RESEARCH TEAM.
Dr. Balázs Simon. Researcher and Member of the Research Group
At the age of 22 was a member of the directors’ board at Vígszínház. He worked on the main Hungarian stages. He was among the founders of the independent Bárka Theatre and participated in establishing the Zsámbék Theatre Base.
After 40 premiers, he withdrew from the world of official theatres and turned towards studies of applied theatre, psychology and sociology. Within the framework of Utcaszínházi Alkotóközösség (www.utcaszak.hu), he researched in the most vulnerable segments of society possible theatre tools for development.
In 2016 acquired PhD degree with the “Flow in Theatre - The psychophysiological and behavioural scientific background of theatre”, publishing his first research
based on HR data collection. Since then he has gathered data on training, monodrama, improvisation and conventional performing art settings to understand the role of interaction synchrony in the process of theatre experience.