Folk Dances
p. 57 · Read in the full issue
In Colour
Beth Dean and Victor Carell, of Sydney, are known throughout the Pacific Islands for their knowledge of the arts. They directed the first South Pacific Arts Festival and will be directing the next. Beth’s book on Pacific Islands Art and Dance, written with the late Bruce Palmer, is still available, and meanwhile Beth and Victor are working on a larger book of South Pacific Dance, in colour, to be published this year by Pacific Pub lications, The new book is a companion volume to Folkloric in Australia, written by Beth Dean with full colour photographs by Stan Goik, and just published. This extremely attractive volume on art paper describes in words and pictures the folk dances and the folk music brought to Aus tralia by migrants from Europe and elsewhere. There is a great surge of interest developing in folk dancing in Australia and the future for amateur and professional groups is opening wide. The book does not include any South Pacific groups, but the pictures and descriptions will be of great interest to all Island people interested in dance.
(Folkloric In Australia. By Beth
Dean and Stan Goik. Pacific Publications, Box 3408 GPO, Sydney, $6.95.)