Ballet Academy East (BAE)

Junior Summer Course is in full swing!

That’s a wrap on Day 1 of BAE’s 2026 Junior Summer Course! Great work dancers, we can’t wait to see all you will achieve over the next four weeks!

BAE’s Level 1 students were such a joy to watch on stage in “au début!” This demonstration of BAE’s Level 1 barrework was created by Darla Hoover, with music arranged by Kevin Carpenter, and is performed annually at our Spring Performance.

Darla Hoover Miho Nozawa

Here is a peek behind the curtain showing some of what goes on backstage, beautifully and knowingly captured by photographer, Rosalie O’Connor.

Rosalie O'Connor Photography Stacey Calvert Darla Hoover antoniocarmena Houston Odum Deborah Wingert Arkin Amy Page

The BAE Level 3 dancers have the honor every year of performing Rosine at the Spring Performance, which was choreographed by our beloved Jenna Lavin. We treasure this opportunity to have Jenna with us in spirit and to see our Level 3 dancers so beautifully rise to the occasion. Thank you to faculty member Cynthia Birdwell for her caring and faithful staging of this rite-of-passage ballet.

Cynthia Birdwell