2024 BENEFIT GALA AND PERFORMANCE
The 2024 Benefit Gala and Performance will take place Monday, May 6th, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Performance, Cocktails, Dinner, and Award Ceremony.
The Lighthouse Chelsea Piers.
The Gala Performance will feature the ITNY Ensemble, ITNY Performing Apprentices,
and 2024 World Champion Ilia Malinin!
Co-Chairs: Josh Babb, Joe Kasputys, and Tracy Wilson
Honorees: Olympians Meryl Davis & Charlie White and Tanith Belbin White & Ben Agosto
Choreography Award: Sandra Bezic Alumni Award: Judy Blumberg
Tickets are on sale now, click here to get yours!
"ITNY is proud to honor Meryl Davis & Charlie White and Tanith Belbin White & Ben Agosto not only for their accomplishments as artistic Olympians and US National Champions but also as role models in our icy world,” said Moira North, Founder/Artistic Director.
“I’m sure I can speak for everyone when I say that we appreciate the honor and are looking forward to attending the Gala.” – Ben Agosto
About the 2024 Honorees
This award is given to those who are accomplished within our ice dance world and have stayed connected to the field beyond their own performances. It honors artists and athletes who have given back to our “icy” world and continue to be a role model for others to follow.
Meryl Davis and Charlie White are American ice dancers. The pair are the 2014 Olympic Champions, 2010 Olympic silver medalists, two-time (2011, 2013) World Champions, five-time Grand Prix Final Champions (2009–2013), three-time Four Continents Champions (2009, 2011, 2013) and six-time U.S. National Champions (2009–2014). Davis and White are the first American ice dancers to win the Ice Dance World Championships and Olympics. Meryl Davis is currently attending graduate school in Detroit and Charlie White coaches ice dance with his wife Tanith Belbin White.
The ice dancing team of Tanith Belbin & Ben Agosto were the first-ever U.S. ice dancing team to win a silver medal at the Winter Olympic Games, a feat which they accomplished at the 2006 Olympics in Torino, Italy. They are also World silver medalists and five-time U.S. National Champions. Both Tanith and Ben have taken up coaching and choreography — Ben in Arizona, and Tanith in Detroit — hoping to help train the next generation of Olympic champions.
About the Choreography Award
The Choreography Award is given to a choreographer who has contributed to the creation of dancing on ice as a performing art.
Sandra Bezic is a Canadian pair skater, figure skating choreographer, producer, and television commentator. With her brother Val Bezic, she won four Canadian Figure Skating Championships from 1970 to 1974 and placed ninth at the 1972 Winter Olympics. Sandra has been inducted into the Skate Canada Hall of Fame in the professional category. Bezic served as a commentator for NBC during the 2002, 2006, 2010, and 2014 Olympic games, the World Figure Skating Championships during the early 1990s, and numerous other skating events broadcast by NBC and CBC over the years. For several years Bezic was the director, co-producer, and choreographer for Stars on Ice, for which she won an Emmy Award in 2003. She has also choreographed for several television figure skating specials including Canvas of Ice, Carmen on Ice, and You Must Remember This. She is credited as Marlon Brando's skating coach in The Freshman(1990) and appears with him in the skating rink scene. Sandra’s latest project is the TV show I Have Nothing with comedian Carolyn Taylor.
About the Alumni Award
The Alumni Award is given to someone from the company who has gone on to develop something major within the figure skating/ice dance community.
Judy Blumberg is an American competitive ice dancer and two-time Olympian. With her skating partner, Michael Seibert Judy is a three-time world bronze medalist and a five-time US National Champions. She was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1996. Judy performed with us from 1988 to 2005 and was ITNY’s Ensemble Director from 1998 to 2005. ITNY is delighted to honor her with our Alumni Award.
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. If you would like to mail a check you may send it with the filled-out form here.
We are happy to help you design your message - text and photos - contact itny@icetheatre.org or call 212-929-5811. The deadline for your message to be included in the Journal is EXTENDED April 20, 2o24.
JOURNAL SAMPLES BELOW:
Quarter page samples: $300
Half page samples: $625
Full page sample: $1,250
Silver anniversary page sample - printed on silver paper in the middle of the book: $2,000
Centerfold Ice Angel double page sample- printed on silver paper: $5,000 (SOLD)
Front inside cover sample - color: $3,000
Back inside cover sample - color: $3,000
Back cover sample - color: $3,000
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 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.
