Bright lights, passionate movement, enticing music and unspoken stories. This is no ordinary music performance. It’s the high-energy 2001 Tony and Emmy award-winning show, “Blast.”

Blast, a primarily percussion band, will perform at Stephens Auditorium on Friday.

“It’s not just people up on the stage, breaking into song,” said Jean Heasley, a musician and color guard member of the show. Instead, the show has a mixture of classical, blues, jazz, rock n’ roll and techno-pop music. The musicians and visual artists all play drums at some point in the show, and all performers play more than one instrument.

“It’s one of the shows that rose to the top,” said Mark North, general manager of the Iowa State Center. “Very high-energy and good musicianship and choreography is very precise … If you’re a fan of college or high-school marching bands, you’re going to be a fan of this show.”

In 1985, the group started as “The Star of Indiana Drum and Bugle Corps.” In 1994, the group began experimenting with theater and in 1999, it opened the show it is currently performing.

In performances, the Blast group shows emotions and stories through music and movement, appealing to numerous senses at once. In the current show, for example, the songs are each assigned a different color to show the mood of the music.

Along with its tour, the group is also currently holding auditions. Participants can visit the Blast website to find the audition link and submit a video. To any musician interested in auditioning, Heasley advised to “put everything on [the video] that you possibly can.”

Heasley said the music in a Blast performance varies from show-to-show, and the music can make audience members feel many emotions.

“My goal is just to share myself and my music and our show,” Heasley said.

Blast!

Where: Stephens Auditorium

When: Friday, Oct. 14 at 7:30 p.m.

Cost: $20 students