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Dr Matthew Reason

Senior Lecturer in Theatre, Head of Programme:  MA Studies in Creative Practice

Dr Matthew Reason is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre, Teaching Fellow and Head of Programme for MA Studies in Creative Practice at York St John University.

Matthew Reason is a researcher and theatre ethnographer, whose work explores audiences, liveness, performance representation and documentation and reflection. He is also interested in cultural policy, children's theatre, dance, live art and new playwriting.

He is currently working on a major three year AHRC funded project titled ‘Watching Dance: Kinesthetic Empathy’. This project explores dance audiences through the use of neuroscience and qualitative audience research and is a collaboration between the universities of Manchester, York St John, Glasgow and Imperial College London. See http://www.watchingdance.org/. Other activity includes ongoing explorations into how children watch live theatre, partly run in collaboration with Imaginate and due to be published in a new book, The Young Audience: Exploring and Enhancing Children’s Experience of Theatre (Trentham Books), in 2010.

His first book, Documentation, Disappearance and the Representation of Live Performance, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in September 2006. He has also published in journals such as New Theatre Quarterly, Performance Research, Dance Research Journal, Studies in Theatre and Performance and elsewhere. He has received research funding the AHRC, Scottish Executive Education Department and the Society for Theatre Research.

 

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