Performers

Guest Artist (May 5th Only)

ILIA MALININ,Two-time World Champion, three-time National Champion and two-time Grand Prix of Figure Skating Champion, Ilia “Quadg0d" Malinin was the youngest person named to the 2022 TIME100 NEXT list, after being the first and only skater to ever land a quad axel, the most difficult and elusive jump in figure skating (4.5 revolutions in the air), making him the early favorite for Olympic Gold in Milano Cortina 2026. The innovative and unconventional Malinin became a true game changer in 2022, establishing a World Junior Record for the men's short program, free skate, and combined score, and becoming the youngest ever men's champion at Skate America - while landing a quad axel. He won his first US National Championships in 2023 and successfully defended that tile in 2024 and 2025. He won the Grand Prix Final in 2023 and 2024 and he capped off his 2024 campaign by setting a World Record and winning World Championship Gold at the 2024 ISU World Championships in Montreal, Canada. In the current 24-25 Season, Ilia has not lost any competitions. In March of 2025, at the ISU Worlds in Boston, Ilia defended his title with a total score of 318.56, securing his second consecutive world title with a landslide victory. After the event, at the 2025 ISU Figure Skating Awards, he won Most Entertaining Program and Skater of the Year. The son of two Olympians, Malinin is a sophomore at George Mason University, and when he's not training and competing, enjoys skateboarding, playing video games, and watching extreme sports. This season marks Ilia’s second appearance with ITNY.

Performer

SARAH BAETGE is an Asian American artist from Los Angeles, who has 19 years of experience in competitive figure skating. She has performed for ITNY several times, including performances in Billingham, UK for the tribute show “The Creative Spirit of John Curry.” Sarah's skating showcases a blend of strength and fluidity, symbolizing the duality of life—wild and tame. Her movements on ice serve as a canvas for deeper human connections, fostering empathy, understanding, and the power of healing through the medium of skating.                                                                                                                                                                                

Performer

JACQUELINE BENSON she/her) is a professional skater, dancer, choreographer, and coach based in New York City. This is her first year performing with ITNY and she is excited to perform in this year's Home Season. Her current professional engagements include touring with Montreal-based contemporary skating company, Le Patin Libre, and working with American Ice Theatre. Jacqueline is also a US Figure Skating triple gold medalist in Freestyle, Moves in the Field / Skating Skills, and Solo Free Dance. She is a Professional Skaters Association Master-Rated coach & choreographer, and has choreographed programs across all disciplines for skaters ranging from National Development Team athletes to showcase skaters to Excel competitors. She is trained in multiple styles of dance and has performed with several contemporary dance companies in her hometown of Phoenix, Arizona. Jacqueline graduated summa cum laude from Arizona State University and has experience in marketing, communications, and nonprofit advocacy work.

Performer

DANIL BERDNIKOV is in his fourth season with ITNY. Originally from Samara, Russia, he competed as part of the junior national team and across his home country throughout high school. He later moved to Moscow to further his education and joined Stage Entertainment Russia, where he began performing professionally as a skater. Performing for live audiences gave Danil a renewed passion for skating, leading to an international career spanning eight years. He has performed with Willy Bietak Productions and Wheeler Productions in the US, Stageworks Worldwide Productions in the UK, and Holiday on Ice and Dynamic Shows Entertainment throughout the EU. In 2025, he was honored to be part of Art on Ice in Switzerland - the most famous ice show in the world, where he performed alongside world-class skaters and international music stars. Danil is deeply grateful to his parents, coaches, choreographers, and fellow skaters for their unwavering support.

Performing Apprentices

OONA & GAGE BROWN, are a sister and brother U.S. ice dance team from Long Island, NY. Oona & Gage started apprenticing with ITNY in 2016. They were crowned the 2022 World Junior Ice Dance Champions in Tallinn, Estonia! Since then, they have made the transition to the senior level and competed for Team USA. Oona and Gage perform regularly with ITNY while training with their coaches, Inese Bucevica and ITNY choreographer, Joel Dear. Recently, they have been training part-time at the Ice Academy in Montreal.

Performer/Aerialist

JEREMY CLINE (Performer) (he/him) is a USA-based choreographer, artist, and teacher.  His mission is to use movement arts as a means of healing, creativity, and collective good.  He has worked as a professional dancer for a decade in the US (Los Angeles Opera, Lincoln Center, Spectrum Dance Theater, Brian Sanders’ JUNK, Khambatta Dance Company, The 5th Ave Musical Theater, International Ballet Theater, Vancouver Street Dance Festival), and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in choreography from the University of Iowa. His choreography has been shown at the Seattle International Dance Festival, Full Tilt Dance Festival, Men in Dance Festival, Queensboro Dance Festival, Miracle Makers International Film Festival (where he won awards for Best Choreography in 2021 and Best Music Video in 2023), Seattle Fringe Festival, Circadium School of Contemporary Circus, Middlebury College, Disney on Ice, and the University of Iowa. His creative process often involves original movement vocabulary, interactive digital technologies, and composing original music scores for his pieces.  In 2021, he co-founded Skoptur, a company pushing the boundaries of networked performance and the integration of movement with digital arts. Additionally, Jeremy has toured over 70 cities in eight countries with Disney on Ice as a skater, character performer, live host, and acrobat, performing in front of over two million people.  Jeremy is currently finishing his training to become a certified practitioner in the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education  He is also a long-time practitioner of Capoeira Angola, bboying, and contact improvisation. 

