The Dance

by Kim Euell

A hip-hop influenced play using dance, sampled beats and spoken word to tell the story of how the convergence of epic events including neighborhood gentrification, the War on Drugs, and Mandela's historic visit impact the intersecting lives of three young people (2 African American artists and a white activist attorney) in 1990 in the Bay Area.

A hip-hop influenced play using dance, sampled beats and spoken word to tell the story of how the convergence of epic events including neighborhood gentrification, the War on Drugs, and Mandela's historic visit impact the intersecting lives of three young people (2 African American artists and a white activist attorney) in 1990 in the Bay Area.

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The Dance

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  • Playwrights Foundation: The Dance by Kim Euell
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    Playwrights Foundation enthusiastically recommends this play, THE DANCE, as a Semi-Finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2020. We were moved by the quality of the writing and the relevant and compelling themes that spoke to the mission of our festival. It excelled in a competitive process of 735 plays submitted this year and rose to the top after a six month long process discussing its merits with both national and local Bay Area readers, and we hope it moves swiftly towards production.

    Playwrights Foundation enthusiastically recommends this play, THE DANCE, as a Semi-Finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2020. We were moved by the quality of the writing and the relevant and compelling themes that spoke to the mission of our festival. It excelled in a competitive process of 735 plays submitted this year and rose to the top after a six month long process discussing its merits with both national and local Bay Area readers, and we hope it moves swiftly towards production.

    ”

Development History

  • Workshop, The Playwrights Center's Ruth Easton New Play Series, 2019
  • Reading, The Magnet Theater; Cape Town, South Africa, 2018
  • Residency, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Theater Dept., 2016