One of the world’s leading ballet companies — Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet — is based right here in the city, making it the ideal spot to welcome an innovative and exciting ballet show like this one. Wearing magnificent costumes adorned in fibre-optic lights, ballerinas reimagine iconic fairytales at ‘Ballet of Lights’ in Winnipeg.
What is Ballet of Lights?
There’s something unmistakably magnetic about the way Ballet of Lights breathes new life into well-loved classics. This innovative production goes beyond the familiar, letting tales like Sleeping Beauty shimmer onstage through dancers whose costumes are woven with fibre-optic lights. With six ballerinas, the show distills the sweeping grandeur of traditional ballet into a compelling, hour-long spectacle, where imagination and dance travel hand in hand.
Ballet of Lights in Winnipeg: Which story is being performed now?
New ‘Ballet of Lights’ experiences are always on the horizon in Winnipeg, but for now, here are the shows that you can catch in the city this season.
Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty gathers its roots from centuries-old European fairy tales, shaped most memorably by the version from Charles Perrault and popularized by the Brothers Grimm. The familiar story of a princess cursed to sleep, the heartbreak of lost time, and the wonder of renewal taps into deep themes of hope and transformation. In ballet, these elements are richly realized through Tchaikovsky’s pre-recorded music, which underpins Ballet of Lights’ staging with both grandeur and emotional subtlety. Here, technology doesn’t overshadow tradition—it deepens it, as glowing costumes echo the dreamlike nature of the tale.
With incomparable elegance and gracefulness, a fairytale ballet sensation comes to Winnipeg, inviting you to experience the magic of timeless tales up close and under a new light. There are usually two back-to-back shows every night, with the first starting at 4pm and the later one at 6:30pm.
Doors open 30 minutes prior to the show start time and seats are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis in each zone, so try to get to the venue with some time to spare.