Ballet

Sleeping Beauty

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*The Sleeping Beauty* is Tchaikovsky’s late-19th-century story ballet, built as a prologue and three acts around court ritual, fairy-tale causality, and a long suspension of time. Based on Perrault’s tale and shaped by Petipa’s classical architecture, it helped set the template for grand ballet as repertory rather than occasion. In New York, the work carries a specific legacy through George Balanchine’s 1991 staging for New York City Ballet, which anchored it in the city’s institutional ballet life. Its real subject is order—how ceremony, technique, and narrative lock together.