Series 04: Beth Dean and Victor Carell subject files, 1933-1992

MLMSS 7804/Boxes 7-10, 12-32
MLMSS 7804/Box 11X

series

1933 - 1992

457360

4.16 metres of textual material (25 boxes, 1 outsize box)

1973; Aboriginal Arts in Australia : National Seminar. Includes: seminar program; papers presented by Kuru Waaka, E Lester and A Grey, and Kath Walker; Beth Dean's notes; photographs. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/7)

1992; Aesthetics & Visual Literacy Accreditation. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/7)

1984-1985; 'John Antill 80th Birthday Year Celebrations'. Includes: correspondence; copy of Beth Dean's eulogy to John Antill 31 March 1985; Dean and Carell's heavily annotated copies of minutes of meetings of the Tribute to John Antill - 80th Birthday Year Committee; newscuttings and programs. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/7)

Undated; 'Artifacts given to Macleay Museum'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/7)

1964-1971; 'Arts Council'. Various collaborations by Beth Dean (as choreographer and prima ballerina) and Victor Carell (as tour director) with the Arts Council of Australia. Includes correspondence, tour schedules, programs and newscuttings. Correspondents include Dorothy Helmrich and Hugh Hunt. Note: See also Subject File Corroboree. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/7)

1971; 'Australasian Dance magazine'. Includes correspondence, articles submitted, and mock-ups of the magazine's first issue. Correspondents include Robert Helpmann, Clifford Hocking, Martha McGee, Max Oldaker, Noel Pelly, Marie Rambert, Helen Roosenschoon, Ted Shawn and Peggy van Praagh. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/7)

1957-1977; The Australian Ballet. Includes: correspondence; newscuttings; press releases; newsletters; photographs. Correspondents include Peter F Bahen, Suzanne Davidson, Maina Gielgud, Marilyn Jones, Noel Pelly, Peggy van Praagh and Margaret Scott. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/8)

1959-1964; 'Australian Ballet and Theatre Arts Studio and Australian Dance Theatre Company'. Includes: correspondence; newscuttings; programs relating to Beth Dean's Ballet School at Parramatta; information concerning the Beth Dean Scholarship Fund and performances by the Australian Dance Theatre directed and produced by Beth Dean and Victor Carell. Correspondents include Hugh Hunt from The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust and Beatrice Davis from Angus & Robertson (Publishers) Pty Ltd. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/8)

1963-1991; The Australian Ballet School. Correspondents include Margaret Scott. Includes Prospectus concerning the establishment of the School.

1957-1987; Australian Broadcasting Commission. Correspondence, television scripts, newscuttings and programs relating to: talks and performances by Beth Dean and Victor Carell on ABC radio; other projects including: television productions of the ballets Gday Digger, The first boomerang and The birth of the waratah; the opera Samson and Delilah; the documentary Dancers of Mexico. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/8)

1950-1951; Australian tour. Solo dance, song recitals and lecture demonstrations by Beth Dean and Victor Carell. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/8)

1952-1956; Australian tours. Solo dance, song recitals and lecture demonstrations by Beth Dean and Victor Carell. Includes: correspondence; programs; newscuttings. Correspondents include Leslie Greener from the Adult Education Board, Tasmania. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/8)

1976-1977; Australian Volunteers Abroad Briefing Course. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/9)

1955-1975; Brere Awol. Includes letters received and newscuttings. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/9)

1965-1966; 'Bal Caron Trio'. Includes correspondence; programme; newscuttings; photograph. Correspondents include Clete Ball and Heather Ball. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/9)

1957-1974; Ballet Folklorico de Mexico. Includes: correspondence; program; newscuttings; photograph. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/9)

1966-1969; Ballet Rambert. Correspondent: Norman Morrice. (MLMSS 7804/9)

1971-1976; Banaban Dance Group. Includes: correspondence; Beth Dean's notebook annotated 'Rabi. Items chosen from new choreography & new ideas - legends & plays'; loose notes; report on visit to Rabi; program ideas; newscuttings; programs. Correspondents include Polly Binder and Polly Elwyn Jones. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/9)

1969; 1993; Bill Baxter Retrospective Photographic Exhibition. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/9)

