While Kingston doesn’t have a major resident professional ballet company yet, dance studios like 5678 Dance Studio and Kingston School of Dance are nurturing the next generation of ballet performers. Now, a shimmering new production is taking that passion centre stage: Ballet of Lights Kingston. Inside Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, professional ballerinas in costumes fitted with fibre-optic lights reimagine fairytales like Sleeping Beauty with every luminous pirouette.
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Ballet of Lights in Kingston: Which story is being performed now?
Ballet of Lights: Sleeping Beauty in a Sparkling Show
You arrive at the hush before everything changes: Aurora suspended in enchanted sleep, the court stilled with her, and a familiar fairy-tale world held in luminous pause. In Ballet of Lights, that moment feels especially intimate—timeless enough to echo through ballet history, yet close enough that you can almost sense the breath returning as the spell begins to loosen. It is grace, stillness, and awakening in one scene, inviting you gently into its wonder.
There’s something mesmerising about seeing light and movement merge into a single language. With just five or six dancers, the production replaces grandeur with intimacy—every lift, leap, and turn amplified by costumes woven with light. The result is an abridged yet profoundly expressive performance, where technology doesn’t overpower artistry but extends its reach, illuminating gestures and emotions once hidden in shadow. Through its shimmering visuals and storytelling finesse, the experience bridges ballet’s rich heritage with a more curious, modern audience.
On selected dates over the coming months, Ballet of Lights is shining inside Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts. Seats are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis within each zone, so we recommend you arrive early.
There’s something mesmerising about seeing light and movement merge into a single language. With just five or six dancers, the production replaces grandeur with intimacy—every lift, leap, and turn amplified by costumes woven with light. The result is an abridged yet profoundly expressive performance, where technology doesn’t overpower artistry but extends its reach, illuminating gestures and emotions once hidden in shadow. Through its shimmering visuals and storytelling finesse, the experience bridges ballet’s rich heritage with a more curious, modern audience.
On selected dates over the coming months, Ballet of Lights is shining inside Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts. Seats are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis within each zone, so we recommend you arrive early.
19 December 2026 16:00 + more dates
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