Dear Colleagues
I'm delighted to say that the University of Leeds is supporting a rerun of my massive open online course, now titled: Physical Theatre: Meyerhold and biomechanics. This course originally ran in March last year and was warmly received by thousands of students all over the world (from over 90 countries). It includes practical exercises, taught through animation and video lecture, theoretical and historical input and conversations (both live and recorded) with recognised theatre historians and practitioners working in the field of Physical Theatre(s) and Meyerhold.
This version of the course is a little leaner and will have a live discussion with Meyerhold historians Robert Leach and Amy Skinner (amongst others). It has also just recently been accredited by the CPD Certification service as 12 hours CPD if students are interested in this.
I'd be very grateful if you would be prepared to share this with your students and other networks. Theatre and disciplines of embodied learning generally are not well represented in the field of massive open online courses (and not just for the obvious reasons). And I hope this course can make a very small contribution to rebalancing that. But it is also great fun to be mixing with so many different people with different backgrounds, sharing one focus for learning for a short time.
* It runs for three weeks from January 26th 2015
* Is taught entirely online
* You can register in one click
* It takes up to 4 hours work a week, but this is up to the student
* And it's completely free (had I said that?)
You can register and find out more here:
https://www.futurelearn.com/
Many thanks for your time
Jonathan
Professor Jonathan Pitches
Chair in Theatre and Performance and PVAC Blended Learning Champion
School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
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