The stage of the Vilnius State Small Theater in 2022-2023. becomes a space for original collaboration and invites the audience to a unique theater performance "Infinity". It is an international project, a synthesis of theater and jazz music, revealing a somewhat unusual form and point of view. One of the main themes of this project is the fight between good and evil, which will be developed by the live and improvising musicians of NoJo Airlines and the actors of the VVMT troupe. The creators and authors of the project are director Gabrielė Tuminaitė and founder of NoJo Airlines, Lithuanian jazz drummer, percussionist, composer, performance author Dalius Naujokaitis (New York).
The title of the theater performance "Infinity" symbolically reflects both the eternal struggle between good and evil, as well as the boundless creativity that characterizes the music of NoJo Airlines. According to director The music created and performed by G. Tuminaitė and D. Naujokaitis is frameless, free, with an inexplicable sense of the future, and the theme of good and evil is not primitively actualized with the help of this music, it takes on a completely different - much deeper and wider - meaning.
According to the director, the theater performance "Infinity" reveals the confrontation between the regime and the free man. The regime violates fundamental human rights and his self-respect and dignity. A person believes that the individuality, life, and rights of each person are more respected in a democratic system, so he opposes and fights for democracy, for the freedom to think and speak as he wants. In this case, the theater creates a trap, tension for the regime, and jazz musicians and performers represent the good, because the creative person is free, not suppressed. Thus, theater and jazz here embody the intersection and competition of two poles, and the improvisation of NoJo Airlines becomes a creative force that restores order and peace in the world and gives hope.
In the performance, Nojo Airlines performs the following compositions: "Relief" by Gusto Kyno, "I Love my Hut" by Rocket SCI, "Sky Lake" by Kenny Wollesen and Dalias Nauokaitis, "Light to Light" by Dalias Nauokaitis, "Constitution" by Kenny Wollesen.
The play uses texts from Andrejaus Kureičik's plays "Belarus. Offend" and "Belarus. Metabole", as well as excerpts from the works of Jonas Mekos.
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