The Year 8 Starburst Performers (up to 30 students), have been together as a group working closely with Mr Zemke since August 2016. Since that time they have become a very cohesive family-like group of singers, actors and dancers and their confidence to perform has greatly increased. This all came to an ultimate conclusion in the two performances of their show ‘No More’ on the 10 and 11 August. 
‘No More’ is an original musical production with powerful themes of bullying, the negative effects it creates and helpful insights for how to handle these type of situations. The show was punctuated by strong musical numbers which followed the overall themes with choreography of various dance genres. 
Ideas that were explored in the narrative of ‘No More’ related to cyberbullying, sharing personal stories, poetry and dance. These were expressed in conversations that happen in natural situations like the street, in a classroom, at school, at camp or online and were enhanced by dream sequences that guided the presented victims of the story with ways to alleviate their stress and help raise their confidence and self-esteem.
Our intention was to spread an empowering message, after reacting to the terrible statistics that we are constantly bombarded with related to the social disease of bullying that takes many forms. This type of abuse unfortunately continues to spread and be a very negative influence on our society but the group are still ‘hopeful’ that a positive change can happen and together we can all make a difference.
Here's a song from the show. As soon as the whole show is edited it will be added here too.
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