Everyone is guilty of indulging their imagination.

Sitting in class and listening to a lecture, the teacher’s voice begins to fade. Eyes glaze over and suddenly, you’re in a Lady Gaga music video. Or saving the world. Or even telling someone what you really think of them.

These daydreams, however fleeting, can provide a wonderful escape.

The teenage advanced students perform an aerial routine to Lady Gaga's Papparazzi. Photo by: Ashley Strickland

This weekend, there is a place Athenians can go and see the hazy-rimmed playground of daydreams turned into a visual reality. Canopy Studio’s advanced students are putting on “Daydream,” a collection of 13 pieces that explore the vast creativity of people’s childlike fantasies through trapeze, fabric and aerial dance.

“Everybody has daydreams,” Mazie Bowen, an advanced adult student at Canopy Studio, said. “Maybe they’ll recognize one of their own daydreams in there.”

The 35 students range from children to teens to adults and their pieces are derived from the classes they have taken at Canopy Studio.

Although guided by five teachers at the Studio, most of the students have choreographed their own pieces. Segments in between the 13 pieces will include everyone together.

“Everyone wants to be someone they aren’t,” Melissa Robertson, director at Canopy Studio said. “When we were planning this, we asked ourselves, ‘how can we be as creative as we possibly can?’”

The show will match aerial dance with a myriad soundtrack and a light, theatrical atmosphere.

One of the teen pieces is choreographed to a Lady Gaga song, complete with outlandish masks. Another piece will be set to Led Zeppelin’s “Welcome to the Jungle,” while the adult class has a “superhero” piece with a Batman backtrack. Even music from the show “Glee” will be involved.

With themes spanning a globe of ideas, there is something for everyone.

“It has a universal appeal,” Anna Gore, an advanced adult student, said. “This one’s going to be a lot of fun.”

Gore came up with the daydream idea in the fall when the advanced students started brainstorming their one show for the year. She liked the fact that everyone could relate to it in some way.

Canopy Studio shows are known for their wide range of entertainment value, but this show promises to deliver a diverse, playful and positive feel.

“Sometimes [the shows] can be really abstract or heavy,” Bowen said. “But I think people should come into this anticipating lightness and fun and a good sense of humor because we’re kind of poking fun at ourselves.”

Described as a mash-up of creativity, the show has experienced three months of tireless planning to showcase the talents of Canopy’s advanced students. But the real magic behind the pieces lies in the distinct personalities of the students themselves.

The people who choose to take classes at Canopy come from all walks of life and all ages, but like the pieces strung together to produce “Daydream,” they are united by a passion to express themselves creatively.

“It’s a big way to escape our lives, have a laugh, get creative, get a good workout in – it’s the perfect experience,” Bowen said. “There’s something special here that everyone wants a piece of or can connect to.”

With “Daydream,” the students and teachers at Canopy hope to let their audience escape life for a little while and find themselves in misguided superheroes or masked dancers or childhood dreams.

“The [pieces] are all plays on daydreams and how it’s different for everybody,” Bowen said. “But I think we touched on the hallmarks of daydreaming.”

WHAT: “Daydream” advanced student showcase

WHEN: Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m., Sunday matinee 4 p.m.

WHERE: Canopy Studio

COST: Students, $8, Adults, $10

MORE INFO: canopystudio.com