ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines how time is uniquely organized in digital performer training and assess what, if any, potential advantages there are to its mix of synchronous and asynchronous modes of learning. It focuses on relevant testimony from students studying on a three-week Massive Open Online Course, Physical Theatre: Vsevolod Meyerhold’s Biomechanics, delivered on the Future Learn platform in 2014, 2015 and again in 2018. Instead of the pressure to absorb and embody techniques in the moment, the platform’s support of asynchronous learning was a real boon for the student. Many training regimes rely on the residue of other documents to continue to enrich participants’ learning beyond the face-to-face encounter: notebooks, both published and personal, image banks and photo archives, blogs and anecdotal records. But the means by which training endures in the Massive Online Learning environment are palpably different to these more familiar forms.