Undated; Biographical notes general. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/9)

1956; 'Boy Friend programmes & newspaper cuts'. Includes correspondence. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/9)

1957-1974; Ballet of the South Pacific at the 1970 Captain Cook Bicentenary Celebrations. Includes: correspondence, particularly with governments relating to funding proposals for participation of Aboriginal Australians and Maori dancers; contracts; financial records; Beth Dean's choreographic notebook and loose notes for Aboriginal dance; reports; costume designs; photographs; newscuttings; general information on the Cook Islands. Correspondents include Jean Battersby, Douglas Belcher, Nathan Clark, A O Dare, R J Denham, John A Fallon, John Gorton, C F Gribble, N J Glover, Stephen Hall, Stuart Inder, Asher Joel, J M McEwan, Alice M Moyle, George Oldham, Malcolm Peters, Walter Prude, Robert Sturgess, G J Symons, Terry Vaughan and R W Waters. Note: see also subject file for Cook Islands National Arts Theatre. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/9)

1960-1970; Captain Cook Bi-Centenary Celebrations. Material relating to performances of John Antill's ballets G'day digger and Song of Hagar (world premiere) at Gunnamatta Park, Sutherland. Includes correspondence, notes, newscuttings and programs. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/12)

1974-1991; 'Christmas at the Opera House'. Includes: correspondence; production scripts; newscuttings; programs. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/12)

1952-1989; 'Bill Constable Folder'. Includes: letters from Constable, and material acquired by Dean and Carell after Constable's death. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/12)

1969; Constitutional Celebrations in Raratonga. Draft book of rules for dance and song competitions. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/12)

1962-1975; 1992; 'Cook Islands Competition'. Includes: Audition and Adjudication papers for the annual Constitution Celebrations Competition; general information about the Cook Islands and about the establishment of the Cook Islands National Arts Theatre. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/12)

1968-1975; 1985; Cook Islands National Arts Theatre (CINAT). Includes correspondence relating to: negotiations with Raratongan Prime Minister concerning the formation of CINAT; participation of CINAT in the Ballet of the South Pacific, staged at the 1970 Captain Cook Bi-Centenary Celebrations in Sydney with later provincial tours; later negotiations with Hurok Concerts Inc., New York relating to a proposed World Tour; letters of support and appreciation of the Ballet of the South Pacific. Also includes: Beth Dean's research notebooks 1969, 1971 and 1975; loose notes; choreography notes for Aboriginal dance at the Ballet of the South Pacific; contracts and financial records; newscuttings. Correspondents include Michael Edgley, N J Glover, Percy Henderson, Noel Pelly and Walter Prude. Note: See also subject file for Ballet of the South Pacific. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/13)

1963-1982; 'Coombs Grants 1970-71'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/13)

1950-1970; Corroboree. Includes newscuttings and programmes relating to: The World Premiere performance of the ballet Corroboree at the Empire Theatre, Sydney (1950); Royal Gala Season (choreographed by Beth Dean) performed at the Tivoli Theatre, Sydney in the presence of H M Queen Elizabeth II and H R H the Duke of Edinburgh (1954); performances at the Festival of Perth by the Australian Contemporary Dance Company (directed by Ronne Arnold) (1970). Also includes: photograph of performers Beth Dean, Vija Vitra, Ruth Galene and Helene Ffrance with John Antill, taken backstage after a performance at the Tivoli Theatre, Sydney, February 1954, with explanatory notes by Beth Dean on back; preliminary Lighting Plot for the 1954 performance. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/13)

1978-1999; 'Cultural Centre and Marketplace of Fiji'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/13)

