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Show t I 0 I", The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday. November s inma' yMyyyl y,r yri f " ym f rty iymynarmn'rtiy Bringing a new kind of hero to the screen 2j(M1 Burstyn: North" have taken their toll too Tribune Stalf Writer .AZIZ A Middle F. a stern dance seminar and show, sjmn.sorod by Aiz. will he otfered Saturday. Hie seminar, featuring teachers A i and da Kushid. will run from 10 a m to a p ill at H21! K did South Registration is at it a m. Aida and ILe hid both students ot California teacher Jamila. will offer tormat ol both folkloric and more traditional cabaret styles of dance, all in the technique of lamila The show is scheduled at K p m at the Grecian Gardens, Ihlli S. State. will The performance feature Aida and Rashid, Ai and Nata-NarDance Company and guest .artists Sonjia and Nushaba a a "Hollywoods attitude is that when inoues s that make money, they say, Oh, fine, let do t.ie and women that.' So, if movies are made about audience responds to them, then you can make another movie about a woman. art-mad- Alice It was her role in BANFF, Alberta Doesn't Live Here Anymore that started Ellen Burslvn thinking about the sort of woman she wanted to poll i ay in future films "The situation is such that in order to have a career and be a woman in Hollywood, you have to make your Burstyn won an Academy Award playing Aiiee, a housewife and mother who tries her hand at singing and waitres.-,inwhen her husband dies, leaving her penniless w ith a young son. Along with the honor paid liy her peers, she now had some leverage in determining future projects. own work. The frustration has led Burstyn away from film and into videotape production, where she is directing and starring in projects she hopes to sell to cable television. The point of movies is communication," said the actress here recently, promoting her latest film Silence of the North." "When I do a movie, I find something that appeals to me, something I tee! I have to communicate. "The whole film process is too lengthy." she said about the trouble of raising financing, and then the and expensive film production process. Video is a less expensive and faster way to Didn't Share Experience "When 1 was working in television in the f0s, I found that most roles created for women were really about a man. He would be off dealing with the world, and when he came home at night, shed say, You must he tired dear. 1 really couldn't match that up with my experience and the women I knew. I like to xrtray human beings, not stereotypes. go. Burstyn has two projects in the works right now One is an interview with her acting teacher, Lee Strasberg. The other is a story about Margaret Fuller, great aunt of Buckminster Fuller, a 19th century woman who spent her life traveling around the world, working for a time as a foreign news correspondent. an industry where accusations of sex discrimination and stereotyping are common, Ellen Burstyn is a s champion of sorts. She has given many memorable female characters, characters she likes to call "heroes. In Not Interested in Subject Matter The actress doesn't go to the movies much these days, although she does see a lot of live theater. She says the subject matter of new movies simply doesnt interest her, and that they contain too much violence film-goer- "Dance But even a talented and popular actress like Burstyn encounters trouble getting a film made. It took her seven years to bring "Silence of the North" Phases twice into think violence has been fed to people so that in the world. Filmmakers should realize that the images they are creating are food for peoples brains. Fast-fooimages don't make for a healthy consciousness. I theres more violence theaters. d Excellent Performances a "Danee Phases, "Silence tells the true story of Olive Fredrickson, University of Utah Deand is set in Canada before and during the partment of Modern Depression. The film, based on Fredricksons book of Dance concert, wdl lie oflered Thursday at l.'il) the same name, is about a woman who survives a harsh winter in northern Canada with her trapper pm. and Friday and husband and baby girl. Mrs. Fredrickson, who is now Saturday at 8 p.m. at the HO years old, became a determined, Dance Building Theatre woman who provided for her family y on the U. of U. campus. when her husband was gone. The thesis concert is The film features excellent performances by being produced by Jae-qu- e Lynn Bell and Kim Burstyn as Olive, Tom Skerritt as her first husband Sullivan Stevens, both Walter Reamer, and Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent master's degree cartdi-date- s as John Fredrickson, Olives second and current in the modem husband. dance department. Burstyn brings up heroes again when asked what The program will feaher to Olive. ture ehoreography by attracted 3: V It can be argued that Burstyn has appeared in some extremely violent movies herself, the obvious example being "The Exorcist. But those graphic scenes of demonic possession are not what sticks in Burstyns mind. ... I saw The Exorcist as a fight between the forces of good and the forces of evil. And the good win in the single-handedl- visiting artist Clay mime by .Jerry Gardner and a performance by members of Children's Dance Theatre. end. v'; Years Take Their Toll Taliaferro, "Shes 0 iwyrn 19nl K, By Terry Ormo a heroic character set in an action story. stories about women are indoor stories. I loved Most the frontier, wilderness aspect. ? Ellen Burstyn and Tom Skerritt play a young couple living in the Canadian wilderness in "Silence of the North, based on the book of the same name. "The lives of women during that time were remarkable. I learned to appreciate it when I started doing westerns sitting on a covered wagon is the most uncomfortable thing! I began to think about their lives going across the country giving birth, burying family, overcoming the wilderness, never seeing another woman for months. In recent years, going has been tough for Ellen was promBurstyn. Her last film, "Resurrection, oted as some kind of occult, horror film. "Resurrection was actually a very movie about a woman who possessed healing powers. The ad campaign killed the film at the box office. The seven years required to make Silence of the down-to-eart- h That brings up a point which seems to thrill Ellen Burstyn: the metamorphosis that movies go through from script to final print, and how the finished product, in turn, is interpreted by an audience. The original idea for Resurrection was to portray a Jesus Christ on Earth as a woman. But it turned out to be a film about healing. Thats the thing about movies, you never know what they are until they are finished. "So I'm waiting to know what Silence of the North' is about. Maybe the audience will tell me. jm mcdonalds Our Style FitsYours. Receive $10 off any purchase of $30 or more with JM. McDonalds gift check! Your check may be used on regular or sale priced merchandise at any J M. 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