Performer

SARAH FRANCE joined ITNY in 2018, bringing her passion for ice dancing and broad knowledge of skating skills, choreographic styles, and techniques to the company.  A multi-disciplinary artist who has extended her lifelong fascinations with movement and creativity into many professional pursuits, she is a dancer and choreographer both on and off the ice, an aerialist, visual artist, author, researcher, musician, and grant writer. In addition to her work with ITNY, Sarah dances with The Equus Projects. Sarah began dancing at age three and figure skating when she was 11 - moving through space and the emotional expression possible in choreography are deep internal drives she has pursued throughout her life. Sarah is internationally regarded for her knowledge of skating skill development and on-ice choreography, having coached beginner through Olympic athletes and leading clinics and seminars worldwide. Sarah is proud to represent her intersectional communities as an LGBTQ+, neurodivergent, and disabled artist.

Performer

JOE JOHNSON is a former Team USA ice dancer. With their partner and fellow company member Karina Manta, they competed internationally for four years before retiring to join Cirque du Soleil. During the pandemic, they worked in England on the reality show Dancing on Ice, and after two years abroad, started touring nationally with Ice Dance International. They have since settled in New York City and perform with ITNY in addition to coaching and choreographing full-time. This is Joe’s first season performing with ITNY.

Performer, Aerialist

ANGELA KIM is a professional figure skater, circus artist, and founder of Balanced Skaters. She began skating at six, competing until 18, and has performed professionally since 2000. Angela has held principal roles with ITNY, Holiday on Ice, Disney on Ice, Royal Caribbean, Art on Ice, and Cirque du Soleil. In 2006, she discovered circus arts and has since trained in traditional Mongolian contortion and aerial acrobatics. She became one of the few skaters to blend circus with figure skating, pioneering a unique performance style. After performing as an inline skater and aerialist in Cirque du Soleil’s Volta, she was invited to teach for Acrobatic Arts. Seeing a gap in the skating world, Angela collaborated with Acrobatic Arts to create Balanced Skaters, bringing strength and mobility training to broader skating communities.

Performer

TIM KOLETO is a Silver Medallist at the 2022 Winter Olympics, NHK Trophy Champion, and Five-Time Japanese Champion Ice Dancer. He has competed internationally at the Senior level for 10 consecutive years. Currently residing in Montreal, he is currently coaching and choreographing, and an aspiring author. He is excited to be joining Ice Theatre of New York for the first time. 

Performer

VALERIE LEVINE has collaborated on ITNY events for the past two decades and has been roller-skating as well as dancing tap, jazz, and ballet since the age of four. She started training in figure skating at 11, going on to compete and test until graduating high school, when she turned down Disney on Ice to pursue her Bachelor’s degree at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). At 19, she earned her gold level in Senior Ladies Moves and pre-golds in ice dance before skating professionally. While earning her BS in Product Management Textiles from FIT, she minored in dance and trained at Broadway Dance Center in many dance styles, leading to an off-ice career as a professional belly dancer, ballroom dancer, and samba dancer. She currently teaches and performs these styles worldwide, while managing her own entertainment company Valerina Dance, which can be followed at ValerieLevine.com or on Instagram @Valerielevine.

Performer

ISAAC LINDY is a NYC-based performing artist working across figure skating, dance, and musical theater. Professional skating highlights include Le Patin Libre's Murmuration (Théâtre de la Ville de Paris, Venice Biennale), Holiday on Ice European tours (Line Captain, Ensemble), International Ice Stars (Principal, Royal Opera House of Muscat), and site-specific performance with IceLab Leipzig. As a dancer, Isaac has worked with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Philadelphia, the Putty Dance Project, Ruckus Dance, and has performed at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Isaac holds a BA with Honors in Urban Studies from Vassar College and is a proud member of the American Guild of Musical Artists. isaac-alan-lindy.com

Performer - Figures

KATE MANGIARDI, is a USFSA double gold medalist, WFS member and has been coaching throughout the tri-state area for over 15 years. After receiving her BA from Vassar and MFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design, she began exhibiting her work in museums and galleries. Awarded the W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts in 2009, Kate merges her experience as a skater into her art: exploring the connection between the etching a skater leaves behind on the ice and the creation of a drawing and has been excited and grateful for the opportunity to explore this direction in her work with ITNY.

