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the wooden floor

Merce Cunningham, the late, great American avant-garde dancer and choreographer, once said that one realizes their identity through the act of dancing. What better way for youth to discover their potential than through the act of movement? This is one of the goals of The Wooden Floor, previously known as Saint Joseph Ballet, an after school organization in Santa Ana, California that serves 400 low-income youth annually. “The kids, in the process of doing all these explorations, investigations, or experimental work in the studio, come to connect with the parts of who they are that they don’t have space to connect with in other parts of their lives,” says Melanie Ríos Glaser, Executive and Artistic Director of The Wooden Floor.