2003 Summer Residency in Jamestown
July 28 - August 16, 2003Jamestown Savings Bank Ice Arena
Ice Theatre of New York was pleased to return to Jamestown, New York, for its 2003 Summer Residency. In collaboration with the Jamestown Skating Academy and the Jamestown Savings Bank Ice Arena, the Company and its apprentices participated in the creative processes, rehearsals of repertory works and workshops for the surrounding communities. The Residency culminated in two short public performances at the nationally renowned Skate Chautauqua event on August 15 & 16, 2003.
During the Residency, the Company prepared a new work by ice choreographer Doug Webster entitled Purple Haze, performed to the song with the same title by Jimmy Hendrix. Ice Theatre also started the reconstruction of a work entitled Ice Moves, originally created for Olympic Skating Champion John Curry and his dance on ice company by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux. Mr. Bonnefoux is now the Artistic Director of the Chautauqua Ballet Company and the North Carolina Dance Theatre. Assisting Mr. Bonnefoux in this reconstruction process was prima ballerina/ skater Katherine Healy, who herself was a prodigy of Mr. Curry. Ice Theatre also rehearsed works by choreographers Jacqulyn Buglisi, David Liu and JoAnna Mendl Shaw.
Ice Theatre of New York gratefully acknowledges support for the 2003 Summer Residency from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation, the Downtown Jamestown Inns and Suites, the Gebbie Foundation, the Jamestown Savings Bank Ice Arena, the Jamestown Skating Club, the Johnson Foundation, the Ralph C. Sheldon Foundation, Kirk Wyse and Lenel Van den Berg from the Skating Academy, Mary Handley, Betty Sheldon, Dick & Martha Kimball and individual contributors.