go the wildness and weirdness of Steppenwolfs Dance Nation makes space for messy contradictions. For more shows visit Theatre in Chicago.

Tim Hopper stars as Dance Teacher Pat in Steppenwolf Theatres Chicago premiere of Dance Nation directed by Lee Sunday Evans in the Upstairs Theatre. It is the recipient of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and The Relentless Award established in honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman. Wed 12112019 - 1244pm by laughingcat.