Looking Back at a Fabulous Season!
Thank you for making 2023-2024 a great season!
Please consider making a fiscal year-end donation by June 30th to help sustain our programming in the upcoming season as we look forward to our 40th Anniversary! Thank You.
HOME SEASON PERFORMANCES
Our 2024 Home Season Performances took place on May 3, 4, and 6 at Sky Rink, Chelsea Piers.
The full theatrical show was performed by ITNY's professional ensemble and performing apprentices, and included a re-staging of Appalachia Waltz. On the Gala Night, we were joined by guest artists Oona & Gage Brown and 2024 World Champion Ilia Malinin!
Full Home Season Video, click here
For individual pieces, click here
2024 BENEFIT GALA
Olympians Meryl Davis & Charlie White and Tanith Belbin White & Ben Agosto were honored at the Benefit Gala on May 6 at the Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers in New York City.
“It’s incredibly moving to be here… To everyone who skated and performed thank you for your passion for pouring your hearts into those performances, the choreographers for putting those together, really special to watch. It’s moving and reminds me of why I love skating in the first place.” – Benjamin Agosto, 2024 ITNY Honoree
Sandra Bezic received the Choreography Award and Judy Blumberg the Alumni Award.
FALL FROLIC
Our Fall Frolic Performance and Fundraiseroccurred on Friday, October 27, 2023, at Sky Rink & the Sunset Terrace at Chelsea Piers. ITNY presented 12 pieces total, in an "unplugged" format without theatrical lighting. Performers included our professional ensemble, performing apprentices, and guest artists Emmanuel Savary, The Skyliners, and Alicia Hall Moran.
We presented the Will Sears Award to The Diversify Ice Foundation.
CITY SKATE CONCERT SERIES
This year’s City Skate Concert Series featured performances by the ITNY professional ensemble, special guest artists, and youth performers, from November 2023 through March 2024.
We performed at the Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park, Riverbank State Park, Rockefeller Center, Wollman Rink, World Ice Arena in Flushing Queens, Glide at Brooklyn Bridge Park, and LeFrak Center at Lakeside Brooklyn.
NEW WORKS AND YOUNG ARTISTS SERIES
We held 12 in-person sessions of our educational outreach programming for NYC public school students at 6 venues in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, as well as one virtual session with students from Staten Island, serving over 1000 students. Our talented professionals and young apprentices performed for the students and then engaged them in a free skating clinic. Students are introduced to the integration of athleticism and artistry necessary to create dancing on ice and learn the life lesson of falling and getting back up (first lesson in learning to skate).
EDGE CLASSES
From September 2023 through June 2024, ITNY conducted 50 Edge Classes at Sky Rink, Chelsea Piers, and at the Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park. Classes were taught by Company Members Sarah France and Joe Johnson, as well as guest artist Lorna Brown. Close to 150 skaters participated throughout the season.
DICK BUTTON FESTIVAL OF ARTISTIC SKATING
Norwood, MA - Oct. 14, 2023.
We conducted workshops both on and off the ice as well as a public performance.
WINTER HOLIDAY SKATING CELEBRATION
TREE LIGHTING AT BANK OF AMERICA WINTER VILLAGE AT BRYANT PARK
ITNY performed the World premiere of our Jazz Nutcracker, choreographed for Bryant Park by Kolton Krouse, featuring Sarah France, Joe Johnson, Justine Marie Kelleher, Karina Manta, Libby McGrosky, Liz Schmidt, and Aaron Singletary on Tuesday, Nov. 28 at 6 pm.
The event was broadcast on PBS on December 21st & 24th.
The full Bryant Park NYC Tree Lighting is streaming on Thirteen Specials!
SPECIAL EVENTS & HOLIDAY CHARACTERS
ITNY provided a variety of character skaters for special events at the local seasonal rinks, and the official ambassador of Rockefeller Center, "Roxy the Owl." Roxy was even invited to participate in Rockefeller Center's Tree Lighting Ceremony.
In November 2023, we performed in the Move with Athleta performance at Wollman Rink, in December 2023, we performed with Johnny Weir in Nemacolin, PA, and in February 2024, we performed at Scott Hamilton's 40 Years Going for Gold Event at Glide at Brooklyn Bridge Park.
PUBLICATIONS
ITNY was featured on CUNY TV Arts In The City
The Fall Frolic was featured in the Amsterdam News
The Fall Frolic was featured in Figure Skaters Online
ITNY was profiled by NY1 leading up to our Winter Holiday Skating Celebration at Riverbank State Park
ITNY's City Skate Concert Series Performance during Black History Month was featured in the Amsterdam News
Thank you for your support. See you next season for our 40th Anniversary!
This program is supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy C. Hochul and the New York State Legislature. ITNY is also supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and NYC Council Members Shaun Abreu and Christopher Marte. ITNY's Manhattan programming is funded in part by a grant from the New York City Tourism Foundation.
Additionally, ITNY receives funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Daniel & Corrine Cichy Memorial Foundation, The Hearthland Embers Fund, The Lisa McGraw Figure Skating Foundation, the Will Sears Foundation, and its generous private patrons.
Photo Credit:
Hideki Aono, Robert Dea, Lois Elfman, Crystal Kim, Amy Krut, Donald Lang,
David Murray (Clear Eye Photo), Josef Pinlac, Robin Ritoss, Fong Wu
