During a family dinner, the parents toast upstairs while the kids stay glued to their screens in the basement. Unfortunately for them, Dad won’t let them isolate themselves like that, so he cuts the wi-fi. Screams and tears follow instantly. He then tries to show them how he used to have fun before the internet existed. Will the kids survive an evening without their screens?

Spider — she pirouettes on the edge of shadows, dancing in the light. Danger lurks in dark corners, beauty unappreciated. This is a wild game of survival.

After the Pumpkin tells the untold story of Cinderella after the ball. When the clock strikes midnight and the magic disappears, she is left with the memory of a perfect night—and the weight of returning to a life she cannot escape. This program explores the sadness, longing, and quiet strength found in the aftermath of a dream.

The Cumberland Valley Varsity Guard's 2026 production, I Know the End, captures the moment when intuition collides with denial. A lover senses her relationship is nearing its end, but refuses to accept the truth. Seeking reassurance, she turns to mystics, fortune tellers and the vast, indifferent universe, hoping for a future rewritten. Each revelation delivers the same message: the ending is unavoidable. Set to Phoebe Bridgers " I Know the End" the program confronts inevitability, loss, and the quiet devastation of foresight, revealing that acceptance is the greatest challenge.

Set to the haunting, melancholy mood of “Desperado”, this production tells a story of self-protection and the quiet courage it takes to let love in. The performers embody a fence guarded and built high from past hurt; they represent the walls we construct to keep the world at a distance. As the music unfolds, the fence begins to shift. What was once closed and unyielding slowly bends, opens, and softens, revealing the vulnerability underneath. By the final moments, the fence no longer stands as a boundary but as a reminder of isolation that was overcome and allowing love to walk in.

This season, the E.D. White Winterguard proudly presents their program “I watch them grow”, a heartfelt tribute to mothers and mother figures everywhere. Everyone has someone in their life who has nurtured them, guided them, and loved them unconditionally, and this production is our way of saying thank you… for everything. Through movement, music, and emotion, our performers honor the quiet strength, sacrifices, and endless love that shape who we become. This show is a reminder to pause, reflect, and appreciate those who have helped us grow.

As the world turns beneath an ever-darkening sky, Forsyth Central Winterguard confronts a haunting reflection of our own creation — a planet in distress. This is an emotional and visual exploration of the climate crisis, where beauty, chaos, and consequence intertwine. Through excellence in motion and dark imagery, the performers embody the tension between humanity and nature — the calm before the storm, the warning signs ignored, and the reckoning that follows. The familiar melody of “Bad Moon Rising” becomes a chilling echo of foreboding, reminding us that the disasters we fear are no longer

Finding comfort in the transition from sadness to hope... Clouds break... A soft light fills the heavenly sky... Warmth radiates onto the skin... An angelic connection brings comfort as we step into this newfound light of renewal and growth. A journey toward discovering emotional repair, transforming a feeling of isolation into a bright and colorful embrace. Clarity returns, joy invigorates the spirit, we move forward into the light stronger than ever... here comes the sun! Granite Bay High School Winter Guard is proud to present their 2026 program, "SOLACE"

Ornamented. Controlled. Immaculate. The Grassfield High School Color Guard is proud to present "Behind Damask". This production examines the power, discipline, and restraint demanded by a perfectly maintained exterior. Beneath the symmetry and elegance lies an unyielding system designed to uphold perfection, immersing the audience in a world where beauty is deliberate, control is absolute, and nothing is left to chance.

The Gulfport High School Varsity Winter Guard proudly announces its newest production, "In My Living Room". This performance invites audiences on a heartfelt journey through the highs and lows of Carole King’s remarkable life and legacy, told through her timeless music.

The Hamilton High School Winter Guard is proud to announce our 2026 production, “Lampyridae.” By stepping into the world of the Lampyridae, or lightning bugs, we are reminded that even as the world grows increasingly dark we must not wait for the light. We must look within, and find our own. And even when that light seems small compared to the darkness before us, we must remember that it is the collective glow of our aggregate luminosity that will empower us to vanquish the darkness. Our togetherness is our strength, and when we rise up in unison no shadow will be able to withstand our shine.

