PRESS INQUIRES

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IDI Cast Member since 2020

Collin is originally from the Chicago area and first started skating at the age of 6. He is  a former team USA athlete and competed internationally and nationally. Notable highlights in his career include the silver medal at the US Championships and being selected to the Junior World team.  After his competitive career, he completed his degree in communications and finance, but later returned back to the ice to perform and coach. Collin has been an IDI company member since 2020.

IDI Cast Member since 2017.

 From Detroit, Alissa Czisny is an American former competitive figure skater. She is the 2010 Grand Prix Final champion, a two-time Skate Canada champion (2005, 2010), the 2011 Skate America champion, and a two-time U.S. national champion (2009, 2011).  As a professional skater, Alissa is a long time and current cast member of Stars on Ice, she has worked on the choreography team of the new Cirque De Soleil skating shows, and has performed in productions all over the world. 

IDI Cast Member since 2015

Originally from Buffalo, NY, Carly Donowick has skated professionally in over 45 countries. After a short competitive career in ice dance representing the U.S. in several international competitions, Carly turned professional at 18 years old. She has since skated with companies such as Holiday on Ice, Disney on Ice, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Russian Ice Stars, Magic on Ice, Hot Ice, and was runner up in the French TV show “ICE SHOW.” She has skated with Ice Dance International since 2015 and is thrilled to be returning to the frozen stage with a company that means so much to her.

Originally from Quebec City, Canada, Jean-Simon is a former Canadian National Team member and competed nationally and internationally. Following his competitive career, he went on to perform in ice shows around the world for various companies including Royal Caribbean International, Holiday on Ice, Hot Ice and Disney on Ice. In 2017, he started coaching in Vancouver, BC before relocating in Miami, FL where he currently lives. Jean-Simon is excited to join the cast of Ice Dance International’s GRACE for the Fall 2022 tour.

IDI Cast Member since 2021

Karina Manta has been skating alongside her partner Joe Johnson since 2014.  Together they are the first LGBTQ team to compete on Team USA for four years, becoming international medalists and Grand Prix competitors. Since retiring from competitive skating, she has toured with the Cirque du Soleil show AXEL and performed as a professional for the UK television series, Dancing on Ice, which she and her celebrity partner won in the 2021-22 season. Karina is the author of the young adult memoir, On Top of Glass (Knopf 2021) about growing up Queer in figure skating.  

IDI Cast Member since 2020     

Kseniya was born in Odessa, Ukraine. She started skating at the age of five and trained with the Figure Skating Team of Ukraine from the age of eleven. She is a Ukrainian Novice Champion, ISU Junior Grand Prix and international competitor for Ukraine, five time US National competitor and US Sectional medalist. She has been an Ice Dance International cast member since 2020. She, with Collin Brubaker, is the 2022 US Open Professional Skating Championships Grand Champion, and the 2021 Skater’s Skater award winner. Kseniya holds a PSA Senior Rating in Choreography and a Bachelor’s degree in Olympic Sports and Management from the Pedagogical University in Kiev. She based at Fox Valley Ice Arena in Geneva, Illinois. 

IDI Cast Member since 2017

From Wayland MA, Lara grew up watching her mom dance on stage. When at 5, twirling in her tutu transitioned into a love for ice skating, she balanced a rigorous on ice schedule with training at New England Ballet, and performing in various ballets as a member with the Dance Prism company. Following a national competitive career in the pairs discipline with her brother Neill, Lara joined her first show, and has been skating professionally for the past ten years.  Since joining the professional skating world, Lara has been able to combine her passion with her love of travel, skating around the world as both a soloist and principal pair skater with companies such as Rand Productions, Holiday on Ice, Willy Bietak Productions with Royal Caribbean, Stageworks Worldwide Entertainment’s Hot Ice, Dynamic Ice, Illusion on Ice, IDI and Woodstock Productions. Lara and Neill performed in the Radio City Christmas Show through the 2022 Holiday Season.

IDI Cast Member since 2017

Neill is from Wayland, Massachusetts and has been skating professionally in shows for 11 years. Throughout his amateur career, Neill competed as a pairs team with his sister, Lara, becoming nationally ranked before beginning their professional careers together. Neill has skated starring roles for world-renowned production companies including Holiday on Ice, Robin Cousins' ICE, Wheeler Productions, Dynamic Ice Shows, Royal Caribbean [in association with Willy Bietak Productions], Woodstock Ice Productions, and most recently in the Radio City Rockette's Christmas Spectacular in New York City with his sister Lara. He is thrilled to be working with Ice Dance International again in his fifth year as a company member.

First year IDI Cast Member and Understudy

Bethann Weick hails from a rural homestead in Dorchester, NH.  She grew up training in the mid-Atlantic region, and is a former Senior ladies competitor who currently works as a coach and choreographer.  Bethann began performing professionally in 2021, and is thrilled to now be with IDI. Bethann is also part of IDI's Vintage Skaters at Strawbery Banke Museum during the Holiday Season