1951-1993; Dance companies, ballet schools and related organisations : Australia. Information compiled on: Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre; Aboriginal Theatre Foundation/Aboriginal Dance Company; Athletes and Dancers Co; Australasian Teachers Contemporary Dance Association Limited; Australian Association for Dance Education; Australian Contemporary Dance Company; Australian Dance Theatre; Australian Council for the Arts; Ballet Australia; Bangarra Dance Theatre Australia Limited; British Ballet Australasia and National Dancing Association of Australasia; The Dance Company (NSW); Dalman Dance Theatre; The Federal Association of Teachers of Dancing (Aust. & NZ); Freelance Dance Company; Joan Halliday School of Ballet; The Lorraine Norton Ballet School; The New Dance Theatre; The Queensland Ballet; Jan Rebel Ballet Company; Sydney Ballet Group; The Sydney Dance Development Centre; Sydney Festival Ballet Company; Theatre Action (Francis Batten); Triana-Vargas Ballets Flamenco. Includes related correspondence, notes, newsletters, newscuttings, press releases and photographs. Note: See also subject file for The Australian Ballet. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/14)

1959-1978; Dance companies, ballet schools and related organisations : overseas. Information compiled on: The American Dance Guild; The Association of Ballet and Opera Trust Boards of New Zealand; Les Ballets Africains; Bayanihan Philippines Dance Co.; Classical Ballet Center; The Cullberg Ballet; Erick Hawkins Dance Company; El Sali Madrid Flamenco troupe; High School of Music and Art, New York; Houston Ballet; Leningrad Maly Theatre Company; Mazowsze Polish Song and Dance Company; Ohio Ballet; Pearl Primus and her Company; Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre; Prospect Theatre Company of Great Britain; Regolamento della Seuola di Ballo; The Repertory Dance Theatre; The Royal Ballet School; The Royal Swedish Ballet; School of American Ballet; The Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company; Toronto Dance Theatre. Includes correspondence, booklets, newscuttings, photographs and programs. Correspondents include Birgit Cullberg, Dorothy Lysaght and Norman Morrice. See also separate subject files for Banaban Dance Group; Cook Islands National Arts Theatre (CINAT); Dance Theatre of Fiji. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/15)

1969-1977; Dance Concert/The Dancers' Club (Call No.: 7804/16)

1973-1979; 1989; 'Dance Theatre of Fiji' [National Dance Theatre of Fiji]. Includes: correspondence; general newscuttings; newscuttings for the Company's tour of the United Kingdom; programs; Beth Dean's notebook titled 'Dance Theatre of Fiji Rehearsals 1973'. Correspondents include Ligavici Kautoga, Manoa Rasigatale, Madeleine and Graham Tidmarsh. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/16)

1966; 1974; Dancers of Bali. Includes: correspondence; program; newscuttings; photographs. Correspondents include photographer M Bouton. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/16)

1933-1952; Early career: Beth Dean. Includes newscuttings and programs concerning Beth Dean's performances in American productions of HMS Pinafore, Blossom Time, Folies Bergere and the Theodore Kosloff Russian Ballet. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/16)

1937-1950; Early career: Victor Carell. Includes newscuttings and programs concerning Victor Carell's singing career in Australia, Europe, Canada and the USA, including The Royal Canadian Navy production Meet the Navy. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/16)

1944-1950; Early careers: Beth Dean and Victor Carell. Includes newscuttings, programs and photographs for American productions in which both Beth Dean and Victor Carell participated, including war effort concerts, and the musicals Countess Maritza, Madam Du Barry, The Merry Widow, Rose Marie and the Waltz King. Also includes newscuttings and programs for the Australian and New Zealand tour of Annie get your gun. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/16-17)

1953-1970; Eisteddfod adjudication. Material relating to Beth Dean's adjudication at the City of Sydney Eisteddfod, the City of Wollongong Eisteddfod, The City of Parramatta Eisteddfod, the Goulburn Eisteddfod Society and the Ipswich Junior Eisteddfod. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/17)

1975; Exhibition: ballet shoes. Includes: biographical notes on the ballerinas Beth Dean, Nina Federova, Dame Margot Fonteyn (de Arias), Beryl Grey, Rowena Jackson, Marilyn Jones, Natalia Makarova, and Maya Plisetskaya; exhibition captions and other information about the ballet shoes exhibited. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/17)

1988-1992; 'Fiji National Trust correspondence'. Correspondents include Justin Francis and Biranda Singh. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/17)

