UPCOMING EVENTS
Art Meets Ice:
Come Watch Our 2-City Performance Series
Cleveland & Chicago | March 7-8, 2025
About the Shows
Act I: AIT’s full-length show re:member – a powerful exploration of human identity and modern dance on ice.
Act II: Performances by local skating artists, showcasing the incredible talent in the Cleveland & Chicago communities.
Skate Jam: After the show, come out and join us on the ice for a skate jam! Make sure to bring your own skates.
Get your tickets now and be part of a night that celebrates creativity, emotion, and ice skating.
Cleveland, OH
Date: March 7, 2025 @ 7:00 PM
Location: Winterhurst Ice Arena, 14740 Lakewood Heights Blvd, Lakewood, OH 44107
Schedule:
- Act I: re:member Performance @ 7:00 PM
- Act II: Local Artistic Showcase @ 8:00 PM
- Skate Jam (Bring your own skates) @ 9:00-9:45 PM
Chicago, IL
Date: March 8, 2025 @ 7:30 PM
Location: Edge Ice Arena, 735 E Jefferson St, Bensenville, IL 60106
Schedule:
- Act I: re:member Performance @ 7:30 PM
- Act II: Local Artistic Showcase @ 8:30 PM
- Skate Jam (Bring your own skates) @ 9:15-10:00 PM
- *Featuring Ice Semble Company performances too!
Community Outreach
This event offers a unique opportunity for local artistic skaters to showcase their talents. The second act features an open platform for soloists, duets, trios, and ensembles to present their artistic pieces—whether polished or still in progress. This creative celebration on ice invites all skaters to participate in the post-show Skate Jam, where audience members and performers can skate together.
Volunteers Needed:
We are also seeking volunteers to help with various tasks at both performances. Volunteers will play a key role in making this event a success. If you or a friend or family member is interested in helping, please fill out this form below:
Young Artists Showcase – New Format!
#YAS2025 Coming Soon in April 2025
The #YAS2025 season is coming soon! APPLY BELOW for a chance to be selected from the pool of applicants around the world to be named as one of the 3 Finalists, and invited to choreograph an ensemble of professional skaters at the American Contemporary Skating Festival in Boston, MA from June 12-15, 2025.
For more information on YAS, go to our YAS homepage.
Deep Dive 2025: Virtual Class Dates Announced
Our 2025 virtual Deep Dive Series returns in March with special guest Heather Paige, Synchronized Coaching & Choreography Consultant & U.S. Figure Skating Synchro Coach Developer, will be leading the series on “Synchro Choreo Tools.” The classes will be held on zoom over four sessions on Tuesdays from 8:30-10 PM ET.
DATES: March 18, April 8, April 15, April 22 — registration coming soon!
Join us for Our Global Educational Events in 2025
Calling all professional skaters & choreographers, kids & friends, and adult skaters — we have an event for everyone!
Contemporary Skating Alliance
AIT was honored to be part of the 3rd annual event with over 30 skating artists from around the world gathered in Monéteau, France, for the 2024 Performing Arts Project, hosted by the Contemporary Skating Alliance (CSA) from October 31 to November 3. The event, held at Patinoire Cyberglace, celebrated the evolution of contemporary skating through workshops led by CSA member companies, including Moins 5, IceLab Leipzig, Studio Maja Luther, Ice Theatre of Stockholm, Bolero Ice Company, American Ice Theatre, and Nordic Ice Theatre. The project also featured an optional choreography presentation led by Maja Luther, offering a unique platform for skaters to collaborate, innovate, and expand the artistic boundaries of skating.
AIT was represented by Co-Executive Directors, Garrett Kling & Kate McSwain. Kling & McSwain led a class for the Contemporary Skating Alliance global community on AIT’s philosophy of movement, improv and choreo tools.
AIT Seminars at Other Rinks – Around the World!
AIT Seminar in Belgium
AIT traveled to Ghent, Belgium for a series of seminars for all ages in November. Big thanks to Maxime Hanssens of Max Impact for hosting us! We loved sharing contemporary skating with this community.
AIT Seminars in Greensville / Indianapolis
AIT traveled to Indianapolis, IN in September for a seminar hosted by the Winter Club of Indianapolis and Circe City Theatre on Ice.
The Greenville Figure Skating Club and Beverly Gates hosted AIT for a seminar in October. The two-day seminar featured 6 Ways of the Spine, improv tools, and a choreography combo.
6 Ways of the Spine – Fall 2024 Graduates
Congratulations to our first two graduate classes of the 6 Ways of the Spine Class!
