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    Dance Nation, by Clare Barron, focuses on seven 11-13 year old girls in a dance class preparing for a performance based on Gandhi. The play examines the inner thoughts and actions of the girls as they navigate the transition from childhood to adulthood. During this period of puberty and self-discovery, the girls experience new emotions, physical changes, and confusion as they develop into teenagers on the brink of womanhood. The play explores the delicate balance of confidence and insecurity inherent in coming of age.

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    Dance Nation, by Clare Barron, focuses on seven 11-13 year old girls in a dance class preparing for a performance based on Gandhi. The play examines the inner thoughts and actions of the girls as they navigate the transition from childhood to adulthood. During this period of puberty and self-discovery, the girls experience new emotions, physical changes, and confusion as they develop into teenagers on the brink of womanhood. The play explores the delicate balance of confidence and insecurity inherent in coming of age.

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    Dance Nation, by Clare Barron, focuses on seven 11-13 year old girls in a dance class preparing for a performance based on Gandhi. The play examines the inner thoughts and actions of the girls as they navigate the transition from childhood to adulthood. During this period of puberty and self-discovery, the girls experience new emotions, physical changes, and confusion as they develop into teenagers on the brink of womanhood. The play explores the delicate balance of confidence and insecurity inherent in coming of age.

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    Kate LaPierre

    American Drama

    Professor Sid Ray

    11 October 2022

    The Confidence and Insecurity of Being 13

    Dance Nation, written by Clare Barron takes the point of view of seven 11 to 13-year-old

    girls in a dance class, getting ready to put on a dance performance based on Gandhi and his

    spirit. This play focuses on the inner thought and actions of these girls and how they react and

    navigate becoming an adult from being a child. During this time they grow fangs, chew on

    lightbulbs, chant “pussy” around each other, and mistake their Dance Teacher as someone to

    love. Dance Nation explores and exposes the confidence and insecurity of being a teenager and

    shows the reality of what happens when childhood is forgotten and knowledge is gained,

    displaying the uncomfortable truth that society doesn’t want to receive.

    Puberty is a stage that all people will go through in their lives. Teenage girls have it the

    worst. Emotions run high, bodies change, hair grows in places that didn’t exist before.

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