1957-1979; 'Film script ideas etc.'. Correspondence, running scripts and newscuttings concerning proposals by Victor Carell for and shooting of various films, many in Papua New Guinea including: a film on Parramatta; Let me sow love; I, Brere, Councillor; The peacemakers; The eye of the Dawn; Me Morrika; The first hundred years; In thy hands; Wanderers in the Sun. Correspondents include Ignatius Doggett, Nick Dowling, A P Elkin, J Huon de Navnancourt and W Dunphy. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/18)

1966-1969; First Australian Catholic Films Festival. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/18)

1972-1973; 'First Christchurch Festival of Arts'. Royal Hunt of the sun, choreographed by Beth Dean. Includes correspondence, newscuttings, choreography, programmes. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/18)

1979; First USA International Ballet Competition. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/18)

1957-1959; 'Fonteyn Publicity'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/18)

1971-1972; 'Adi Laisa Ganilau Memorial Fund. Beth Dean's recital'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/18)

1951-1968; 'Greco'. Spanish arts study programs conducted by Jose Greco. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/18)

1985; Hawaii. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/18)

Undated; Health and wellbeing. Notes on lectures/seminars attended. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/18)

1955; 1960; 'House Plans'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/18)

1954-1956; Jedda. Includes: correspondence; contract for Beth Dean to train and supervise the standin for corroboree sequence. Correspondents include Charles Chauvel. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/19)

1987; 'Caroline Jones'. Includes correspondence, notes and questionnaire. Correspondents include Caroline Jones. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/19)

1966-1969; 'Peter Keiha's Maori Theatre'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/19)

1971; 1991-1993; The Kings School, Parramatta. Correspondents include H D Hake and Jonathan Persse. Includes: booklet - A brief outline concerning The Kings's School Parramatta, by P J Yeend, which bears the annotation 'Presented to Beth Dean as a small memento of her visit to Friday Forum. The King's School Parramatta. March 19, 1971'. Also includes Beth Dean's reviews of, and programs for plays and musicals produced by the School. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/19)

1967-1969; 'Kukaitcha. Technical Papers, Letters etc.' [The Aboriginal ballet Kukaitcha was performed at the 1968 Cultural Olympics in Mexico, held in conjunction with the staging of the Olympic Games. Kukaitcha formed part of the Ballet of the five continents. Scenery: Russell Drysdale; costume design: Desmonde Downing; choreography: Beth Dean; based on a story by Victor Carell]. Includes: correspondence; lighting plot; costume list; press releases; choreographic and other notes; programs; newscuttings. Correspondents include Nigel Bowen, Desmonde Downing, J G Gorton, Stephen Hall, Amalia Hernandez, Dudley McCarthy, Charles P Mountford, Alice M Moyle and Ian Ross. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/19)

1971; 'Kukaitcha Film ideas'. Includes correspondence, notes and synopsis for proposed film Kukaitcha, the Emu Man. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/19)

1970-1988; 'Letters to Lloyd Martin re projects at Opera House 1988 etc.'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/19)

1974-1992; Levuka. Includes: correspondence concerning the formation of the Levuka Historical & Cultural Society and related projects, and the making of the documentary film Levuka, Birthplace of a Nation; minutes of meetings; constitution; filmscript; typescript articles on Levuka written by Victor Carell; newscuttings; photographs; background information. Correspondents include Fergus Clunie, Bhupendra Kumar, Jeffrey Melrose, Dora Patterson, Mollie Stinson, J B Toganivalu and Leonard Usher. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/20)

1974-1976; 'List of artefacts at OH etc.' (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/20)

1991; 'Material re 17th Pacific Science Congress' [XVII Pacific Science Congress. Towards the Pacific Century: The challenge of change]. Correspondents include Karen L Nero and Barbara Smith. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/21)

1954-1955; 'Miscellaneous Theatre People'. Includes information on Lucette Aldous, Winifred Atwel, Eunice Gardiner, Hugh Hunt, Beverley Rowles and Margot Thomas. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/21)

1961-1976; Igor Moiseyev. Includes correspondence, newscuttings and programmes, mainly concerning the 1968 Australian visit of The Moiseyev Dance Company of Russia and the 1969 visit of the 40 Stars of the Russian Classical Ballet (under Moiseyev's artistic direction). Correspondents include Igor Moiseyev and Greta Campbell McGregor. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/21)

