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NORWICH – When a flower is ready to bloom, it becomes a beautiful object that is put on display for the world to see. This year, the Perkins School of the Arts presents, “Bloom: A beautiful process of becoming.”

“The concept behind our show this season is that we start the process from the beginning, when the kids are young and little in our pre-dance class and continue them right through to their senior year,” said studio co-owner Mikey Perkins. “It's a beautiful to watch from start to finish.”

Perkins School of the Arts start classes a week after the school starts in September and culminates with a year-end recital, which opens at at 7 p.m., Friday, June 7 The students of the PSA will get a chance to showcase all the hard work they have done over the past eight months.

What the studio has witnessed since the end of last year is the growth of dancers to attend the school, most in the younger classes that will be on display for Saturday and Sunday matinee performances.

“The studio has grown so much since last June,” said Perkins. “We usually try to limit our pre-dance, or our youngest group of dancers ,to 10 students per class. This year, we our smallest class of pre-dancers is 10 and we have three of them.”