Professor Matthew Reason

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Professor Matthew Reason

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M.Reason@yorksj.ac.uk

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School of Performance & Media Production

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Professor of Theatre

Biography:

Matthew Reason is Professor in Theatre and Performance in the Faculty of Arts. His work engages with audiences, theatre for children, liveness, performance documentation and reflective practice. He has a particular specialism in developing research methodologies for qualitative audience research, including the use of creative (for example drawing or writing) based research techniques. He is also interested in cultural policy, contemporary performance practice and performance writing.

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Reason, Matthew (2018) Students as Arts Activists: Insights and analysis from a politically engaged assessment. ArtsPraxis, 5 (2). pp. 2-17.
Reason, Matthew (2018) Students as Arts Activists: Insights and analysis from a politically engaged assessment. ArtsPraxis, 5 (2). pp. 2-17.
Grosbras, Marie-Helene, Reason, Matthew, Tan, Haodan, Kay, Rosie and Pollick, Frank (2017) Subjective and Neurophysiological Perspectives on Emotion Perception from Dance. In: Karkou, Vicky, Oliver, Sue and Lycouris, Sophia, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook for Dance and Wellbeing. Oxford University Press, pp. 57-98
Reason, Matthew (2018) What Makes a Theatre Goer? Habitus, Identity and Interest Development in Adolescent Audiences to Shakespeare. In: Banks, Fiona, (ed.) Shakespeare: Actors and Audience. Bloomsbury
Reason, Matthew (2017) Drawing. In: Lury, Celia, Clough, Patricia, Chung, Una and Fensham, Rachel, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research. Routledge
Reason, Matthew (2017) Representing Soldiers to Soldiers through Dance: Authenticity, Theatricality and Witnessing the Pain of Others. Dance Research Journal, 49 (2). pp. 79-95.
Reason, Matthew and Heinemeyer, Catherine (2016) Storytelling, story-retelling, storyknowing: towards a participatory practice of storytelling. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 21 (4). pp. 558-573.
Reason, Matthew (2016) Archive, Empathy, Memory: The Resurrection of Joyce Reason. Memory Connection, 2 (1). pp. 89-110.
Jola, Corinne and Reason, Matthew (2016) Audiences’ Experience of Proximity and Co-Presence in live Dance Performance. In: Theatre and Cognitive Neuroscience. London, Bloomsbury
Reason, Matthew, Jola, Corinne, Kay, Rosie, Reynolds, Dee, Kauppi, Jukka-Pekka, Grobras, Marie-Helene, Tohka, Jussi and Pollcik, Frank (2016) Spectators’ aesthetic experience of sound and movement in dance performance: A transdisciplinary investigation. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 10 (1). pp. 42-55.

My Most Viewed

	Item title	Views
1	Theatre Audiences and Perceptions of ‘Liveness’ in Performance	1760
2	Storytelling, story-retelling, storyknowing: towards a participatory practice of storytelling	1460
3	The young audience: exploring and enhancing children’s experiences of theatre	759
4	‘Asking the audience: audience research and the experience of theatre’	723
5	Archive, Empathy, Memory: The Resurrection of Joyce Reason	674
6	Participations on Participation. Research the “active” theatre audience	667
7	Archive or memory?: the detritus of live performance	619
8	Young audiences and live theatre, Part 1: methods, participation and memory in audience research	573
9	Thinking Theatre: Enhancing Children’s Theatrical Experiences Through Philosophical Enquiry	561
10	Documentation, disappearance and the representation of live performance	530