Kicking their legs out, dancers in the final act of the Multicultural Showcase leap toward the audience.

Dancing in the Multicultural Showcase, members of the Latin-Hispanic Heritage Club throw their hands up while doing a salsa move.

Light beams down on the curtain in Meyer Hall, projecting the words “One World, Many Stories: Multicultural Showcase.” The showcase followed the theme of uniting different cultures while highlighting how diversity makes us unique through songs and other performances.

Lifting up her dress from the side while spinning, band senior Jailise Cora sings a traditional Puerto Rican song, “Preciosa,” to the audience.

During the final bows, all members of the Multicultural Showcase close off the performance by singing and dancing to “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” by Marvin Gaye.

With a guitar accompaniment by vocal junior Alex Matos, vocal senior Itala Derteano sings a Latin song.

Theatre senior Samantha Marchena, acting as Daniela from the Broadway musical “In the Heights,” sings during the Multicultural showcase. “I try to participate in it every year because as a high school, we don’t have the actors and the resources to do musicals like ‘West Side Story’ or ‘In the Heights’ or something where I’d get to show my Latin culture,” Marchena said. “So I like doing a song from there, like this year how I did ‘No Me Diga’ from ‘In the Heights.’ I like showcasing that in the Multicultural Show to bring some musical theatre into it and sing.”

Dressed in a pink fringe dress, dance senior Emma Elders performs a Latin-inspired dance, which was the last piece during the Latin and Hispanic Heritage club’s portion of the show.

Digital media senior Tyson Jimerson speaks alongside visual senior Taniyah Aris as they introduce the Black Student Union’s segment for the Multicultural Show. “We wanted to highlight how important representation is,” Jimerson said. “Talking about ‘The Princess and the Frog’ and the origins of that, we turned it into the first Black Disney princess and how important that was for the community. All of that just goes to show how important representation is. The main goal is just to inspire people to pursue ways of representing their community proudly and continuing to fight for equality.”