Džiazo šokio ir muzikos spektaklis „LINDYHOPERA“ (Choreografė Elzė Višnevskytė)

Lindy Hopper
Jazz dance and music performance
Duration - 1 hour.
The premiere is in 2024. December 14
Great hall
Creative team:
Choreographer - Elzė Višnevskytė
Composer - Remis Ranchys
Set designer and costume designer - Paulina Turauskaitė
Lighting artist - David Janavicus

Ensemble "The Schwings Band":
Remis Ranchys - saxophones
Gediminas Svilas – double bass
Jonas Filmanavičius – drums
Jūris Benaitis – guitar
Assistant director - Eglė Kuzienė
Starring:
Telman Ragimov, Viacheslav Lukyanov, Artur Svorobovich, Maksim Tuchvatulin, Igor Abramovich, Vera Stasenia, Yevgenia Karpikova, Yelena Ragimova, Aleksandra Metalnikova, Yevgenia Rusakova, Viktorija Aliukone-Miroshnikova, Larisa Popova, Edita Goncharova, Ekaterina Makarova, Angela Bizunovič, Aleksandr Kanajev, Yevgenia Gladij, Inga Mashkarina, Kirill Klemenchuk.
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Live music, jazzing bodies that almost speak with a voice, a sense of freedom and frenzy, gracefulness and elegance radiated by the dance - this is "Lindyhopera", which will take you out of everyday life, wake up your slumbering life, and transfuse your sleeping blood. All this and the energy of the vintage jazz ensemble "The Schwings Band", the movement architecture designed by choreographer Elzė Višnevskytė, and the jazz and swing cascades of composer Remi Rančis will guarantee a cheerful evening.
The main dramaturg of the performance is the body, or more precisely, the actors of the Vilnius Old Theater and their bodies. The director is music and rhythm. It is not for nothing that jazz and swing have become synonymous with freedom, and lindyhop is undoubtedly a rehearsal of freedom. Jazz dances (Charleston, black bottom, tap, lindy hop, tricks, solo jazz, balboa, etc.) were born from the need for liberation and joy.
Jazz is all kinds and everywhere, its language is based on rhythmicity, improvisation, individuality and expression. These elements have the power to create identity, connection with self and others. Jazz dances were born and developed as club dances, but were danced both on the streets and in living rooms. Lindyhop is a highly energetic couple dance that originated in the 1920s in Harlem, New York, in the black community.
The play explores the relationship between freedom and structure. Is freedom possible without boundaries, without structures? Can the structure provide security? What kind of freedom do we seek? How and what does jazz speak to us today, what can it teach?
Live music and choreography create a theater miracle that we all look forward to every day like a promise that never comes true. This fiesta of expression is for everyone: young, mature, elderly, someone who likes jazz and doesn't want to worry about "serious matters", i.e. i.e. minors Nobody loses here.
"We've been playing jazz for dancers for many years. When we were young, the only thing we cared about was the notes. Now that the notes flow by themselves, there's time to watch the dancers. The music is the wind, and the dancers are the forest responding to the wind. Learning to dance like the wind is not easy - you have to learn the steps, like the note, and then forget everything, surrender and dance." (Remis Ranchys)
Elzė Višnevskytė - jazz dancer, choreographer, educator. Since 2017 runs the What a Jazz studio. Participates in international jazz dance festivals in Europe, Asia, USA.
Remis Rančys - musician, multi-instrumentalist, composer, educator. Actively participates in Lithuanian and foreign jazz scenes, one of the country's most talented jazz performers. Founder of vintage jazz, swing and New Orleans jazz ensemble The Schwings Band.

Attention! Smoke is used during the performance.

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