ICE DANCE INTERNATIONAL

Edward Villella

Linda Villella

Douglas Webster

Debbie Gordon (RIP)

Dick Button

 Douglas Webster is the Executive and Artistic director of Ice Dance International (IDI), a professional performing arts figure skating company. The company recently completed a New England tour of outdoor pop up and live stream experiences. He has created and produced all special events for IDI including eight residencies across the US, two American Public Television specials, two national tours, performances at The Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Aspen Gay Ski Week, Fenway Park, WGBH’s Open Studio, The National Baseball Hall of Fame, the Fenimore Museum, Rockefeller Center, and Strawbery Banke Museum. He also established SKATE 360, The IDI School of Performance Skating .

Prior to founding Ice Dance International in 2014, Webster served as the artistic director of Ice Theatre of New York, leading the company on two national tours. During his 23 year history with ITNY, Douglas created over 30 pieces of repertory and also collaborated with significant choreographers from the world of dance. From 2003-2012 he worked on choreography teams for skating companies, including Disney on Ice, Holiday on Ice, Stars on Ice, The Autostadt, and the Sun Valley Ice Show. His choreography has been seen in television shows including Winter Solstice on Ice in Finland, Skating with the Stars for ABC TV, and Sterren Dansen op Het IJs in The Netherlands. From 2014-16 Douglas served as the Creative Director for a Disson Skating/ABC television series called “Shall We Dance on Ice,” a show that paired a cast of champion ice dancers, including Olympic Champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White, with world class ballroom dancers from  Dancing with the Stars. The shows were taped in front of a live audience. Many skating celebrities have skated Webster’s work including Olympic Champion Sarah Hughes, Sasha Cohen, Ryan Bradley, Alissa Czisny, Lucinda Ruh, Lu Chen, Elena Leonova and Andrei Khvalko, Sinead and john Kerr, Keegan Messing, and Kim Navarro and Brent Bommentre. 

As an educator, Webster served as the founding artistic director of the Salt Lake City Sports Complex when it was built for the Olympics. Recently, he has been staff for US Figure Skating’s Dance Camp, High Performance Camp, Synchro Summit, and Components Camp; a guest on PSA’s webinar panel on interpretation; and staff for ‘Grassroots to Champions’ national clinics. In 2020 he ran IDI’s first virtual Skate 360 school that was endorsed by the PSA. He has judged many of the Young Artist Showcase Finals and continues to serve as judge in the exciting new series presented by American ice Theater. Webster has been nominated for both Professional Skaters Association Awards, the Paul McGrath (twice) and the F. Ritter Shumway. Douglas has judged the PSA’s US Open twice in 2019 and 2021. Webster also serves as the Founding Artistic Director of Labrie Family Skate at Puddle Dock Pond in Portsmouth, NH.