Jamming at Le Boeuf: Jazz and the Paris Avant-Garde

Abstract

same name, choreographed byjean Borlin of the Ballets Suedois, with sets by Fernand Leger and text by Blaise Cendrars, Milhaud's Creation of the World was the key component of a glittering and stunningly successful avant-garde spectacle, at a time when avant-garde performance was at its most fashionable, its most outrageous, and its most entertaining. It was produced at the Theâtre des Champs Elysees, where the Rite of Spring had provoked the first of a series oi scandales, and where Cocteau's Boeuf sur le iozihad set a new standard for avant-garde chic. Firmly situating itself in the tradition of Parade (1917) , the Creation of the World relied for its success on a predictable mix of formulas, such as representations of the exotically primitive, the exploitation of the current jazz rage, and the collaboration of celebrities from

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