1972; Mornington Island Lardill Dancers. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/21)

1988; 'My tribute to Leonie Nicholas [Edna Leone Nicholas] at her funeral 1988'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/21)

1955; 'National Opera'. Includes correspondence, contracts, newscuttings and program for Beth Dean's production of Die Fledermaus for the National Opera of Australia. Correspondents include Clarice M Lorenz. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/21)

1966-1972; 'N.Y. City Ballet. History etc.' (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/21)

1960; 'N.Z. Tour 1960. Beryl Grey & Bryan Ashbridge'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/21)

1970-1971; North Side Arts Festival Award presentation to Dame Margot Fonteyn. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/21)

1962; 'Notes and pieces on Bali'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/22)

Undated; 'Oo la la staging details...'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/22)

Undated; 'Original Scripts of "Song Stories from Down Under" by Charles Buttrose'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/22)

1951-1952 Overseas tour. Solo dance, song recitals and lecture demonstrations by Beth Dean and Victor Carell in Europe, Canada, America and New Zealand. Includes: letters of introduction to Australian officials overseas, and other correspondence; programs; explanatory notes; lighting cues; permit for a performance at Teatro Communale, Sulmona, Italy. Correspondents include Arthur A Calwell, F M Forde, Eric J Harrison, A Kellway, P A McBride, Norman Makin and Kevin Murphy. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/22)

1963-1964; 'Pageant of Nationhood'. Includes: correspondence; reports; technical running sheets; film scripts; choreographic notes; programs; reviews. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/22)

1978; 'Papua New Guinea Film Project 1978'. Correspondence and preliminary script for the film Man Bilong Pipel. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/22)

1988; Parramatta Performing Arts Centre. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/23)

?1940-1988; 'Bob Pearce'. Letters received from Australian sculling champion Harry Robert "Bobby" Pearce; newscuttings; correspondence between Victor Carell and Mike Willesee concerning the possible inclusion of a segment on Pearce in the TV program Mike Willesee's Australians. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/23)

1954; 'Preliminary proposals for the formation of a new Ballet Co.'. Correspondents include Charles E Green from Consolidated Concerts Corporation, New York, and Hugh Hunt, Director of The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/23)

1959; 'Princess Alex write-ups & programmes' concerning the world premiere of the ballet Burragarong Dreamtime. A fantasy of the birth of the Waratah and the Boomerang, performed in the presence of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent. Includes correspondence, newscuttings and programs. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/23)

Undated; 'Production idea for Aboriginal film by Victor Carell'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/23)

1970; 'Program & Newspaper Reviews Bolshoi Ballet...'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/23)

1968-1976; Proposal for International Ballet Competition, Sydney, January 1976. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/23)

1969-1980; Proposed trip to Central Australia, 1971. Correspondence with Alice M Moyle, discussing arrangements to include an experienced dance notationist, and comparing the Laban and Benesh methods of dance and movement notation. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/23)

1954-1983; 'Pub. Pieces about Abo[rigine]s & Anthropologists etc.'. Includes booklet: Friendship with South-East Asia, by T G H Strehlow, inscribed: 'With warm regards, T.G.H. Strehlow'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/23)

1980-1981; 'Queens Birthday Honours'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/23)

1972-1991; 'Manoa Rasigatale'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/23)

Undated; 'Report to U.S.P. [University of the South Pacific] fr. 10th Anniversary Celebration'. Correspondents include L F Brosnahan, M Griffith and Len Usher (Call No.: MLMSS/7804/24)

1949-1953; Research trip - Central Australia. Includes: correspondence; Fulbright and Guggenheim Foundation Applications for funds for further research into the dance of the Australian Aborigines; permits; newscuttings. Correspondents include Arthur A Calwell, A Capell, A P Elkin, Trudy Goth, Jothan Johnson, Charles Mountford, Kevin Murphy, T G H Strehlow, Ruth Underhill, Richard A Waterman and H M Wormington. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/24)

1974; Royal Tahitian Dance Company. Correspondents include Dorothy Lysaght. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/24)

