European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday february 13, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 3 couple brings african culture to pupils Tomc Oriff modern dancer touring Dodds schools in Germany by de Reavis staff writer Idar Oberstein Germany Inola a Dombo a Washe a Diane is Zulu for who is thai sitting on the chiefs Rock it s just one of Many expressions that tolled off the tongues of fifth graders from Idar Oberstein elementary school for a performance with South Africa Folklorist Paul Tracey. Tracey and his wife Susan a modern dancer Are touring department of de sense dependents schools in Germany through feb. 21 As part of the artists in residence program. During a week at Idar Oberstein tra Cey transformed the school with his Afri can tales Zulu language and Cornucopia of african instruments. He filled the Library where he held his lectures and demonstrations with an assortment of colourful characters a Panda Ngare the great Baboon Nyanga a the Python Nyathi the Buffalo Chi Pere the Hyena and Cha Punge the great Eagle. Tracey said the stories and some of the songs come from his father s collection. I was born in Durban South Africa but went to school in England. There i picked up the flute and guitar and the african Kalimba which the kids enjoyed so much today Tracey said. At 18, he returned to the Zimbabwe farm of his father who founded the International Library of african music. He also travelled throughout Africa making recordings published More than 2,000 Long playing records and wrote books on dancing and Folk tales Tracey said of his father Hugh. With his brother Andrew now a pro Fessor of african music at Rhodes uni Sas photo bed Ruvelt Paul and Susan Tracey perform be african tale of the old Man and the Snake for children and parents at Strassburg Cavern in Idar Oberstein Germany. Varsity in South Africa Tracey wrote wait a Minim a fast paced musical revue with satire sight gags dancing and mime. Two versions of the show toured several Southern african coun tries for two years London for two years Broadway for a year and Canada Australia and new Tracey and Susan Cambigue married in 1982, they joined forces teaching in schools around the United states for the performing tree Agency of los said his bookings have dropped off because of his White South african background. But ironically the apart Heid government does not recognize the Black culture Tracey teaches he said. So you see my father s work and my brother s and my own Are not the kind of thing the government particularly approves of. They Haven t hindered the re search to any great extent most of the Money for my father s work came fro the United states but neither do they promote it in any Idar Oberstein Tracey worked with the children on storytelling songs string figures and the complicated Afri can rhythms. Of the latter he said these kids have less problems with them than Stu dents of he also taught them to play the Kalimba his father s adaptation of the african Moira a kind of thumb Harp. Tracey s songs Are witty philosophical and self mocking. His Yucky song ends with the Singer looking in the Mir ror at the Luckiest sight of some have been used by Jim Henson creator . Susan Tracey a dancer and dance movement specialist has worked for the National endowment for the arts artists in schools program for 12 years. I used to be frustrated by the fact that i would go into a school excite or awaken the children to the possibilities of expression inherent in their bodies and then move on she said. "1 worried there d be no backup nothing to sustain that awakened interest but i was wrong. There Are teachers and sometimes parents who follow through on a child s interest and i now know that just a Brief encounter is enough to kindle the flame of Talent the artistic director of the free flight dance company said she tried in her week s encounter with the children of Neu Bruecke elementary school to show them what dance choreography and improvisation Are and How dance move ment differs from everyday movement. By the third Day the kids Are using the vocabulary and Able to understand the meaning of a choreographic prob Lem she said. The traces have also brought or will bring their workshops and performances to Dodds schools in Nuernberger Langen Munich Augsburg and Baum Holder. Author of Dune novels Frank Herbert Dies Madison wis. A science fiction writer Frank Herbert whose galactic epic Dune sold More than 12 million copies worldwide after being rejected by 20 pub Lishers has died at the age of 65. Herbert died tuesday at University of Wisconsin hos Pital and clinics said nursing supervisor Mary Long. The cause of death was not immediately determined she said. The Tacoma wash., native discovered late last year that he had cancer and had been going to Madison for treatment said Jack Doughty a Friend who worked wit hmm at the Seattle Post intelligencer and san Francisco examiner. The author returned to the University s Hospital about two weeks ago. Doughty said. Dune came out in 1965. The title is another name for a fictional desert planet Arnakis that is the Tau Oga lactic Battle and intrigue because it is the source of a Hallucinogen that prolongs life and is essential to space na8was0the first Book in what began As a trilogy and grew to six novels. Dune was later made into a translated into 14 languages it became a cult favorite. Nearly 20 years after Dune appeared critic John clue wrote in the Washington Post that Herbert s adroit mix of religion ecology space opera arabs giant Worms longevity drugs politics dynastic wars extrasensory Power and sex showed just How exhilarating the science fiction Romance of Concep Tual breakthrough could " Dune was full of new frontiers and Energy and one thing else a hero Paul atreides. Who Man aged to found both a religion and a dynasty of his very own. Herbert s subsequent instalments in the Dune series have been progressively More and More Given Over to a i Cedotal musings on atreides his Frank Herbert prescience his Messiah Hood and his posthumous Blue prints for running the Galaxy Clute s latest Dune novel charterhouse of Dune hit the Best seller list when it was published last year. Although the movie version of Dune appeared to great expectations in Christmas 1984, it Drew mostly bad reviews. Before the Success of Dune Herbert wrote suspense stories and articles and worked As a reporter on several newspapers including the Oregon statesman and the old Seattle Star. He was the Post intelligencer s education writer from 1969-1972, then devoted All his time to writ ing novels. His first novel dragon in the sea was published in 1955. His agent Ned Brown of Beverly Hills calif., said papers were signed tuesday to make Herbert s novel Green brain into a movie. Herbert studied psychology at the University of Washington. Jungian psychology which preaches that Universal symbols transcending language Are common to All cultures formed the foundation of Dune and the novel White Herbert who lived on Mercer Island wash., wrote More than two dozen books and was working on another Dune novel with his son Brian. Swedes outraged by study that monitored their behaviour Stockholm Sweden up out raged Stockholm residents born in 1953 bombarded the University of Stockholm say after learning a secret research project had closely monitored everyone m late re Arch project code named met tailed data on Sochu and sexual behaviour patterns of 15,117 peo in a Cage. Even if it is a unique scientific testimony it s not certain that people Are particularly interested in being unique in this Way said Jan Freese head of swe Den s watchdog data inspection Board. The head of the Metropolit project. University of Stockholm sociology professor Carl Gunnar Jansson 60, rejected the criticism. It s unbelievable that these people think they own information on them selves. What s grotesque is they now want to deprive me of my material after 20 years of work the professor was quoted As saying. It s not that strange that we mapped out the private lives of 15,000 people without telling we had asked their permission they would have Only been worried Unne Ces project has been secret since its inception and it was not until Sweden main daily Dagens Nyseter exposed it monday that the More than 15,000 subjects became aware of their unknowing 15,000 Are now recounting tales of countless tests and interviews of them selves and their families. The group recently responded to what it thought was a ratings Survey from swe Den s National broadcasting company. Yet 28 of the 43 questions concerned personal issues such As health problems drinking habits voting and religious affiliations and information on spouses. Jansson said he would not like to hand Over the files kept on any of the 15,117. But he can be forced to under swedish Law. This is a very sensitive subject. I have collected information on these people that not even they know about he said
