2022 HOME SEASON PERFORMANCES
Friday, May 6 - 7:00 P.M.
Saturday, May 7- 7:00 P.M
Monday, May 9 - 6:30 P.M.
Benefit Gala on Monday, May 9 at 6:30 P.M.
Performance, Cocktails, Dinner, Dessert, and Award Ceremony
The Lighthouse, Chelsea Piers
Show Program for May 6, 7 and 9 - program and performers subject to change
OF WATER AND ICE (World Premiere, NYSCA Commission)
Choreography by Jody Sperling
Performed by Sarah France and Valerie Levine
Music: “Of Water and Ice” by DJ Spooky
PIVOTING (World Premiere)
Choreography by Joel Dear
Performed by Angela Chiang, Sarah France, Jennifer Gruver, Ale Izquierdo, Sabrina Mann, and Freddie Moore
Music: “Epilogue” by Olafur Arnalds
SACROSANCT (World Premiere)
Choreography by Lorna Brown
Performed by Kseniya Ponomaryova and Collin Brubaker
Music: “The Poet Acts” by Philip Glass
A PRAYER FOR PEACE (World Premiere)
Choreography by Elisa Angeli
Performed by Danil Berdnikov, Mauro Bruni, Sarah France, Ale Izqueirdo, Freddie Moore, Andrew Saelee, Liz Yoshiko Schmidt, and Aaron Singletary
Music: Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff
BODY PARTS (World Premiere)
Choreographed by Mauro Bruni
Performed by Angela Chiang, Danil Berdnikov, Ale Izqueirdo, Freddie Moore, Andrew Saelee, and Liz Yoshiko Schmidt
Music: Recording of Gabrielle Roth’s Voice directing her Five Rhythms class
VOGUING (World Premiere)
Choreographed by Joanna McLeod, Emanuel Sandhu and Cesar Valentino
Performed by Emanuel Sandhu
Music: Vogue by Madonna
JULIET (World Premiere)
Choreographed by Milly Wasserman
Performed by the Junior Ensemble consisting of Georgina Blackwell, Ciara Flaherty, Electra Scheiner, Chris Tenzin, Megumi Tsutsumi, and Milly Wasserman
Music: “Come, Gentle Night” by Abel Korzeniowski
AFTERNOON OF A FAUN
Choreographed and performed by Mauro Bruni
Music: “Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune” by Claude Debussy
RHYTHM DANCE
Choreography by Joel Dear
Performed by Oona and Gage Brown
Music by Kool Moe Dee
SCHOOL FIGURES
A Moira North and Elee Kraljii Gardiner collaboration
Performed by Sarah France, Kate Mangiardi, and Mauro Bruni
Poem read from “Serpentine Loop” by Elee Kraljii Gardiner
TAKE FIVE
Choreography by Eliot Halverson
Performed by Armen Agaian or Danil Bernikov
Music by saxophonist Paul Desmond, arr. Dave Brubeck, and performed by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
The gala, following the performance, will also feature cocktails, dinner, and an award ceremony. This year’s gala will honor Olympic ice dance champions Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, and present an Ice Angel Award to Betty Wasserman, as well as Alumni Awards to Darlene Parent and Wade Corbett. The gala is co-chaired by Olympic coaches Brian Order and Tracy Wilson.
“We are thrilled to be honoring Jayne and Christopher at our 35th Anniversary Gala, not only for their breathtakingly original - and sport-changing - Olympic Gold Medal performance (followed by many others), but also for their continuing, always highly creative contributions to our skating world, most recently the acclaimed television series, Dancing on Ice,” said ITNY Founder and Artistic Director, Moira North.
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 also supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and NYC Council Member Mark Levine and by Dance/NYC'S Coronavirus Dance Relief Fund.