Performer

KARINA MANTA is an ice dancer and former international medalist and Grand Prix competitor for Team USA with her partner, Joe Johnson. Since retiring from competitive skating, she has toured with the Cirque du Soleil show AXEL and performed as a professional for the UK television series, Dancing on Ice, which she and her celebrity partner won in the 2021-22 season. She has been a company member of Ice Dance International since 2021. Karina's first season performing with ITNY was 2023. In addition to performing, Karina is the author of the young adult memoir, On Top of Glass, about growing up queer in figure skating.

Performer

LIBBY MCGROSKY has been skating with ITNY since 2023. They began skating at the age of four and continued skating through high school with a focus on freestyle and an interest in synchronized skating. In college, they skated for the Hayden Synchronized Skating Teams at the Junior and Senior levels and represented the USA for three international seasons. After completing their competitive career, Libby joined ITNY and began the process of switching to professional figure skating. Libby obtained a bachelor of science in environmental science with a minor in climate change and sustainability from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Performer

LIZ YOSHIKO SCHMIDT has been skating with ITNY since 2017. Luscious edges, artistic movement, and ice dancing inform her skating and professional career, which began in 2013, at the age of 18, performing internationally in Europe, Egypt, and across the US. She is a Japanese/German American skater who hails from Chicago, IL, and recently moved from San Francisco, CA, to New York City. She is a U.S. Figure Skating double gold medalist in Freestyle and Moves in the Field, and a silver medalist in Ice Dancing. Liz received her bachelor of fine arts in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2018, has an art studio in Brooklyn, and is the creator of the ice fashion line Dansu Wear.

Performer

AARON SINGLETARY grew up in Pennsylvania skating for the Penguin Figure Skating Club and started his national competitive career training with Craig Maurizi at the Ice House in Hackensack, NJ. Aaron earned gold in Moves in the Field as well as singles Freestyle. Aaron now coaches primarily at City Ice Pavilion in New York City. Over the years, Aaron has had many internationally revered coaches. Each left a prominent mark on his approach to skating and singling out one or two would be a disservice to the others. He aims to further his knowledge so that one day he too may be an internationally recognized performer and coach. The 2019 Home Season marked his debut with ITNY.

Performer

MATT THOMAS remembers seeing ITNY perform at Rockefeller Center as a young boy and feels privileged to have become a member of the educational outreach and performance groups of ITNY able to pass on that dream over the last three years. Introduced to skating through the Learn to Skate Program in Syracuse, NY, he continued to train as a figure skating competitor and in 1998 became the Eastern Sectional Champion. He has always loved the ice and considers himself blessed to still be skating three decades plus from his initiation and spreading the joy through his continuing career as a skating coach. A professional saxophonist, Matt holds a Bachelor's in music from SUNY Buffalo, and performs regularly both in NYC and internationally.

Performing Apprentice

GEORGINA BLACKWELL has been skating for 20 years and competes at the Gold and International Solo Dance level. She is a USFS Gold Medalist and National Solo Dance Final competitor. Outside of skating, Georgina is a student at Columbia University in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, with a focus on art history. 

Performing Apprentice

SOPHIA DOMONOSKE has been skating for 16 years and competes at the Senior Solo Dance level and has previously competed at the Senior freestyle level. She is a five-time US Figure Skating gold medalist, a four-time National Solo Dance Final competitor, a three-time National Solo Dance Final medalist, and a two-time silver medalist. She qualified for Senior Pacific Sectionals before fully transitioning to Ice Dance. Sophia trained in Colorado Springs for a few years, where she had a partner and competed in the National Qualifying Series as a Senior ice dancer. Sophia is the President of the NYU Figure Skating Team. While she is not on the ice, Sophia attends New York University majoring in Computer Science and Global Liberal Studies. This marks Sophia’s debut as an Ice Theatre of New York Performing Apprentice.

Performing Apprentice

CAROLINE MURA has been skating for 15 years and competes at the Junior freestyle and Senior Solo Dance level. She is a four-time US Figure Skating gold medalist and sectional qualifying competitor. Additionally, she has won multiple intercollegiate national titles and is a four-time National Solo Dance Final competitor. Outside of skating, Caroline is a Master’s Student at New York University studying biology on a pre-med track.

Performing Apprentice

MILLY WASSERMAN has been performing with ITNY since 2015. She became a member of ITNY’s Junior Ensemble in 2017. Later, Milly made her choreographic debut at the 2022 ITNY Home Season Performances with her piece “In An Instant.” She is the 2024 intercollegiate national champion, a four-time national competitor in ice dance, and is the 2023 Intercollegiate Solo Pattern Dance national champion. Milly is a member of the NYU Figure Skating Team, which placed 4th at the 2024 intercollegiate national championships. When Milly is not choreographing or skating, she is at New York University studying psychology.