Announcing the Cast and Creative Team for DANCE NATION! / June 7, 2022 by Emily Harrison

square product theatre is pleased to announce the cast and creative team for our Regional Premiere of Clare Barron’s Dance Nation.

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 the Boogie Down Grand Prix in Tampa Bay. But in Clare Barron's raucous pageant of ambition and ferocity, these young dancers have more than choreography on their minds, because every plié and jeté is a step toward finding themselves, and a fight to unleash their power. Dance Nation is a play about ambition, growing up, and how to find our souls in the heat of it all.

THREE WEEKS ONLY!
July 14 - 30 in the Black Box Theatre @ the ATLAS B2 Center for Media, Arts, & Performance, University of Colorado Boulder
1125 18th St., Boulder

Tickets available NOW.

ACTING ENSEMBLE

*Anneliese Euler (she/her) as Vanessa/The Moms*

*Rodrigo Gallardo-Antunez (he/him) as Luke*

*Lorenzo González (he/him) as Dance Teacher Pat*

CREATIVE TEAM

*Gleason Bauer (they/them), director/design team*

*Emily K. Harrison (she/her), producer/design team*

*Bailey Trierweiler (he/they), design team*

*Tamara L. Meneghini (she/her), intimacy coordinator*

*Jean Yvonne Tyson (they/them), design team*

*Ash Cossey (she/they), production intern*

Sarah Powers (she/they), assistant director

*Rosie Glasscock (she/they), stage manager*

*Laura Ann Samuelson (they/them), choreographer*

Ham Jones on Pandemic Safety Measures / August 21, 2020 by Emily Harrison

We had a blast working on this unscripted project with the fine folks at Downtown Boulder. Who better to showcase pandemic safety measures than local "personality" Ham Jones? Okay, lots of people, probably, but still: we had a good time.

We Stand with the Black Community. / June 1, 2020 by Emily Harrison

Do Not Look Away.

Over the course of the last few weeks we have watched all too familiar stories unfold; stories of brutal atrocities directed at Black men and women in our country. We wish we could say that we are surprised, but the truth is: we aren't. The senseless and violent murders of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia, of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky, and of George Floyd in Minnesota are only three of the thousands of murders of innocent Black men, women, and children in the bloody history of our nation.

The violence directed at the Black community and the subsequent anti-racist protests across the country, including protests in Boulder and Denver, are the result of hundreds of years racism and discrimination lurking within nearly all facets of our culture. This racism is systemic and institutional, designed to discriminate in ways that many of us remain ignorant of, because our relative privilege allows us to blissfully maintain a dangerous and irresponsible lack of awareness.

We (white people) have to wake up. We have to do better. Because Black Lives Matter.

So I am writing to ask my fellow white Americans, both within and beyond my immediate community, please: DO NOT LOOK AWAY. Even if it makes you uncomfortable. Or rather when it makes you uncomfortable, because these realities, these conversations we must have, will inevitably make us uncomfortable. It will not be as uncomfortable as fearing for your own life and those of your loved ones every single day, which is the stark reality faced by those in the Black community. I truly believe that our discomfort, felt and explored in the desire to do better, to be better, is a very small price to pay.

We at square product theatre stand in solidarity and rage with the Black community. We commit ourselves to helping put an end to the senseless murder and harassment of Black men, women, and children by calling for more accountability in law enforcement and our systems of justice. We commit ourselves to contacting our elected officials to demand reform. And we commit ourselves to working within our community to dismantle systemic racism. We hope you'll join us.

#BlackLivesMatter #SayTheirNames

Emily K. Harrison, PhD, MFA
she/her/hers
Producing Artistic Director
square product theatre
Boulder, Colorado
Traditional Territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations

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sq product Featured in Dramatist's Guild / August 5, 2019 by Emily Harrison

Thanks to Denver playwright and actor Josh Hartwell for this comprehensive list of all the new work produced in Colorado in the 2018-19 season! We’re proud to be included with such great company.