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1 Kath Bicknell Off the Saddle: Sport as a live(d) event How does performance shape our understandings of time, place, movement and memory? Through a series of case studies from mountain biking events in Australia and overseas, this project uses anthropological and phenomenological methods to rethink the relation between sport, performance and culture. Kath currently writes for Flow Mountain Bike. Also see her blog: link Michael Cohen Performance as Artefact: Objectification and Agency in International Spectacle Supervisors: Lowell Lewis and Jenny Lindsay Michael is a founding member of Theatre Kantanka and now the event manager for the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority Teresa Crvenkovic 2005 Dancing in Koleda's Circle: A Performative Analysis of Croatian Folk Dance in Australia Robin Dixon Spaces and Places of Plautine Theatre Supervisors: Ian Maxwell Paul Dwyer 2000 On Shifting Ground: Challenges to the Theory and Practice of Theatre of the Oppressed Paul is now a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Performance Studies at the University of Sydney Russell Fewster A Rehearsal Analysis of the Production of The Blind Giant is Dancing by Neil Armfield and the Company B Ensemble Andrew Filmer 2006 Backstage Spaces: The Place of the Performer Supervisors: Gay McAuley and Paul Dwyer Andrew is now a Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at Aberystwyth University, Wales Laura Ginters 2000 History and Her Story: Georg Buchner's Dantons Tod on Page and Stage (with Germanic Studies) Supervisors: Gay McAuley and Udo Borgert (Germanic Studies) Laura is now a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Performance Studies at the University of Sydney

2 John Glynn Kathakali: A Study of the Aesthetic Processes of Popular Spectators and Elitist Appreciators Engaging with Performances in Kerala (with Anthropology) Supervisors: Tim Fitzpatrick and Vivienne Kondos (Anthopology) Stuart Grant Gathering to Witness Supervisors: Ian Maxwell and Lowell Lewis Stuart is now Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at Monash University Joanne Harris Historical Impressions: Ballet in a Nutshell the Athletes and Dancers Company the Dance Company (NSW) ] Supervisor: Amanda Card Janice Hinckfuss Rethinking English for Academic Purposes: Towards a Performance-Centred Pedagogy Supervisor: Paul Dwyer This thesis is an analysis of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programmes, typically offered to international students as a pathway into university study. The arguments are based on ethnographic participant-observation of classroom practice at three different (de-identified) institutions: Dawkin University in Australia, Oldton University in the USA and Claxted University in the UK. The selection of these sites for fieldwork is based on the fact that they represent, broadly speaking, three of the main theoretical traditions that currently inform the way genres of academic writing are taught in EAP programs: Systemic Functional Linguistics (most prominent in Australian practice), The New Rhetoric (most closely associated with university writing programs in the USA) and English for Specific Purposes (a strong influence on academic and professional writing programs in the UK). Nicholas Hope Landscape and Performance Supervisors: Ian Maxwell and Paul Dwyer Daniel Johnston 2008 Active Metaphysics: Phenomenological Readings of Acting Daniel is currently teaching with the Department of Performance Studies at the University of Sydney and at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) Camilla Ah Kin A Chance Gathering of Strays: the Australian theatre family Supervisors: Laura Ginters and Ian Maxwell Kathryn Leader 2009 Trials and performance Supervisors: Laura Ginters and Paul Dwyer Kate is currently studying postgraduate law at Birkbeck, the University of London

3 Pauline Manley Opening the Pod: Involution and Dehiscence in Contemporary Dance Ian Maxwell 1997 Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes: Hip Hop Down Under Comin' Upper Ian is now Associate Professor with the Department of Performance Studies at the University of Sydney Celina McEwen 2008 Investing in Play: Expectations, Dependencies and Power in Australian Practices of Community Cultural Development Supervisors: Paul Dwyer and Lowell Lewis Celina is now a Project Officer at the Griffith Institute of Higher Education Glen McGillivray Theatricality: A Critical Genealogy Glen is now a Lecturer in the Department of Performance Studies at the University of Sydney and in the School of Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney Paul Moore 2005 Longing to Belong: Trained Actors' Attempts to Enter the Profession Paul is the Artistic Director of the theatre company AnNua in Derry, Ireland Aine de Paor Opunk sky Theatre Company and their contribution to the Sydney Theatre Scene in the 1990s Marion Potts 1995 What Empty Space?: Text and Space in the Australian Mainstream Rehearsal Process Kate Rossmanith Making Theatre-Making: Rehearsal Practice and Cultural Production Supervisors: Gay McAuley and Paul Dwyer Kate is now a Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Macquarie University Jason Saltearn The History of Sacrifice: Theatres of Sacrifice and the Planetary Struggle for Human Dignity Supervisor: Tim Fitzpatrick

4 Kerrie Schaefer 1999 The Politics of Poaching in Postmodern Performance: A Case Study of the Sydney Front's Don Juan in Rehearsal and Performance Kerrie is now a Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter Mark Seton Forming (In)Vulnerable Bodies: Intercorporeal Experiences in Actor Training in Australia Mark is an independent scholar, consultant in Higher Education Creative and Performing Arts, and a guest lecturer at Wesley Institute and the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS). Justine Shih Pearson In the Inbetween: embodying the intercultural in performance Supervisors: Amanda Card and Ian Maxwell Caught in a space between a body s habitual moves and something new, we perform different, sometimes unexpected manoeuvres. Asked to walk in the shoes of another, or embody a new form of cultural performance, or occupy the transit spaces of global mobility, the normally second nature way in which we perform our bodies gives way to more fluid, multiple, and confusing performances of self. These inbetween moves, these moments of being out of place or even out of body, are examined in this thesis as performances of interculturality. Tracing developments in intercultural performance scholarship within the broader performance studies field, I argue for greater accounting of what it is, in embodied terms, to perform in the inbetween. Justine is currently the Acting Director of Critical Path Lono Simatupang Play and Display: An Ethnographic Study of reyog Ponorogo in East Java, Indonesia Supervisors: Jenny Lindsay and Lowell Lewis Lono is now a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia Peter Snow Imaging the In-Between: Training Becomes Performance in Body Weather Practice in Australia Peter is now a Professor at Monash University in The Centre for Theatre Jeffrey Stewart Significantly Sentimental and the Possibility of Love Liza-Mare Syron 2013 DArts Actor Training in Australia and the Indigenous Student Experience: Traversing Cultural and Pedagogical Domains Supervisors: Laura Ginters and Paul Dwyer Yana Taylor Doctors of Presence: Tadashi Suzuki's Training Methods in Sydney Contemporary Performance Yana is now a lecturer at The Centre for Theatre at Monash University

5 Kerry Williams 1994 Joking Apart: Modalities of Feminist Humour in Performance Supervisor: Dr Terry Threadgold