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highlights from local critics reviews - (click link at bottom of each review to read complete review)
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"Clare Barron's Dance Nation is a satirical and often provocative look at the lives of preteen girls competing on an ambitious dance team, capturing the insecurities, rivalries, and outsized dreams that accompany their transition from adolescence to young adults. The play offers plenty of intriguing observations about teenage angst, ambition, identity, and the pressures young individuals place on themselves and on one another. Valley Players' production features a cast and direction that are clearly invested in the material, bringing energy and commitment to its somewhat outrageous situations. However, while the piece is frequently evocative, funny, and thought-provoking, the fragmented storytelling and occasional confusing imagery keep it from being entirely cohesive or emotionally satisfying." - Gil Benbrook, TalkinBroadway.com (click here to read the complete review)
"The play may be polarizing to audiences. Loud in its message, its description and openness about genitalia and the girls discovering their bodies use an in-your-face approach. The messages in the show about coming of age in that way are in no way subtle. Although this lack of subtlety is not negative, it may not resonate with audience members who cannot relate to it. However, for those who like a boisterous take and can relate to being a young woman, the message resonates well. Through its exaggerated portrayal of serious topics, DANCE NATION is like laughing off something you are not yet ready to process." - Cheyenne Lewis, Broadway World (click here to read the complete review)
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