40TH ANNIVERSARY BENEFIT GALA AND PERFORMANCE
ITNY's 40th Anniversary Benefit Gala and Performance will take place Monday, May 5th, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Co-Chairs: Taffy Holliday, Michel Mercure, and David Tewksbury
Performance, Cocktails, Dinner, and Award Ceremony.
The Lighthouse Chelsea Piers.
The Gala Performance will feature the ITNY Ensemble, ITNY Performing Apprentices, and Guest Artists!
Sponsor Ticket- $550
Patron Ticket- $800
Ice Angel Ticket (Includes on-ice Seating) - $1,250
Dinner with Honoree- $2,000 (Includes seat at Honoree Table)
Sponsor Table for Ten- $5500
Patron Table for Ten- $8,000
Ice Angel Table for Ten- $12,500
Join the celebration by taking a moment to share your thoughts, memories or good wishes in our Annual Benefit Journal. To reserve your space - go here.
We are happy to help you design your message - text and photos - contact itny@icetheatre.org or call 212-929-5811. Deadline for your message to be included in the Journal is April 10, 2025
Click here for the various sizes and message examples
**If you are an ITNY Alumni and would like to be involved in the 40th Anniversary Festivities please send an email to itny@icetheatre.org and we will get you connected! **
Lifetime Achievement Scott Hamilton
Olympic Champion, Humanitarian, courageous cancer survivor and dedicated Ice Theatre of New York supporter. Scott Hamilton is the 1984 Olympic Champion, member of the US Olympic Hall of Fame and the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame, and the founder of the Scott Hamilton Cares Foundation.
The most recognizable figure skating star in the world, Scott Hamilton has won over 70 titles, awards, and honors, including an Emmy Award Nomination, induction into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame and the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame, the V Foundation’s Thriver Award, the International Skating Union’s Jacques Favart Award, and Gold Meets Golden’s Midas Touch Golden Legacy Award. From a young age, Hamilton displayed an extraordinary talent for figure skating, captivating audiences with his unmatched skill and infectious enthusiasm.
Ice Angel Anna Kisselgoff
Anna Kisselgoff was Chief Dance Critic of The New York Times , and has been decorated by the governments of Denmark, France and Iceland for her writing. She began at the New York Times as a dance critic and cultural news reporter in 1968, and became its Chief Dance Critic in 1977, a role she held until 2005. She left the staff in 2006 but continues to contribute to the paper.
Anna studied ballet as as a child and teen in Manhattan with Jean(Ivan) Yazvinsky, a member of Diaghilev’s famed Ballets Russes. She also tried to skate backward as well as forward at the Rockefeller Center rink when she was 10.
Here she proved unsuccesfui but she took her love of skating into her career as dance critic. Her major articles about Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean led her to review pioneering works on ice by modern dance or ballet choreographers at Moira North ‘s Ice Theater of New York and elsewhere.
Earlier, Anna had graduated from Bryn Mawr college and received two Master”s degrees from Columbia University ,one in Journalism and the other in French history.
She ended her 1988 review of our Hard Edge show with “Ice Theatre of New York is onto something and deserves greater support!”
About Ice Theatre of New York
Founded by Moira North, ITNY's mission is to celebrate and advance dance on ice as a performance art. Through its performances in both traditional and site-specific venues, ITNY presents ice dance that helps to open one’s eyes to seeing skating in new and unexpected ways. ITNY was the very first ice dance company to receive dance program funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. www.icetheatre.org
ITNY 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 Abreu, Bottcher, Marte and Powers. 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 Lisa McGraw Figure Skating Foundation, the Will Sears Foundation, and its generous private patrons.
