bench movement lesson 1

We started to create our bench movement based on the Croydon poem by Jo Spenser:

Uprooted

Croydon was never the same
after 65
when it was sawn in half.
Wellesley underpass like
a strewn underbelly,
gave the Motor vehicle its commensurate order.
Whitgift middle schools playing fields uprooted south
making way for the,
Whitgift Centre, old before its time,
like Dorian Gray in reverse.
I recall Grants department store closing in 1980.
presiding over an omen, we could not afford a niche,
only for it to become an entertainment venue.
Standardization became our
inalienable right
with the soul of the centre dying
death by a thousand cuts,
not helped by the recent riots.
But Croydon will survive.

in this fist lesson I worked with:
Maria, Amber, and Shannon

we decided to focus on the poem itself a lot which unfortunately meant we did not get very much done in the lesson as we were thinking too much about what movements we could do to each line of the poem rather than what the poem represented.
we therefore were not able to show the class anything that we had created as we kept changing the movement.