Joe Johnson and Karina Manta have been ice dancing partners for more than a decade.

On a recent Thursday morning, they were spinning around the ice at the Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers, rehearsing a segment from the "Jazz Nutcracker," choreographed by noted dancer Kolton Krouse.

“It’s a fun spin on the classic to put our own style into it,” Manta said.

The two performed the segment at the tree lighting at Bryant Park, and will do the same at Riverbank State Park’s celebration on Saturday.

“Like the ballet dancers, we skate to "The Nutcracker" a lot this time of year, so it’s nice to mix it up,” Johnson said.

The Ice Theatre of New York was the first nonprofit ice dance company in the country, the focus on developing ice dancing as one of the performing arts.

“It’s dance on ice. We do a lot of collaboration with choreographers from the dance and performance art world as well as developing our own ice choreographers,” Moira North, founder and artistic director, said.

The Ice Theatre’s season is full of performances and events, including its New Works and Young Artists program, where public school kids from across the five boroughs see a professional performance and then hit the ice themselves for lessons.

“We’re hoping that it inspires the next generation of young skaters and also gives them an experience in seeing how many things go into a production because we have the costuming and the music and the performance itself, and administration of that, so we are giving them insight into the art world as well,” Sarah France, director of outreach and a professional ensemble performer with Ice Theatre, said.

To find out more about future performances and outreach programs, head to the Ice Theatre's website.