The World Is Big: The Baldwin Middle School Talent Show (2022) is a short documentary filmed in Guilford, Connecticut. Over the course of one month, I attended rehearsals, met with children participating in the show, and delved into the world of performance anxiety and catharsis in this small American town. The Baldwin Talent Show was the first in-person stage event most students had the opportunity of performing in after the Covid-19 outbreak in March 2020. In pursuing why these social rituals still exist and what it means to have an audience, the kids and I play, sing, and pirouette around these questions with no clear answers.