A full-scale touring production of The Sleeping Beauty is set to sweep into downtown Dallas, bringing 40 professional dancers, more than 150 costumes, and Tchaikovsky's 19th-century score to the stage of the historic Majestic Theatre. The performance is scheduled for March 4, 2027, at the Elm Street venue, part of a national tour built around one of classical ballet's most enduring fairy tales.
The show comes from World Ballet Company, a Los Angeles-based touring outfit founded in 2015 by producers Sasha Gorskaya and Gulya Hartwick with a stated mission of making full-length classical ballet accessible across North America, according to Wikipedia. As reported by CultureMap Dallas, the Dallas engagement is scheduled as part of the company's 2026-2027 touring season, with the production designed to captivate both lifelong ballet fans and first-time theatergoers.
That newcomer-friendly pitch is not just marketing language. World Ballet Company audience surveys reported in 2024 and 2025 found that more than 60 percent of attendees at its nationwide performances were seeing a live classical ballet for the first time, per Pointe Magazine. The company tours full-scale productions of titles like Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and The Sleeping Beauty to somewhere between 150 and 200 U.S. cities annually, according to World Ballet Company's own account of its operations.
A Fairy Tale Built for the Stage
The Dallas production follows Tchaikovsky's original story, tracing Princess Aurora's splendid ball and the eventual triumph over the villainous Carabosse, per the seed event listing carried by CultureMap Dallas. The ballet premiered on January 15, 1890, at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, with choreography by Marius Petipa and a libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky adapted from Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tale, according to the Mariinsky Theatre's historical record.
Among the production's centerpiece sequences is the Act I Rose Adagio, widely regarded in dance history as one of the most technically demanding passages in classical ballet. The sequence requires the lead ballerina to hold prolonged balances on pointe while partnering in turn with four suitors, according to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's research on the score.
Visually, the touring production leans on original hand-crafted set designs by Sergei Novikov, paired with custom digital video projections and hand-sewn costuming, according to the City of Monroe, Louisiana's account of a separate World Ballet Company stop. The Dallas listing describes the production's own hand-crafted sets and multimedia effects, alongside a costume count exceeding 150 pieces for the cast of 40 dancers.
Staging Classical Dance Inside a 1921 Landmark
The venue hosting the performance carries its own history. The Majestic Theatre at 1925 Elm St. was built in 1921 by architect John Eberson and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 as the last surviving venue from Elm Street's historic Theater Row, according to Wikipedia's entry on the building. Originally constructed as a vaudeville house, the theater was gifted to the City of Dallas by the Hoblitzelle Foundation in 1976 and reopened as a municipal performing arts venue in 1983 following major restorations, per the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture, which lists the theater's seating capacity at 1,704.
World Ballet Company's touring calendar frequently threads multiple stops through North Texas in the same run, pairing Dallas engagements with nearby suburban venues such as Irving's Carpenter Hall, according to Event Tickets Center's listings for the region. That routing pattern gives area dance fans more than one shot at catching the production without leaving the metroplex.
As with any touring stage production, the Dallas performance remains subject to change due to weather or other concerns, per the event listing. Event photography associated with the Dallas listing is credited to World Ballet Company itself.
