The show celebrated the park's 37-year history, featuring fireworks, music, lighting, lasers, and special effects kites set to new arrangements of music originating from some of the park's classic attractions, such as Journey Into Imagination, Spaceship Earth, Soarin', Tapestry of Nations and Universe of Energy.
The show was also made to celebrate the past, present, and future of Epcot.
[3] However, on January 10, 2023, Disney announced the show will temporarily return to Epcot beginning April 3, 2023 until December 4, 2023, as part of Disney's centennial celebration, replacing its successor, Harmonious, which then played its last show the night prior.
On December 31, 2019, this segment continued to be used after IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth, which is the tag returned on New Year's Eve 2020.
On July 4, 2023, the Independence Day tag as titled The Heartbeat of Freedom that was used from 2006 to 2019 for IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth and 2022 for Harmonious was used once again after the show's regular performance, which is part of The Walt Disney Company's centennial celebration.