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What is the story of Dance Nation?
Set in an unspecified town in America, “Dance Nation” follows a group of 13-year-old dancers trying to get to Nationals in Tampa Bay, Florida.
The dancers (all girls, except one boy) grapple with puberty, hyper-competitiveness, and the literal monstrosity of growing up..
Set at an after-school dance studio in Liverpool, Ohio, the ruthlessly serious “Dance Teacher Pat” (Thomas Jay Ryan) is leading his troupe of six girls and one boy (there's always one boy) to prepare their newest competitive piece, the “acro-lyrical” (whatever that means) “World On Fire: the Legacy of Gandhi”, which

Is Dance Nation a good movie?

Dance Nation is 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

Also — it’s really funny

Dance Nation had its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons, New York, in May 2018 and its UK premiere at the Almeida Theatre in London

It won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2017 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize — Drama in 2019