Vytautas Landsbergis about Georgian Shadow Theatre "Budrugana-Gagra"

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Interview recorded in 9 January 2012 year in Vilnius.
Here is the Translation of the video clip
Mr. Vytautas Landsbergis talking about
The Georgian Theater of Hand Shadows:
Gela Kandelaki's Theater of Hand shadows, the way it revealed itself in Vilnius, reaches the depths of your soul and inspires you. It gives us back something that eternally belongs to a child within u...s, and also something that's just eternal... like the happiness of existence, of life, and human relationships, and imagination. When you are looking at this screen and listening to the music, you don't even need much imagination to see the bears, elephants, gophers, rabbits, and other creatures in these active, playful shadows living next to us and within us. We feel, we recognize each other in these shadows in how they interact with each other, how they learn about themselves and their environment, how they fall in love and say good bye... And then, eventually, it's as if these shadows didn't even exist... it's like 'once upon a time'... and it will always be like this...
But at the same time, when you hear the very well chosen music of the greatest representatives of the world of jazz, and when they even become the personages in these shadow plays, it's hard to decide what's more important in this counterpoint that is so well thought through. But you get the counterpoint of music and shadows, and the whole wins your heart with an unexpected synthesis of beauty, acting, and of great ideas.
I think children don't make mistakes when they play, or when they draw. Everything there is flawless and you can't correct anything. But it takes a very special talent for adults to create something like that. And then, during or after the performance you also realize that all of this is created and made real with minimal resources, only by movements of hands and fingers... You realize that the hands of these young actors are making music, making music with the light, and by not letting the light reach the screen, and by that they assert their own existence, a temporary, fleeting existence... You realize how much mastery and how much enthusiasm one needs for this, and you just feel amazed, you admire... And you wish to share the happiness of the art of creating and performing with many others around the world.
During this particular performance, the jazz performance that we saw in Vilnius and also later, I was thinking that this type of Georgian performance could be a revelation for the homeland of jazz, and for New York. I think the theater should pursue such a goal in the future.

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