“Midnight Bloom is a musical journey inspired by the moonflower, a rare blossom that opens only in darkness. Tonight, we invite you to witness this single, magical moment unfold, revealing beauty that shines brightest in the night.”

"Let them truckers roll," capturing the spirit of outlaw truckers and antics. The phrase itself embodies defiance and camaraderie, a call to keep the wheels turning despite obstacles.

What do you see when you look in the mirror? Is it who you truly are… or who you believe yourself to be? "My Illusions" explores the fragile line between reality and perception. It’s about the reflections we create, the truths we avoid, and the versions of ourselves we project to the world. As we look inward, we confront the illusions we hide behind and the reality that stares back. See beyond the reflection. Discover the truth within.

Inspired by the song from SMASH, Broadway, Here I Come! tells the story of an actor chasing a lifelong dream of reaching the Broadway stage. The production follows a journey filled with ambition, rejection, self-doubt, and resilience, capturing the emotional highs and lows of pursuing a passion. Through moments of intensity, vulnerability, and renewed confidence, the show celebrates perseverance and personal growth. This 2026 production is a tribute to dreamers who dare to believe in themselves and take the leap toward the spotlight.

Inspired by “Wichita Lineman,” this production follows a group of linemen working high above the ground, separated by distance yet bound by connection. As signals travel through the wires and across open space, the performers explore the human need to reach one another, reminding us that even when we feel alone, connection is always within reach. Through movement and design, the performers tell a story of distance, longing, and the invisible ties that keep us connected to the people who matter most in our program: “Through the Wire”

Explore the delicate balance between control and chaos — between the dreamer and the dream. Step into a world where time stretches, memories fade, and reality fractures. We ask ourselves; are we still dreaming, or have we finally awakened? Featuring music from Dream a Lot, Hans Zimmer, and Edith Piaf, we will discover what a dream is to us.

The Murray High School Varsity Winter Guard turns up the energy this season with Spilling the Tea, a sassy, high-impact production that blends gossip, glamour, and class. Inspired by the modern phrase “spilling the tea,” the show dives into the whispers, secrets, and side-eyes that come with sharing information—and the confidence it takes to own the story. Sharp choreography, bold character moments, and dynamic equipment work bring the concept to life with style and precision. Spilling the Tea is playful, dramatic, and unapologetically fun, balancing humor and attitude with elegance

Pattonville Varsity Winterguard will take you on an energetic ride through their rustic post-apololyptic realm where chaos meets order. Behold the power and mystery of "Jericho".

Princess Anne High School Calypso Visual Ensemble proudly presents its 2026 production, UnCaged. Exploring the tension between confinement and freedom, the program examines the invisible barriers created by fear, expectation, and self-doubt. Through abstract imagery of cages and birds, the show transforms from rigid, restrained motion into fluid expression. Featuring the music of Charli XCX, including House and Everything Is Romantic, UnCaged celebrates self-acceptance, vulnerability, and the power of breaking free.

"Alleycats" is an animated production exploring the lives and antics of street cats after the sun goes down.

A celebration of string voices through melody, legato, and staccato.

That’s Life! is a vibrant production inspired by The Game of Life and set to Frank Sinatra’s classic “That’s Life.” The song’s midcentury sound drives the design and feel, while a featured spinner represents chance, momentum, and life’s unpredictable twists and turns.

The West Shore varsity colorguard proudly presents their 2026 program, "Beyond the Shore." Our program follows our performers under the sea to become mermaids that are dreaming of a life beyond what they’ve known. While home is a beautiful place where we can find comfort and love, it doesn’t stop us from thinking of what more is out there for us to explore. The varsity program is under the direction of Marianna Rylee Fernbaugh. Instructional staff includes Kiernan Huss and Jenna Archer. West Shore is proud to compete in KIDA and WGI.

This season, our Winterguard ensemble invites you into an intimate musical journey with “Ode to My Baby Grand” — a show that celebrates the timeless bond between artist and instrument. Inspired by the quiet elegance and emotional depth of a baby grand piano, this production is a love letter to the music that shapes us, comforts us, and carries our stories. “Ode to My Baby Grand” is a tribute to artistry, memory, and the enduring power of sound. It’s not just a performance — it’s a reflection of the soul behind the keys.

