New York City’s leading center for complete ballet education, Ballet Academy East (BAE) today announced its 13th annual Winter Performance series taking place at New York Live Arts, March 1-3, 2019. Approximately 135 students from BAE’s Pre-Professional Division will perform four new ballets by BAE alumni Ariel Rose (Miami City Ballet) and Christopher McDaniel (Dance Theatre of Harlem), current BAE student Alma Reiss-Navarre, and BAE School Principal Jenna Lavin. The program also includes two works by Balanchine: Valse-Fantaisie staged by BAE’s Pre-Professional Division Artistic Director Darla Hoover and the “Elégie” section of Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3 staged by Deborah Wingert (Faculty at Juilliard and Manhattan Youth Ballet).