Our Summer graduates include Jordan Bailey, Jacqueline Benson, Jolie Black, Paula Jagodzinska, Miabella Lovell, BB McKain, Jimmy Morgan, Sarah Nolan, Whitney Overchuk, Devin Prasatek, and Berlin Sohn. Learn more about these graduates at this blog post.
Our Fall graduates include Cameron Claire, Maxime Hanssens, Pauline Irman, Alex Martin, Elizabeth Misson, Emma Morse, Laura Pfenninger, Gillian Robidas, Peggy Sue Grant and Jessica Wasch. Read their blog post here.
6 Ways of the Spine™ is AIT’s core body movement philosophy, and this advanced, online AIT certification and college-level training course for figure skating coaches and choreographers as well as professional figure skaters. It offers comprehensive training in 3-dimensional movement exercises and cutting-edge teaching tools for expanded expertise in the field. With this certification, coaches & skaters will improve their teaching methods for skating skills combined with core body movement.
AIT Satellite Updates
AIT Boston
AIT Boston will hold their Winter Seminar on Saturday, February 22 from 4-6pm at Stoneham Arena. This seminar is for skaters ages 8+ and levels Freeskate 1+. This seminar will be led by AIT Boston Director Kate McSwain and Assistant Director Jimmy Morgan! The focus of this seminar will be directed towards learning an on ice combo and being able to understand each movement. Skaters will also be given tips on remembering movements as they learn them. We hope to see you there!
The AIT BOSTON Fall Seminar was led by AIT Boston Assistant Director, Jimmy Morgan, and AIT New Hampshire Professional Company Member, Alexa DerBoghosian and was held Sunday, October 13 at the Emmons Horrigan O’Neil Memorial Rink.
AIT Cleveland
AIT Cleveland performed at the SK8 to Elimin8 Cancer Celebration on Ice Show on Thursday, December 12 at the Cleveland Foundation Rink in Public Square. AIT Cleveland is directed and choreographed by Director Elizabeth Misson and company skaters performing include Chloe O’Brien, Victoria Harmon, Marissa Diaz, Emily Kovalcik, and Elizabeth Misson. Photo by Don Gerda of Cleveland Clinic.
AIT Cleveland held their fall seminar on Oct 5 at the Alice Noble Ice Arena led by AIT Cleveland Director Elizabeth Misson.
Join us for our AIT Cleveland Winter Seminar to learn how to improve your balance and skating skills to tackle more complex choreography and movement! Joining us for this seminar is guest artist Kim Volante. Kim is a USFS Gold Medalist in Ice Dance and specializes in teaching skating skills to individual skaters as well as Synchronized Skating and Theatre on Ice teams. Whether you are a singles skater, ice dancer, synchro skater or Theatre on Ice skater, we will cover a variety of skill exercises that will give you skills that you can take away and immediately apply to your own training regimen! AIT Cleveland Director, Elizabeth Misson will also lead exercises on the 6 Ways of the Spine™ to integrate core body movement techniques with your existing skating skills (and, of course, we will learn a fun choreography combo at the end!). This class is tailored for everyone from beginner to intermediate and advanced skaters. This AIT Seminar is for skaters ages 8+ and level Freeskate 1+ — ALL are welcome!
AIT Minneapolis-St. Paul
AIT MSP was represented by AIT Director Garrett Kling & Lauren Gizinski at the Sk8 to Elimin8 Cancer Show in St. Louis Park, MN on Saturday, October 12. They skated a duet to Chopin choreographed by Kling.
AIT held their winter seminar on Friday, October 25 at the Richfield Ice Arena. The seminar, celebrating the fun and spooky that Halloween has to offer, was led by AIT MSP Director Garrett Kling and Assistant Director Cameron Claire.
AIT MSP Professional Company performed two shows in December. They performed their company piece at the Holiday Exhibition hosted by the Great River Figure Skating Club on December 6 and then at the AIT MSP Pop Up event on Sunday, December 8 at the St. Louis Park Outdoor Rink. AIT MSP company includes Cameron Claire, Seebie Baga, Robin Van Amber, LorRae Portner, Sage FIlmore, Isabelle Desens, Grace Boezinger and Maisie Stover.
The AIT MSP Professional Company will perform at the Southern Figure Skating Club Show on Sunday, February 16.
The AIT Winter Seminar will be held on Friday, February 14. Registration coming soon! For more information, visit the AIT MSP homepage.
AIT New Hampshire
AIT New Hampshire held their fall seminar on November 16 with a Ways of the Spine edge class, moving through a variety of improv prompts focused on exploring muscle tension and varying tempo in improv with AIT New Hampshire director Gillian Robidas. At the end, a choreography combo was taught by AIT New Hampshire Company member and MCT graduate Natalie Schoonover.
Check back soon for more info on the AIT New Hampshire Winter Seminar!