Maxine has written articles for journals and peer-reviewed publications, and scripts for many performance projects. Most recently she edited the book “Writings on Collaboration” for Across Oceans publications. She was editor of Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists' Newsletter (1995-99) and wrote a bi-monthly column for the "Dance Current" magazine putting advocacy issues into context with everyday realities (1999-2000).
As 2010 artist-in-residence at University of Toronto, her UCDrama working group researched the need for an online communication resource about current modes of collaborative processes, revealing artists' "how do we do it". The online resource is now an ongoing project of Across Oceans (see research) .
Speaking appearances and conference presentations include:
PAEE Performng Arts Educators Exchange- Stratford Canada (collaboration or cooperation) June'11
Mills College-Oakland Mar’07 (Having a personal arts practice)
Univ. of California-Berkeley (Canadian art and globalism)
York Univ. Toronto (Cycles) Feb’07
UNESCO Dance Congress Oct’06 - Athens
World Dance Alliance Toronto July’06 (Audience’s creative process)
Moderator, The International Dance on Screen Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia’05
Society of Canadian Dance Studies Conference’03 (Training for choreography)
AustralAsian Piano Pedagogy Conference’03 (The music of dance)
International Network for Cultural Diversity Conference’01 (Grassroots of arts making)
Univ. California-Berkeley Canadian Studies Program
(On the creation of Canadian culture- 2000)
(Canadian Dance- "now, seriously..." 2001)
Canadian Dancers Transition Resource Centre (Several conferences and publications)
International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden Univ, Netherlands 2000 (Perceiving performance from a non-analytic perspective)
2000 CINARS international presenters’ forum (Arts and culture in the global economy: an overview of lobby efforts in favour of pluralism)
World Dance Alliance Conference, Manila’98 (The sum of the parts is not equal to the whole- against analysis in dance)
Pacific Bridges Conference, Univ. California-Davis ’95 (Breaking boundaries between performance and academia)
Philippine Dance Congress’94 (Trends and Avant garde in North American contemporary dance)