NEW YORK — Aurora means dawn. At New York City Ballet, there are Auroras — the princess at the heart of “The Sleeping Beauty” — and then there is Indiana Woodward, a dancer of inherent lightness and ...

New Jersey Ballet’s full-length The Sleeping Beauty is a three act ballet that will take you on an engaging trip through the classic fairy tale. Full of dazzling variations set to Tchaikovsky’s ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. When Aurora makes her first appearance in SLEEPING BEAUTY, the audience usually ...

The Pennsylvania Ballet is opening its 54th season with a fairy tale classic. "The Sleeping Beauty" ballet is based on the iconic fairy tale that was adapted and made famous by Walt Disney studios.

BOSTON - As Larissa Ponomarenko prepared Boston Ballet dancers for “The Sleeping Beauty,” she recalled the thrill of dancing the lead role in 2009. “When Aurora enters is one of the most exciting ...

Sleeping Beauty, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa, has a delightful musical score by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. This romantic story ballet with a prologue and three acts was first performed in 1890 ...

The State Ballet Theatre of Russia, a professional company of 55 dancers touring the U.S. with a collage of full-length classical ballets, stopped in town Sunday for two performances of “The Sleeping ...

Like ballet companies around the world, the Tchaikovsky Ballet from Perm, Russia, cherishes “The Sleeping Beauty.” As a model of technique and style, this ballet choreographed by Marius Petipa in 1890 ...

YORK, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Ballet Academy is hard at work practicing their performance of "Sleeping Beauty." With a score written by Tchaikovsky in 1889, the ballet is based off of the 1697 Charles ...

The traditional Sleeping Beauty story presents cultural challenges to a contemporary audience — a stranger kissing an unconscious woman isn’t the heroic gesture it used to be viewed as. Thanks to ...

Hailing from Monaco, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo makes its Auditorium Theatre debut this weekend with “La Belle,” by choreographer and artistic director Jean-Christophe Maillot. Princess Caroline of ...