COLUMBIA — The piece is a ballet named “La Création du Monde” by Darius Milhaud. On stage, dancers playing animals from the African Savannah wear Cubist, African-inspired masks and stomp around flat-footed. Trombones and trumpets blare rambunctious jazz that suddenly shifts into traditional classical music.
Creation story provides Odyssey's season finale
Thursday, May 8, 2008 | 5:40 p.m. CDT;
updated 6:51 p.m. CDT, Saturday, July 19, 2008
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