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Show DESERET NEWS, pens Strong, Ends In 'Chaos' Gala By HAROLD LfNDSTROM Deseret News Music Fdr.or To use a Kentucky Derby metaphor. For of the way around the track, Ballet Wests Contemporary three-quarte- which opened Spring Gala, at Kingsbury Hall Wednesday evening, was an absolute w inner. state sion" of disorder and confu- though there are those, I'm sure, who think that definition describes the ballet. Kuchs Chaos has to do with the Hesiodie theogony, the infinite empty space which existed before all things, and because it was not Thursday, a vacuum, from it proceed Erebus and Nyx whose children are Aether and Hemeia. In the Orphic cosmogony the 01 igin of all goes back to Chronos the personification bf time, who produced Aether and Chaos. In the Aristophan-i- c parody ("Birds), the winged Eros, in conjunction servation The story line w hatever it might be is not the thing in Chaos, in What makes Chaos, tl e w ords of one young man, the ugliest ballet 1 have ever seen, is its obsessive projection of seven male archangels and six female angels (portrayed by six male dancers) And when a huge painted figure is lowered at tire back of the stage that is immediately interpreted as being Lumore it cifer, logically, becomes the winged Eros, the de'y of love. More frustrating and offensive is the idea that Lucifer becomes Adam. Now back tu Hamlets ob ith gloomy Chaos brings forth the race of birds. Mr. Kuch has said earlier that he had taken some concepts from Miltons Paradise The story concept Lost. becomes confused when it seems that Kuch is following the Old Testaments story of the creation. w and the obvious concept of homosexuality. All the dancets are femiin varying ninely made up dfgiees. With few exceptions, all the dancing routines and seem feminine, techniques and the costumes make the dancers appear rude from the back and very feminine from Way 15, 1969 15 the front. r ins entie homo concept is, I think, what made so many poisons express a desire to got home and shower. Vs 1 said above, the first tin ee quarters of the Spring Gala is fun, at times exciting ar-moving and always in Wiliam Christensens excel-l- e t taste. It alone easily ju ifies jour attendance. You will have to decide If you want to risk the shock of Chaos. 1 b But when it turned down the homestretch for the world premiere of Richard Kuchs a cinch Chaos, the lead-pipwinner turned into something else. e For a few collegiate first nighters, judging by their squeals of Bravo," "Chaos" and Contemporary Spring Gala was an easy winner all the way. 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