Sleeping Beauty will receive eleven performances through June 9 at the Met, followed by performances in Segerstrom Hall at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, California from July 20-22.

Kevin McKenzie, a former ABT soloist and now the company's artistic director, has previously choreographed Swan Lake and The Nutcracker and has staged Don Quixote (in collaboration with Susan Jones) for ABT.

Gelsey Kirkland is a former dancer with New York City Ballet and joined ABT as principal dancer in 1974. Since 1986 she has primarily taught and coached at ABT, the Royal Ballet School, English National Ballet and the Australian Ballet.