More than 500 audience members were given a tour of the United States and West Indies without leaving their seats Saturday night as Boston University dance group Soulstice presented its fourth annual performance at the Tsai Performance Center.

With help from BU and local dance groups, Soulstice — a hip-hop and reggae group established in 2002 – performed step dance, poetry readings and songs.

“The Truth Tour: Destination Rhythm” featured performances by BU dance groups Fusion, Tru Sole, Unofficial Project, Vibes and X-Ception and included a performance from Unyted Stylz, a national dance organization.

“When I watch other performing groups to try and find potential guests for our show, I look for a clean, crisp, high-energy, original performance that can make me pause from amazement in the middle of their routine,” said Soulstice Vice President Shameka Gregory, a College of Arts and Sciences junior, in an email before the show.

Singing gospel was Major Johnson-Finley, a Berklee College of Music alum who goes by the alias Major Choirboy. Berklee senior Candace Coles sang original R’B songs.

Sargent Health and Rehabilitation Sciences senior Natasha Noel read poetry celebrating femininity and sympathizing with teenage pregnancy.

“You see a bunch of people coming into . . . creative self-expression through dance, and I think that’s wonderful . . . seeing so many people sharing that same interest,” said Nella Mupier, 25, of Boston.

A self-choreographing dance group, Soulstice focuses on hip-hop and West Indian dance. Since the group’s founding, it has steadily gained popularity, Gregory said.

“We are becoming a lot more well-known in the Boston area and beyond and receiving a lot more invitations to perform,” she said.

Timothy Gaull, a Boston Architectural College freshman, said he appreciated how the performers expressed their different cultures through dance.

“The energy, all the different people, it’s a lot of fun, and dance is a good way to be a part of your culture and take part of somebody else’s culture,” he said.

Coles said college dance groups such as Soulstice foster friendships and develop students’ personalities.

“I wasn’t expecting to see as much talent as I did,” she said. “When you go to universities that aren’t arts colleges, you always assume, like, ‘Oh, they really want to be doctors,’ but these were really talented people, really talented young people.”