1983-1984; 'Royal Viking Star. Lecture Material etc.'. Includes correspondence, photographs and research and lecture notes for talks on Tahiti, Cook Islands, New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Australian Aborigines, and Papua New Guinea. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/24)

1970-1971; The Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Correspondents include Arnold Spohr. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/24)

1974; 'Savages Play at Ensemble'. Beth Dean's choreographic notes, programs and research notes concerning the Ensemble Theatre production of the play Savages, by Christopher Hampton. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/24)

1984; School Reunion. Fiftieth reunion celebration, East High Class of 1934, Denver, USA. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/24)

1071-1973; Se-Ni-Vau-Vula Fijian drama group. Includes first draft of a translation of Ligavici Kautoga's play Se Ni Vau Vula, or The White Telicus Flower'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/25)

1947; 1968-1984; Ted Shawn. Includes: correspondence between Ted Shawn (founder and artistic director of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival) and Victor Carell concerning the possibility of performances by Australian Aboriginal dancers at Jacob's Pillow; photographs; booklets; newscuttings. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/25)

1974-1985; Shell National Folkloric Festival. Includes correspondence; choreographic notes; promotional material; photographs; programs; newscuttings. For First National Folkloric Festival see subject file for Sydney Opera House Opening. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/25)

1976; 1990-1991; 'Jennifer Shennan'. Includes: 'Report etc. on Laban notation work being done in New Zealand'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/25)

1970-1992; South Pacific Festivals of Arts. Includes: correspondence; minutes of meetings; reports; film script; newsletters; newscuttings; programs; photographs. Correspondents include Jean Battersby, Raymond Burr, Bengt Danielsson, Nick N Dowling, Edward J Hellmich, Geoffrey Henry, Jon Jonassen, Kauraka Kauraka, Robert Langdon, Duncan McIntyre, Barbara Smith, Patricia Turner, Tamarii Tutangata, Tess van Sommers, Mali Voi, Albert Wendt and Carl Wolz. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/26-28)

1969-1974; Society of Dance Arts (SODA). (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/25)

1987-1988; South Pacific Gala at World Expo 88. Correspondents include Keithie Saunders. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/25)

1973-1978; 'South Pacific information'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/25)

1977; The Strehlow Research Foundation. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/28)

1976; 'Sydney College of the Arts'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/28)

1978-1984; Sydney Dance Company. (Call No.: MLMDD 7804/28

1957; 1968; 1972-1975; 'Sydney Opera House Opening'. Includes: correspondence; reports; publicity material and press releases; photographs; newscuttings; programs, brochures and booklets, relating to the South Pacific and Folkloric performances. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/29-30)

1961-1979; Trips to Russia 1969, 1973. Includes: correspondence, newscuttings, programs and draft articles concerning the International Ballet Competitions held in Moscow in 1969 and 1973, attended by Beth Dean. Also includes: draft proposal for an International Ballet Competition to be held in the Sydney Opera House in 1976; (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/30-31)

1968-1969; 'Unesco Seminar for Drama Theatre & Music' [Australian National University UNESCO Seminar on Support for the Performing Arts]. Includes: correspondence; conference program; information papers on the performing arts; background papers prepared by Sir Robert Helpmann, Peggy van Praagh, Beth Dean, Lauren Martyn, Robert Quentin, John Sumner, Doris Fitton, John McCallum, Lawrence Hayes, K W Tribe, John Hopkins, Professor Donald Peart, Stefan Haag, Roger Covell, A Francis, David Peters, Dorothy Helmrich and Terry Vaughan; conference papers. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/31)

1978-1979; 'University of Waterloo Lecture: Resurgence of Dance Arts in the Sth Pacific'. Includes correspondence; manuscript and typescript lecture drafts for Beth Dean's presentation at the Seventh Dance in Canada Conference at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; background information. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/31)

1960-1963; USSR-Australia Society. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/32)

1960-1966; 'Waratah Festival'. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/32)

1967; WEA [Workers Educational Association] lectures. Includes correspondence, lecture subject sheets, class questionnaires for The Many Worlds of Dance. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/32)

1962; World study tour. World trip studying regional dance. Includes correspondence and newscuttings. (Call No.: MLMSS 7804/32)