Ice Theatre of New York City Skate Concert
Be dazzled by some of the city's most talented skaters! Ice Theatre of New York brings breathtaking ice choreography performed by their young skating apprentices and professional ensemble members to The Rink. We invite you to the rink deck watch this lunchtime performance.
Ice Theatre of New York'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 ones eyes to seeing skating in new and unexpected ways.
Today's performance features pieces performed by Sarah Baetge ("Modigliani"), Liz Yoshiko Schmidt and Aaron Singletary ("Wheels of a Dream"), and Vakhtang Murvanidze ("Happy Feet").
Sarah Baetge is an Asian American artist from Los Angeles, who has 20 years of experience in competitive figure skating. She has performed for ITNY several times, as a performing apprentice, 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. Sarah joined the ITNY Ensemble in 2024.
Liz Yoshiko Schmidt has been skating with ITNY since 2017. Luscious edges, artistic movement, and ice dance inform her skating and professional career, which began in 2013 at the age of 18. She has performed across Europe, Egypt, and the US, most recently in Switzerland with Art on Ice. A Japanese and German American skater who hails from Chicago, IL, Schmidt approaches the ice as an artist. She holds a BFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute and is the founder of Dansu Wear, an ice fashion line extending her practice into form and design.
Aaron Singletary grew up in Pennsylvania skating for the Penguin Figure Skating Club and started his national competitive career training 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.
Vakhtang Murvanidze is a former competitive figure skater from Georgia and he represented his country twice at the Olympics. As a choreographer and skating skills teacher Vakhtang has worked with Alexei Mishin as his assistant and now coaches at the Ice House in Hackensack, New Jersey. As a professional skater he has performed in many international and touring shows. He has performed with ITNY (off and on) since 2003, when he participated in our proscenium stage performance at the Eisenhauer Hall at West Point.