Perched in silence, they awaken. As daylight fades, stone cracks and breath returns. Gargoyles rise from stillness, testing movement, power, and purpose—preparing for the night before the sun sets, when nothing is fixed, and nothing is truly set in stone.

Step into a world where quills shape destinies and every choice becomes a chapter. To Tell the Tale invites viewers to craft their own legend with one decision, one obstacle, one revelation at a time. Inspired by the timeless phrase “And they lived to tell the tale,” the show follows characters who aren’t merely swept along by fate, they seize it. Watch how personal courage, creativity, and conviction can transform ordinary lives into unforgettable stories. To Tell the Tale blends historical charm with the universal quest for self-authorship.

The Eden Prairie Varsity Winter Guard is proud to announce their 2026 program “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper”. In 1932, a team of mostly immigrants were engaged in building a center for American art: the Rockefeller Center. These brave men conducted feats of daring daily hundreds of feet over the bustling streets of New York City overlooking Central Park. Photographers climbed up with them to shoot them at work. Their spirit, courage and pride comes through the camera lens. This year’s program pays homage to the immigrant workers who built an American icon: their city, their sky, and their creation.

"Our Moment" traces a journey from uncertainty to fearless self-acceptance. What begins restrained slowly unfurls, as individual voices rise and confidence takes shape. Hesitation gives way to brilliance — a bold claiming of space, identity, and the courage to be fully seen as the performance erupts into a showstopping finale of color, unity, and unapologetic power.

Immersed in the Twilight Zone, this performance will transport you into a space where “groovy” chaos fractures and transforms. Each tableau reveals a new, unpredictable and contrasting dimension, where styles intersect and respond to one another. In this twilight realm, time seems suspended, inviting you to let go of your bearings and embrace the strangeness, diversity, and beauty of the unexpected.

From Frederick, Maryland, Old Line Independent is proud to present their 2026 production: "On the Line." Perched atop a lone telephone pole in Wichita, Kansas, a lineman works against the backdrop of a slowly retreating sunset. Set to the soulful sounds of The Huntertones, we witness his isolation as he balances the weight of the wires against a deep longing for a voice on the other end. As the light fades across the plains, he searches the static for a connection that remains just out of reach.

Unplugged explores a world consumed by screens, notifications, and constant connection. As the digital noise fades, we rediscover presence, movement, and human connection. By unplugging from technology, we reconnect with ourselves, each other, and the beauty of life happening right in front of us.

The Edge Of The Abyss. Plainfield Winter Guard will be competing in our local circuit MWCGC and will also be competing at WGI Chicago, WGI Avon, and WGI World Championships. Staff Includes: Kelsey Arnony, Chuck Cummings, Lisa Janasik, and Kate Mcllvain

The Rangerettes Winter Guard from Cleveland, OH is thrilled to announce our 2026 Rangerettes Independent A program, “In the Stars”. Founded in 1951, the Rangerettes Organization is comprised of our Independent A, Independent Regional A, Junior Regional A and festival class groups. The Rangerettes Winter Guard is under the direction of Sara Meng. Show design by Alex Holland and Lola Flores-Holland. Additional choreography and technical staff includes Amanda Lang, Brooklynn Meyer, Carson Huffer, George Wechter, Jaret Cingel, Jeanne Taylor, and Leslie DeShane.

The human brain is not a linear structure. Beneath its surface lies a small-world architecture—a network in which distant regions are never truly far apart. In only a few synaptic steps, everything can connect to everything else. The show brings this invisible architecture into motion. The members form a living network where a single gesture can trigger distant responses, and individual movement constantly reshapes the whole. Architecture of the Mind is an invitation to witness thinking made physical: a landscape where every movement matters, and no motion exists in isolation.

The story, The Giving Tree, is retold from the tree’s perspective, exploring the cost of unconditional love. Through costuming and set, viewers see into the soul of the tree as her world is slowly dismantled; leaves, limbs, trunk. Performers manipulate chainsaws, even with their feet, highlighting the self-destruction the tree endures in order to continue giving. With a soundtrack framing generosity as her enemy the show exposes brokenness and loss with each sacrifice. Though she ends only a stump, that stump stands as a symbol of power and resolve of one who knows she gave everything she had.

Bethel High School Varsity Winter Guard is proud to present their 2026 program, Madness. Through moments of chaos and clarity, we discover how shared humanity can turn disorder, into understanding.

