Room Service 2022
c.a.t.a.m.o.n Dance Group meets the Jerusalem Street Orchestra in the Brown Hotels
Thursday, 12.5 | Villa Brown Hotels, Brown JLM, Brown Machne Yehuda
An extraordinary and first-of-its-kind collaboration between the Jerusalem Street Orchestra and c.a.t.a.m.o.n Dance Group, brings together dance and music for an evening full of original performances at the Brown Hotels in Jerusalem. For one evening, venues and hotel rooms at the Villa Brown, Brown JLM and Brown Mahane Yehuda will become intimate stages on which short and intimate dance and music performances will be presented.
The first part of the evening will take place at the Brown JLM and Villa Brown hotels. Four short collaborative pieces between musicians from the Jerusalem Street Orchestra and dancers/creators from the c.a.t.a.m.o.n Dance Group will be exposed in world premiere. These intimate pieces will host small groups of up to five people at each show. They’ll perform several times throughout the evening (6PM-9PM).
The second part of the evening will take place in the lobby of the Brown Machne Yehuda Hotel. This special event will host the Jerusalem Street Orchestra bringing 15 string players, who will play classical creations along with pop and Israeli songs adapted for an instrumental orchestra. The concert will close with a live performance by dancers from the first part of the evening, bringing their characters into the concert. Conductor: Jonathan Spandorf.
Villa Brown Hotel 54 Haneviim Street, Jerusalem
6PM – 9PM
Piece # 1 : IN-COUNTER
Choreography: Claudia Lavista
Dancers: Yulia Mezhetskaya and Uri Diker
Cello: Nitzan Gal
Piece # 2: Training Room
Choreography and performance: Yoanna Blikman
Percussion: Dar Levy
Brown Hotel JLM | 41 Hillel Street, Jerusalem
6PM – 9PM
Piece # 1: Sweets
Choreography: Elad Schechter
Dance: Michael Levy
Harp: Sari Shemesh Shabtai
Costume design : Yael Shterenberg
Job # 2: Dissue
Choreography: Elad Schechter and Irad Avni
Dancer: Irad Avni
Basson: Michael Roessler
Brown Machne Yehuda | 105 jaffa st., Jerusalem
9:30PM
Jerusalem Street Orchestra – 15 string players, who will play classical creations along with pop and Israeli songs adapted for an instrumental orchestra. The concert will close with a live performance by dancers from the first part of the evening, bringing their characters into the concert. Conductor: Jonathan Spandorf.
‘Room Service’ events are made possible thanks to the generous support of: the Jerusalem Foundation, the Ministry of Culture, the Jerusalem Municipality, the Leichtag Family Foundation, the International Jerusalem Fellowship Program, Legal consultant – Kramer-Shapira-Schneider, Amos Katz & Co. Certified Public Accountants.