The Gutsy Dancers did a run-through of their performance and changed into their costumes. The show begins as Toshi Makihara of the Leah Stein Dance Group plays a drumbeat and the performers emerge from behind trees. They move about as if searching for someone. Some of the performers then roll down a hill. For a moment, the parents, grandparents, friends and others present have blank looks on their faces.
Laughter rings out in the audience as the students make duck sounds.
Makihara moves along through the crowd to a tree, where he begins to drum on cutting boards hanging from the branches. The show ends with the adult performers and teen dancers clapping their sticks against a deck in a rhythm. Arranging the sticks in an artistic fashion, the students lay down on the deck, then rise for applause. The Furness group had been practicing for the show since late February, when Leah Stein and David Konyk performed at the school and signed students up for the program. Through it all, Joann Montoro, the Humanities SLC coordinator, has watched the students explore their artistic side.