Echoes of Us explores the emotional experience of leaving a place that still feels like home. When it’s time to go, shared spaces become filled with memory and connection. This program illustrates how home isn’t always a location, but it is a collection of people and experiences that will continue to echo long after we are gone. We invite the audience to consider what it means to leave something meaningful behind, and how the memories shape who we will become.

Performing their program, “I Walk…”, WGI Sport of the Arts is proud to present… the Pope Winter Guard

Below the tide explores the myth of the siren: seductive, playful, and deadly. What begins as curiosity and innocent movement beneath the waves evolves into a teasing chase and an irresistible lure. Through hypnotic motion and song, the sirens draw their prey closer, disguising danger as beauty. In the end, the tide turns, the truth is revealed, and the sirens claim what has been drawn beneath the surface.

Allegiance presents "The Update", set in a 1950s world where things appear perfect on the outside, though something is strangely missing: Emotions. Evoking Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone, a dark undercurrent runs beneath the surface. When the final “update” is installed, the emotions arrive all at once, designed by a system that once suppressed them. The Update is an experience that revolves around a central question: “If an artificial system feels real to me, does it matter that it isn’t?” The most powerful updates aren’t ones that change our devices. They're the ones that change us...

THE SOUND. Sound does not arise out of nowhere. It begins with a vibration, small and almost invisible. That vibration sets the air in motion, grows into audible tones, and develops into rhythm, emotion, communication, and chaos. The show follows this process: from silence to explosion, from a single source to a world full of different kinds of sound.

Future Independent Winterguard is proud to present their 2026 production… "The Room Where It Happened." A complex murder mystery inspired by the game Clue. Placed within the iconic mansion the production provides the typical suspects as well as some new ones. The challenge is to figure out The Who? What? When? And lastly Where? Unwinding the complex answer to the most simple questions. We challenge our audiences to put on their detective hat and use the cues to make their accusations.

“Gone” explores the experience of returning to a once-familiar home and finding it changed in ways that feel unsettling and unexpected. Inspired by the emotion and imagery in Benjamin Clementine's "Gone," the show follows performers as they move through spaces shaped by memory, loss, and time. What was once warm and known now feels distant, worn, and altered, prompting a quiet search for what remains. The ensemble embodies nostalgia, reflection, and a gentle, melancholic ache as they navigate a landscape caught between past and present.

Noir Independent proudly presents its 2026 program, Through These Rooms. Set to Cynthia Erivo’s haunting ballad “You’re Not Here,” the production explores memory, absence, and the spaces we carry with us. As doors open and close, performers confront what remains when someone is gone—inviting the audience into an intimate journey of longing, reflection, and quiet resilience.

"What's Going On?" is a conversation starter. An invitation to pause, reflect, and ask the questions that matter. Grounded in the spirit of Marvin Gaye's timeless call for awareness and compassion, the work examines the space between unrest and hope, silence and action. "What's Going On?" challenges us not only to witness, but to listen, to reckon, and to recognize the collective responsibility we share in shaping what comes next.

Miamisburg HS presents their 2026 program, “Fantasie Impromptu” Set to the free-flowing, yet spontaneous, energy of Chopin’s masterpiece, watch as the space between fantasy and spontaneity is explored, structure dissolves into freedom, and ideas are born in the moment. Miamisburg is directed by Seth and Joseph Rivetti-Sharpe, with program design by Michael Townsend and Heather Graham. Additional staff members include Robin Wells, Danielle Marquardt, and Ava Fulker.

In a world pulled apart by the digital divide, “FrAcTuReD Dimension” reflects on what happens when screens replace connection and voices fade into the noise. Lost within fractured realities, our performers search for the pieces of what once bound us together—empathy, understanding, and the simple power of human touch. Through movement and reflection, they rediscover that even in a fractured world, unity can still be found when hearts choose to reconnect.

Assembly Line Senior World presents The Pale Blue Eye, an abstract re-imagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.” This production dives into the narrator’s unraveling mind, his obsession with the old man’s eerie pale eye, and the pounding guilt that betrays him. Blending movement, sound, and striking visual elements, it transforms Poe’s psychological horror into a modern, expressive performance experience.