Education and Outreach
When Moira North founded Ice Theatre of New York in 1984, she was determined to focus on three principal activities: building a solid repertory of dance-on-ice, presenting public performances, and implementing educational and outreach programs. These latter programs are crucially important to the Ice Theatre mission. They build new audiences and introduce the values of the athleticism and artistry of figure skating to young children and students. Ice Theatre also has an apprentice program to train virtuosic young skaters in performance skating. Several apprentices who participated in these programs have joined the Company.PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Ice Theatre of New York is proud of its
educational components. The Company's premiere educational outreach
program, The New Works and Young Artists Series at Riverbank State Park
in Harlem, is dedicated to giving emerging choreographers and
performers an opportunity to present new works. They show
these works to an audience of school children from Harlem and
Washington Heights and engage the students in a free skating clinic
after the performance.
Photos - 2007 Season
Photos - April 2006
Ice Theatre anually participates in the Sports &
Arts Festivals, during which students from the public school
system spend their spring break in fun and healthy sports and arts
activities. In these programs, taking place at Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers
and Riverbank State Park, young students receive the benefit of physical
education. Students also learn that ice skating is more than a
competitive sport; they are introduced to the integration of
athleticism and artistry necessary to make ice skating - especially as
it is practiced and promoted by Ice Theatre of New York - exciting,
beautiful, breathtaking, and passionate.
APPRENTICE PROGRAM
ITNY's educational efforts include internal development of the Company through the recruitment and training of apprentices. Ice Theatre includes its apprentices in Residencies and performance projects. Apprentices have the opportunity to study new repertory pieces, work with each other and with choreographers, learn from experienced professional skaters, and gain confidence from audience support and performing. This training program prepares apprentice skaters for a new, more mature level of performance.MASTER CLASS
The Master Classes are a series of inspiring, creative seminars brought to your rink by the Ice Theatre of New York.
Ice Theatre of New York has gathered seven of the finest Master Class instructors in skating to offer seminars and classes that enhance performance skills and the pure enjoyment of beautiful skating. These seminars are creative in nature and meant to open the minds of skaters to new possibilities of combinations and to expand the body's vocabulary of movement. The instructors include Judy Blumberg, Douglas Webster, David Liu, Cindy Stuart, Rory Flack, Jamie Isley, and Stephanee Grosscup.