It’s a show that will go down in Olympic history; a limited amount of tickets to see Nottingham legends Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean perform on ice with the Olympic Flame in the National Ice Centre Gala will be available from 9am on Friday 18 May 2012.
As part of the Olympic Torch Relay through Nottingham, the National Ice Centre Ice Gala will take place on Thursday 28 June 2012 at 5:15pm.
City schools have now confirmed their attendance for the Ice Gala and seats have been booked and confirmed for twenty-two local schools.
The event is free to attend however; people will need to register for a ticket. Tickets are limited and are only available from the National Ice Centre Customer Services Office.
The Ice Gala will feature over two hundred skating stars from the National Ice Centre including performances from both local skaters and members of the GB Performance Team. It will culminate with Olympic and World Champions Torvill & Dean taking to the ice to perform a choreographed dance with the Olympic Flame.
The Ice Gala will be filmed by the BBC as part of their Olympic coverage and will be broadcast on a national level.
Public seating for the Ice Gala is unreserved and tickets for the event are free. Registration for tickets will commence at 9am on Friday 18 May 2012 and tickets will be distributed on a first come basis. A maximum of four tickets can be booked per person. Tickets are only available to obtain in person at the National Ice Centre Customer Services Office, Bolero Square, The Lace Market, Nottingham NG1 1LA.
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The National Ice Centre’s Learning Zone today celebrated UK Inspire Day by holding a special Family Skate for invited families.
UK Inspire Day is a celebration of the London 2012 Inspire programme which consists of over 2700 projects. Families across the UK have been inspired by the Games to do something special in their local communities.
Family Skate Plus is one of the exceptional projects to have been awarded the coveted Inspire mark and become part of the London 2012 Inspire programme that has already given ten million people across the UK an opportunity to join in with Games-inspired activity and try something new.
By the start of the London 2012 games over 200 families will have taken part in the Family Skate Plus programme learning to ice skate and creating activities to play as a family.
Nic Williams, Project Manager said: “It has been great to see so many families working together to not only learn to skate but build self-esteem and relationships with each other. Some of the families have been truly inspired through the programme.”
Seb Coe, Chair of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games said: ‘Family Skate Plus is one of over 2700 projects using the Inspire mark across the UK. I’d like to thank The National Ice Centre’s Learning Zone for all their support and hard work using the power of the Games to inspire change.”
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Last week, eleven Nottingham skaters took to the Lee Valley Ice Centre (Centre of Excellence for ice sports and ice skating in London and the South East) to compete in the Lee Valley IJS Figure Skating Competition.
They achieved the following results.
Novice Men – Joshua Brown, 2nd place
Novice Ladies – Emily Stuart, 2nd place
Novice Ladies – Bethan Whiteman, 6th place
Novice Ladies – Rose Harper, 9th place
Novice Ladies – Malika Sharshenbeava, 14th place (12 years – Achieved the Novice Test score to compete at the British Figure Skating Championships 2012/13)
Novice Ladies – Emma Lai, 27th place
Novice Ladies – Blue Bates-Cambridge, 28th place
Junior Ladies – Maxine Yu, 3rd place (14 years – Achieved the Junior Competitive Test Score to compete at the British Figure Skating Championships 2012/13. Maxine is the 2011/12 Novice British Champion)
Junior Ladies – Amy Harper, 15th place
Junior Ladies – Kershia Broughton, 16th place
Senior Men – Jamie Whiteman, 1st place (Short Programme)
Coach Joy Sutcliffe said “It was a very good competition and all skaters performed to the best of their ability. It was great to see two of the skaters reach the level required to achieve their pass mark which enables them to compete at the British Championships in November”.
This annual competition has been running since the International Judging System was introduced in Britain in 2006. The competition is one of three IJS competitions which lead up to the British Figure Skating Championships in November.
Well done to everyone who took part!
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The National Ice Centre in Nottingham will host a special ice skating gala event on Thursday 28 June 2012 with Nottingham legends Torvill & Dean taking to the ice in a one-of-a-kind performance to welcome the Olympic Flame to our City.
The event, which is free to attend with an issued ticket, will see Olympic and World Champions Torvill & Dean perform a choreographed dance on ice with the Olympic Flame.
Torvill & Dean, who are currently in Nottingham on the Dancing on Ice Tour said “We couldn’t be happier to be a part of the Olympic Torch Relay celebrations in our home town, we’ve been developing our choreography for the gala and we’re very excited to welcome the Olympic Flame to the National Ice Centre, where it all began for us.”
Next week, city schools can expect invitations to the event giving them the chance to confirm their attendance before tickets are made available to the public. Geoff Huckstep, Chief Executive at the National Ice Centre, said “We work closely with many City schools here at the National Ice Centre; we have hundreds of children attend classes as part of their school syllabus and many children on our Learn to Ice Skate programme. Torvill & Dean welcoming the Olympic Flame to the National Ice Centre is a significant event for Nottingham and we’d like to make sure local children get the chance to experience it.”
The event is free of charge and seating for the gala is unreserved however people will need to register for a ticket. Registration will commence on 18 May 2012 and tickets will be distributed on a first come basis. Full details on the gala and the ticket application process will be released closer to the time. For the latest news see our website www.National-Ice-Centre.com. Updates will also be available via Facebook and Twitter
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