A must-see contemporary dance performance that reveals the depth of youth overcoming adversity. Co-creating work with the nation?s leading choreographers, The Wooden Floor's young dancers and their thought-provoking performances showcase just how much the human spirit can accomplish. ?So integral and polished that its performances draw high praise from the LA Times and others.?-LA Weekly ABOUT THE DANCES "Skylight," a new work by Baryshnikov Center resident artist and 2016 US State Department Cultural Ambassador, John Heginbotham, is set to solo guitar music by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. It is fast-paced, athletic and tender. Inspired, in part, by the idea of a desert, clean and far, full of vanishing horizons and hovering silver pools, the dance is concerned with vibrant distance, strange reflection, traveling alone and in packs, and occasionally with uncertain obstruction. The performers invite the question, ?What?s behind that?? ?and then suddenly, there is no that. Faye Driscoll, a Bessie Award winner, premieres "The One Hundred in the One" which plays with the impact of image, the untraceable ripple of cause and effect, and the epic drama present in a simple hello. Familiar images are mixed-up and linked together to create new social dances and sculptural interconnected forms. Performers playfully shift, twist and stumble into and through each other, balancing individual desires with the tide of community. This new work is a study in interconnected group forms and how everyday acts become heightened towards fantasy. "Playground" by Fulbright Scholar Melanie Ríos Glaser, titled Playground, talks back to us. It is made out of bits and pieces almost exclusively created by the dancers. Through prompts and tasks, we give the dancers the freedom to access the necessary modes for making work by using their intuition, spontaneity, humor, intelligence, self-awareness and creativity. Particularities and personalities are sought out, celebrating the individual even when forming a part of the group. The dance aims for an evolved sense of empathy and compassion.