The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold

28BIOMECHANICS IN LOCKDOWNTeaching Meyerhold in the Age of COVID-19

Jonathan Pitches

DOI: 10.4324/9781003110804-42

Introduction

In the first few months of 2020, seismic movements in the bedrock of education and training were felt. The global Coronavirus pandemic, which started in December the previous year, spread from East Asia to Europe and the Americas by Spring 2020, necessitating governmental restrictions of movement (so called lockdowns) in countries on every continent except Antarctica. While the after-shocks of this pandemic will take many years to be fully understood, the impact on teaching and learning at that moment was instantaneous. Entire education systems migrated online almost overnight, triggering pedagogical innovations ...