Associate ProfessorIan Maxwell

Project Opportunities

Title: Performances studies

Summary of opportunity:

Ian Maxwell is a graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts School of Drama, where he majored in Directing. Subsequent to that training, he embarked upon academic work at the University of Sydney, where he completed his PhD - an ethnography of Hip Hop culture in the suburbs of Sydney in the 1990s - in 1997.

Opportunity synopsis:

Research interests

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10,000 Miles Away: Grotowski in Australia

A project investigating the visits of Polish theatre director and teacher, Jerzy Grotowski, to Australia in the early 1970s, and the impact of those visits on Australian theatre and performance-making.

Sergeant Snow White

In 1943, a group of refugee aliens -most of them 'Dunera Boys', created and performed a revue titled Sergeant Snow White at the Union Repetory Theatre, Melbourne University. A collabroation with Jospeh Toltz and Seamas Sparks, this project investigates, in and through performance practice, this extraordinary work, the circumstances in which it was created, and its complex-and overlooked- legacy.