The theatre's birthday and a musical-poetic celebration with the NoJo Airlines Orchestra

March 8, 2025 at 7 pm, On the occasion of its 35th anniversary, Vilnius Maly Theatre invites you to a musical and poetic swarm with the NoJo Airlines Orchestra - the theatre hall will become a runway for a crew of more than half a hundred pilots and passengers, overwhelmed by the festive frenzy, brought together by the exceptionally talented and artistically incisive Lithuanian percussionist, composer, conductor and musician Dalius Naujokaičis-Naujas from the United States.

The NoJo Airlines Orchestra is a musical and scenic adventure that connects different countries and continents, each time taking this aircraft, with its different instruments and sounds, in an unexpected direction.  

This time, the immersive flight will be joined by Giuseppe Zevola, an extraordinary artist from Naples, who uses artistic installations to create uncharted visionary universes of ideas and objects.

The theatre's friendship with New York-based Dalius Naujokaitis began with one of the biggest projects of the Vilnius Maly Theatre in recent years - the joint performance Infinity (2022), conceived by director Gabriele Tuminaitė and Dalius Naujokaitis-Naujas.

Invited guests: Giuseppe Zevola (artistic performance), Darius Meškauskas (vocals), Eugenijus Varkalis (saxophone, percussion, flutes), Pijus Oras (bass guitar), Vytis Nevinskas (double bass), Paulius Vaškas (guitar), Dominykas Norkūnas (guitar), Matas Samulionis (synthesizer), Dovydas Stelmokas (saxophone), Kazimieras Jušinskas (saxophone), Danielius Pancerovas (saxophone), Arminas Bižys (saxophone), Haroldas Parulis (clarinet), Mindaugas Vadoklis (trumpet), Aurimas Rimeikis (trumpet) and Apolinaras Dubauskas (trumpet), Jievaras Jasinskis (trombone), Dominykas Vyšniauskas (trombone), Mikas Kurtinaitis (tuba), Lukas Pivoriūnas (tuba), Rokas Pralgauskas (armonica), Paulina Jankovskytė (violin), Ugnius Dičiūnas (oboe) and Julius Klimavičius (bassoon), Kristina Svolkinaitė (vocals), Kristiana Jodko (vocals), Džiugas Daugirda (percussion), Salomėja Kalvelytė (flute), Dominykas Snarskis (percussion), Marius Mockevičius (vocals), Ignas Kasikauskas (drums) and Dalius Naujokaitis (drums, conducting).

"He is abnormal! He is completely overwhelmed by his art and doesn't care about anything else! Having lost his mind for the muses, he goes ahead unpredictably and dangerously, like all poets." - Jonas Mekas on Dalius Naujokaitis-Naujo