Ice theatre

This article focuses on ice theatre as a competitive discipline for amateur or recreational skaters.

These companies are typically organized as not-for-profit and provide community outreach and education programs.

Often it is also helpful for a team to be connected with a skating club, which they represent, in order to receive funding and support.

In addition, each team must compete at a certain level, either Basic Skills, Preliminary, Open, Novice, Junior, Senior, or Adult.

Finally, each routine will most likely have props to help act out the theme as well as a set, to transport the audience to the place and time being portrayed on the ice.

Each team must only wear black, from neck to ankle, with hair in pony tail and no visible makeup.

Currently, each season's rules for ice theatre competitions are set as the result of a collaboration between coaches of participating teams.

During a competition, skaters typically wear make-up to create a more dazzling look for themselves and show off the character or theme they are portraying.

[citation needed] Trophée International d’Occitane and La Griffe d'Argent are a couple notable French competitions.

[3][4][citation needed] The Annual International Theatre on Ice Competition was held in various US cities for fifteen years.

[8][9] The first worlds competition was held in Toulouse, France in April 2010 called the Nations Cup with almost 500 skaters from seven countries.